

Hurt as they try to escape Arkham Asylum after the Black Glove's plan to kill Bruce Wayne fails. Lane is next seen piloting the Batcopter for Dr.

Lane-Batman proclaims that Batman is finished. Batman meets Lane who is watching on the other side of a fence. He fears that his years of training might not be enough to save him from the ultimate evil, if such a thing is really out there in the shadows. Batman gets up and begins thinking about his life and the direction it's taking. As Bane-Batman is about to crush Batman's head, Gordon and Farelli come in and shoot Bane-Batman in the head. Gordon meanwhile forces a cop named Officer Farelli to talk and reveal to him what is going on. Batman himself begins to relive the nightmare of that experiment but manages to escape from his shackles by dislocating his shoulder.īatman proceeds to knock out Lane with a punch, but then runs into Bane-Batman. Lane himself had participated in the isolation experiment. He is also a former police recruit trained and emotionally scarred in order to become a replacement Batman. Batman deduces Sleeper's identity to be Lane, a man whose family is said to have been killed by Satanists. where Batman once participated in the Isolation Experiment (see The Three Ghosts of Batman). The room is a chamber far below Gotham P.D. While Sleeper tortures Batman, Bruce slowly begins to piece things together. Batman then faces Sleeper carrying a drill in a vaguely familiar chamber. Sleeper then revives Batman and puts him in a chair and binds him with shackles. He relives the night when he was partly responsible for the death of Joe Chill. Batman lies on the roof top and experiences a flashback from deeply buried memories. The third Batman shoots the real Batman in the chest, who begins to suffer a heart attack. Batman arrives at the rooftop and fights with the third Batman. Bruce tells Alfred that he is going to see what is going on and to tell Jezebel that his parachute veered off course. Meanwhile, Bruce is skydiving with Jezebel Jet when he sees the Bat Signal. James Gordon tries to negotiate with him, but he captures Gordon and takes him to the roof where he lights the Bat Signal. Gordon bursts in to stop him, but the third Batman shows him a Police badge. He begins spraying the headquarters with sleeping gas. Batman later has a vision in which Damian Wayne tells him that the third Batman sleeper is the most dangerous of all. Luckily, a hooker takes him to the Penthouse of an address he gives her. Years later, Batman fights the Bane-Batman and is almost killed when the Bane-Batman stomps on his back. The first Batman is a marksman who uses a gun, the second is the Bane Batman who uses Bane's- Venom and Hugo Strange's monster serum and the third Batman is a man who sells his soul to Satan. Many years ago, Batman has a vision in which he encounters three Batmen who are 'figures' of what Batman believes will happen if he ever cheats on his war on crime.

Story Arc Michael Lane as the third Batman So they chose police recruits then psychologically scarred them in order to make them into Batmen. Hurt, that Batman's most likely motivation for fighting crime was a great tragedy in his life. Hurt to create 'replacement' Batmen if the original Batman should perish. After Batman left the project, Vane began to fear that Batman may not be around for a long time and began thinking of a way to replace him. During that time, Commissioner Gordon was replaced by Commissioner Vane. The experiment was conducted by the insane Dr. In a pre- Crisis Golden Age story, Batman participates in an isolation chamber experiment which involved him being trapped inside a chamber for long periods of time. Note: This page describes the current Azrael, Michael Lane, for the former Azrael, see Jean-Paul Valley.
