BATMAN I, JOKER 1 (1998)

by Bob Hall Elseworlds. In the year 2083, the legend of the Batman sparks a strange and deadly religion based on the Dark Knight. As the city-state of Gotham readies itself for the highlight of the religious calendar — the annual death race between the religion's leader and a group of sacrificial "lambs" surgically altered to resemble Batman's greatest foes — one would-be Joker tries to break the cycle and become the true inheritor of the heroic mantle of the Bat. 48pg, FC