Warning ! Spoilers before forBatman : Detective Comics # 1040

In the latest issue ofBatman : Detective Comics , a careless moment in the Dark Knight ’s past has made his secret individuality not so secret .   As late issues have seen Bruce Wayne implicate in the slaying of some of his neighbors , he ’s elected to twist himself in so that his name can be cleared .   During his time behind streak for a weekend , Bruce Wayne   finds himself talking to a humans who on the face of it acknowledge that he and Batman are one and the same , and it ’s all thanks to one of Batman ’s mostclassic conflicts with the Joker .

Since   it ’s rather hard for Batman to work when both he and his secret indistinguishability are want by Gotham Police , he elect to get his name cleared by spending meter   in jail while Oracle abide by all the necessary pieces of evidence for the investigators to clear Bruce ’s name . In the lag , the GCPD order Wayne in a holding cellphone over the weekend in the   previous issue ofDetective Comics ,   from writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Dan Mora . In locking , Wayne was sitting next to a rather drunk man who drop the bombshell that he knowsBruce Wayne and Batman are the same individual .

Comic book art: Batman faces the four Robins: Nightwing Dick Grayson, Red Hood Jason Todd, Red Robin Tim Drake, and Robin Damian Wayne.

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Apparently , this random Gothamite had spent a nighttime intoxicated and alone twelvemonth prior when he behave witness to Batman fighting the Joker , wearing his older blue and gray-headed costume while thwart the Clown Prince of Crime’sclassic Laughing Fish scheme . The aftermath saw Batman on the very same rooftop as this drunk , though   Bruce had no idea he was there . This lead to a moment of sloppiness on the Dark Knight ’s part , expose and compromise his identity due to one of Joker ’s weirdest plans ( prove to copyright poisoned Pisces the Fishes with his font on them ) .

However , it seems as though this rather intoxicated military personnel is n’t much of a threat to Batman and his secret identity being exposed . Not only was it several years ago , but he was inebriated that night as well . Combined with his inebriated state behind stripe , it does n’t come along as though he has a lot of credibleness   and he   himself expresses doubt about what it was he visualise . Furthermore , once Monday arrive , the man has sober up and has no idea who Bruce Wayne is or what they even talked about .

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However , the human being did say that it made sense thatBruce Wayne would be Batman . In his creative thinker , ugly things have happened to Bruce Wayne his entire aliveness and he " seems like the form of guy cable who ’d make it so that horrible thing keep happening . " In his drunken state , this human beings seemed to   imply that the Batman persona is a self - bring down curse , and there may be a ringing of Sojourner Truth to that perspective . Bad things do happen to the Dark Knight on a moderately consistent cornerstone .

In any case , whether he was compromise or not , the fact that it was Joker ’s Laughing Fish scheme that exposed the Dark Knight ’s identity is definitely a barbarian addition to one of the most classic and ridiculousBatman : Detective Comicsstories .

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