COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
Vengeance of Bane
STORY ARC:
None
RELEASE DATE:
November, 1992
COVER DATE:
January, 1993
WRITER:
Charles 'Chuck' Dixon
ARTIST:
Graham Nolan
INKER:
Eduardo Barreto
COLORS:
Adrienne Roy
LETTERS:
Bill Oakley
EDITORS:
Dennis 'Denny' O'Neil; Scott Peterson
COVER:
Glenn Fabry
PRICE: $2.50 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Bane; Batman (Bruce Wayne); Bird; Harvey Bullock; Commissioner James Gordon;
Renée Montoya; Trogg
INTERIOR ART:
PLOT:
On the island of Santa Prisca, a pregnant woman and her unborn child were sentenced to fulfill the life imprisonment of her husband at Pena Duro. After she died, when he was six, the boy was placed in the general population of one of the most brutal prisons on earth.
After being thrown from a catwalk during a fight between two inmates the boy was in a coma for thirty-one days. He killed the man that caused his fall, earning him the name Bane. Pena Duro's warden placed him in solitary confinement, vowing he'd have hair on his chest before he saw sunlight again.
After ten years, Bane was released back into population. He learned to read in six languages. When not reading, he pushed his body to the limits of perfection. Bane, having never lived outside Pena Duro, learned of Gotham City and of Batman through an inmate. The vision of a bat was his only fear for the decade he was in solitary confinement. He vowed to destroy the Batman.
After killing over thirty men, Bane was subject to medical experiment. He was dosed with a synthesized drug called Venom, which increased his already impeccable strength and physique. Bane's plan was to "die," getting him thrown into the ocean for the sharks like his mother years before. It worked. He returned to hold the warden hostage. He was given a helicopter, and escaped with three of his followers, who'd stolen the formula for Venom.
Bane was a free man for the first time. They traveled north to Gotham City, where he baited the Batman with a gang slaughter. Bane began watching the Batman, learning the Batman. Their first confrontation was non-confrontational; Batman did not appear to take Bane's threat seriously.
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