Batman: Legacy

Batman: Legacy

Main character(s) Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Ra's al Ghul, Bane, Oracle, Huntress, Talia al Ghul, Catwomen, Azrael Creative team Writer(s) Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, Alan Grant Penciller(s) Graham Nolan, Jim Aparo, Staz Johnson, Dave Taylor, Jim Balent, Mike Wieringo Inker(s) Scott Hanna, Stan Woch, Bill Stenkiewicz, Rob Leigh, Ray McCarthy, Bob Smith Letterer(s) John Costanza, Tim Harkins, Todd Klein, Bill Oakley, Albert de Guzman Colorist(s) Gloria Vasquez, Adrienne Roy, Pamela Rambo, Lee Loughridge, Buzz Setzer, Greg Wright

"Legacy" is a crossover story arc in the Batman comic book series, which is a sequel to another Batman story arc, "Contagion" and also serves as a follow-up to the "Knightfall" story arc.

TagLine: "The stakes are higher than they've ever been as Batman and his outnumbered forces race to solve a riddle from the distant past that threatens to erase all of mankind's tomorrow."

The story concerns the returning outbreak of a lethal disease in Gotham City, and Batman's attempts to combat it with his closest allies by discovering its origin in the Middle East. The disease is known as the Apocalypse Plague, the Filovirus, Ebola Gulf A or in its more popular nickname: The Clench. An unlikely alliance searches the world for a possible cure including: Batman, Robin, Oracle, Nightwing, Huntress, Azrael, and Catwoman.

There, Batman faces two of his deadliest foes: Ra's al Ghul, who created the virus centuries ago, and Bane, the man who crippled him. The Gotham Knights travel throughout the world as they race to stop The League of Assassins from releasing the pure strain of the virus across the globe, and Gotham itself would be a place for the rematch between the Dark Knight and Bane. Ra's al Ghul continues his search for the suitable mate for his daughter, Talia al Ghul. Meanwhile Batman leads the chase for a cure to save the life of Robin and the fate of the world. The events of this lead into "Batman: Cataclysm" (though there was a gap of over a year between the two story arcs), which itself leads into "No Man's Land."