Absolute Batman #4 (DC Comics, 2025)
Absolute Batman #4 (January 2025), published by DC Comics, titled "The Zoo Part 4". Take a more detailed look into the history of Bruce Wayne and his obsession with engineering things inspired by bats. Bruce works out the bugs as he crafts a Batman suit, weapons, and blows things up with R.C. cars.
Absolute Batman #4 Story Summary
Continuing the backstory from Absolute Batman #3, this issue dives deeper into the history of Bruce Wayne and his evolution into the vigilante, Batman.
Readers get a peek at an early version of Batman, who appears to have homemade Wolverine claws. He leaps into a group of thugs and bites them with bat-fangs.
Bruce rethinks his approach after being disappointed with his tactics. He lifts weights and conjures up a plan to stop the flow of guns and drugs into Gotham City from the source. He attacks 18-wheelers loaded with narcotics in a tunnel with a remote-controlled car and punches out the criminals when they stumble out of their destroyed trucks.
The story flashes back to an earlier part of Bruce's life, as a boy, when he built a special bridge inspired by bats and shows his father.
Back in the present, Bruce uses the same engineering ingenuity to create his Batman suit and a variety of weapons.
In between flashbacks, Bruce confronts the man who killed his father in court.
He leaps from a building in the Batman suit and sets the stage for action in Absolute Batman #5.
Absolute Batman #4 Creative Team
- Plot: Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta
- Script: Scott Snyder
- Artist: Gabriel Hernández Walta
- Colorist: Frank Martin
- Letterer: Clayton Cowles
- Editor: Katie Kubert
- Executive Editor: Chris Conroy
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