Batman Giant (Walmart) #5

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UNPLANNED OBSOLESCENCE After beating up a thug, Batman learns that Killer Moth is the behind robberies of televisions from warehouses. Batman still fears him as he's outsmarted him many times despite being cornered, nor ever saw him resigning to defeat. After finding out his next probable target, Batman surveys Warehouse 36 and learns that someone is there after hearing noise from inside it.  Batman remembers that Killer Moth's guile made him better and then overhears gunshots ringing out. While he hopes that his adversary didn't see him enter, he finds that he's been shot dead by a security guard who states that he got startled and killed him. He informs him who he shot and reminisces how Killer Moth had outsmarted him by ambushing with bears, despite being lured into a false lair.   Batman ascertains the guard is Killer Moth after he talks about fighting off three bears, something he never told him. While trying to arrest him, he gets fired upon by Moth but stuns him with a light grenade. Moth surrenders and states he just wanted to quit his life of crime as it was getting too expensive to evade getting caught and his health was declining, which is why he chose to stole the televisions for easy money.   As to the corpse dressed in his outfit, Moth states that it's his mentor Night Moon who died of old age and had nothing left. He dressed him up and shot his corpse to make it look like that Killer Moth was killed, but Batman spoilt his plans. A year after having turned him in, Bruce visits the Arkham Asylum fitted with redesigned cells. Bruce is glad that he never saw the defeat in Killer Moth's eyes, as he's now happily living in the asylum. JOKER'S WILD AKA "WHACHA GOT IN THE TRUNK?" The story starts with Joker coming up to Tony Finks, the owner of all comedy clubs in Gotham and later holding him at gunpoint after stating the he knew him once. The Joker reminisces that he was an aspiring comedian who got the chance to perform at one of his comedy clubs named Awkward Smiles. During a performance by another comedian, Tony made him deliver chicken strips to a customer, warning he won't be able to perform otherwise. As another customer demanded chicken strips, Joker who felt humiliated assured he will bring them.   During his performance, the Joker states that he used to be a family doctor but is currently unemployed and was also an orphan. As he tries to make a joke about his forgetfulness and asks the audience what he can't remember, the customer who demanded his order earlier states chicken strips. The Joker then tells Tony to put on handcuffs while he reminds him that he had promised him a performance in a month at Joker's Wild, the premier comedy club in Gotham, after telling him he needed to act like a joker instead of focusing on jokes as what matters is what someone's got under their hood.   The Joker spent the next month trying to act properly like a joker based on Tom's advice, but when the tine came he found out that Tom didn't even schedule him to perform at Joker's Wild. After having flopped at his comedy career and being evicted, he decided to bomb himself in his car, but it was towed away to the impound lot next to the Awkward Smiles comedy club. During one of his performances, he told people to not laugh at him as he knew he was a failure and his car with the dynamite had been towed, But after stating they needed to be careful whose car they tow, he bombed the impound lot and was hailed as a legend by the club's patrons.   Joker while getting Tony inside his car's trunk tells him that he was right that this cruel world needs a joker, but what really matters is what one has got in the trunk and not under the hood. After locking him inside the turnk, the Joker drives away in the car. THE COURT OF OWLS PART 5 - FACE THE COURT This story is reprinted from Batman (Volume 2) #5. ELEGY PART 4 - RUBATO! This story is reprinted from Detective Comics #857. RISE OF RAPTOR PART 1 This story is reprinted from Nightwing (Volume 4) #7.