Hush Era (2002-2003) Batman #608, published in just the third month after the conclusion of the Bruce Wayne: Fugitive storyline, featured the debut of a new creative team, with Jim Lee on pencils and Jeph Loeb on scripts. A heavy promotional campaign was launched, but no one could predict the level of success that would be achieved. That first issue sold out almost immediately, as did reprints, as did subsequent issues. The new creative team made a Batman title the top-selling title in the United States for the first time in a decade. Jim Lee had sold his Wildstorm Studios to DC Comics not only for a ton of money but for the opportunity to work again as an artist, including work for mainstream DC Comics. But he had acquired a reputation for slowness. When he agreed to be a part of the new creative team on Batman, with Jeph Loeb writing, several issues had to be completed before DC would solicit them and a bet was made with Jim Lee against his completing his work on time. Jim Lee won that bet, and his year-long contract was extended before the first six issues were published for another six months, also to be written by Jeph Loeb.

IMAGE	TITLE	DESCRIPTION	STATUS
1. Absolution
	Batman: Absolution [hardcover]	J.M. DeMatteis script; painted art and cover by Brian Ashmore; 96 pages; hardcover; cover-dated January 2003 [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	0
	Batman: Absolution [softcover]	softcover; cover-dated December 2003 [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	0
2. Family
Batman: Family #1: The Tracker, Batman: Family #2: Athena, Batman: Family #3: Bugg & Dr. Excess, Batman: Family #4: Suicide King, Batman: Family #5: Freeway, Batman: Family #6: The Technician, Batman: Family #7: Mr. Fun, Batman: Family #8: Blackout: John Francis Moore script
Batman: Family #1: The Tracker, Batman: Family #2: Athena, Batman: Family #3: Bugg & Dr. Excess, Batman: Family #4: Suicide King, Batman: Family #5: Freeway, Batman: Family #6: The Technician, Batman: Family #8: Blackout: Stefano Gaudiano & Rick Hoberg art
Batman: Family #1: The Tracker, Batman: Family #2: Athena, Batman: Family #3: Bugg & Dr. Excess, Batman: Family #4: Suicide King, Batman: Family #5: Freeway, Batman: Family #7: Mr. Fun, Batman: Family #8: Blackout: Stefano Gaudiano & Rick Hoberg cover
	Batman: Family #1: The Tracker	38 pages; cover-dated December 2002	0
Batman: Family #2: Athena, Batman: Family #3: Bugg & Dr. Excess, Batman: Family #4: Suicide King, Batman: Family #5: Freeway: cover-dated January 2003
	Batman: Family #2: Athena		0
	Batman: Family #3: Bugg & Dr. Excess		0
	Batman: Family #4: Suicide King		0
	Batman: Family #5: Freeway		0
Batman: Family #6: The Technician, Batman: Family #7: Mr. Fun, Batman: Family #8: Blackout: cover-dated February 2003
	Batman: Family #6: The Technician	Rick Hoberg cover	0
	Batman: Family #7: Mr. Fun	Steve Leiber and Stefano Gaudiano art	0
	Batman: Family #8: Blackout	38 pages	0
3. Hush
Batman #608-619, Batman: Hush Double Feature: Jim Lee & Scott Williams cover
Batman #608-619, the 6-page "Interlude" to Hush (from Wizard: The Comics Magazine #0: "Hush" storyline; Jeph Loeb script; Jim Lee pencils; Scott Williams inks
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Batman #608	Batman saves a kidnapped child from Killer Croc, but Catwoman steals the ransom money, controlled by Poison Ivy; Batman's batrope is cut while he swings over the city, causing a serious fall; cover-dated December 2002 [READ MATT MARTIN'S REVIEW]	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Batman #609	Poison Ivy hands the ransom money over to a mystery villain; after the Huntress saves him, Batman calls on his childhood friend, the doctor Thomas Elliot, who successfully performs brain surgery	0
	Batman: Hush Double Feature	collects Batman #608-609	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Batman #610	Batman talks to Killer Croc and allows the villain to escape; Batman's tire is shot out, causing a crash; Killer Croc encounters Catwoman while searching for Poison Ivy, then gets captured; Batman and Catwoman kiss	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Batman #611	Bruce Wayne visits Metropolis and The Daily Planet; Batman visits LexCorp and Talia Head; Batman and Catwoman confront Poison Ivy, but Superman appears in Ivy's thrall	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Batman #612	Batman and Catwoman flee Superman, then work together to battle Superman and break Ivy's spell; Batman, Catwoman, Superman, and Krypto stop Poison Ivy; published on Wednesday, 26 February 2003	0
	Batman: Hush Volume One	collects Batman #608-612 plus four new pages and two pages previously seen exclusively on DC Comics' website; Jeph Loeb hardcover; hardcover [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	1
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Batman #613	at an opera attended by Bruce Wayne, Thomas Elliot, Selina Kyle, and Dr. Leslie Thompkins, Harley Quinn stages a robbery; in the alley outside the opera house, Batman finds the Joker standing over a dead Thomas Elliot; published on Wednesday, 26 March 2003	0
	Batman #614	Batman almost kills the Joker but is stopped by Jim Gordon; Hush, watching, flips Two-Face's coin	0
	Batman #615	Bruce Wayne speaks at Thomas Elliot's funeral; Nightwing encourages Batman to trust Catwoman and to reveal his secret identity to her; Batman and Nightwing defeat the Riddler, finding ash from the Lazarus Pit there; Harvey Dent, dressed as Hush, gets the Joker out of prison while Batman reveals his identity to Catwoman	0
	Batman #616	Batman kidnaps Talia Head; returning to the Batcave, Batman finds a sword of Ra's al Ghul in a computer; Harvey Dent reveals that he called Jim Gordon, telling Jim to show up in the alley where the Joker apparently killed Thomas Elliot; Batman battles Ra's Al Ghul; Lady Shiva, working for Ra's, beats Catwoman and frees Talia	0
the 6-page "Interlude" to Hush (from Wizard: The Comics Magazine #0, cover-dated September 2003; by the same creators as the storyline; featuring an injured Batman recovering in the Batcave with Catwoman and Alfred) occurs here
	Batman #617	Robin confronts Catwoman in the Batcave, under orders from Batman to do so; Batmain tails the departing Catwoman, who fights with the Huntress; the Scarecrow appears; a man dressed as Hush reveals himself to be a resurrected Jason Todd	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Batman #618	Batman confronts the resurrected Jason Todd, realizing that he is an imposter; Batman confronts Harold, his former computer technician, who is killed by the gun of Hush, leading to their confrontation; published on Wednesday, 27 August 2003	0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Batman #619	Batman battles Hush, revealed to by Thomas Elliot; Jim Gordon and Harvey Dent arrive; Dent's bullets send Hush into the river but Batman cannot find the body; Batman shows Superman how subliminals in his Batcave computers made him think of Thomas Elliot while wounded at the storyline's beginning; Batman confronts the Riddler and learns of the conspiracy of villains, of how Thomas Elliot masterminded it, and of the Riddler knowing Batman's identity; Batman breaks up with Catwoman; cover-dated November 2003	0
	Batman #619 [heroes cover]	sports a Jim Lee cover showing all the heroic characters together	0
	Batman #619 [villains cover]	sports a Jim Lee cover showing all the villainous characters together	0
Larger Version Available At left, the wraparound "heroes" alternate cover to Batman #619. At right, the wraparound "villains" alternate cover to Batman #619. Larger Version Available
	Batman #619 [second printing]	sports a new Jim Lee cover; rushed to press within a month of the first print (with its three covers)	0
	Batman: Hush Volume Two	collects Batman #613-619 plus the 6-page "Interlude" from Wizard: The Comics Magazine #0; Jim Lee introduction; also includes sketches by Jim Lee; hardcover [REVIEW AND PURCHASE THIS BOOK]	1
4. Arkham Asylum: Living Hell
Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1-6: no data entered
	Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #1		0
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	Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #3		0
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	Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #5		0
	Arkham Asylum: Living Hell #6	cover-dated December 2003	0
5. Tenses
Batman: Tenses #1-2: Joe Casey script; Cully Hamner pencils and cover; Dexter Vines inks; prestige format
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Batman: Tenses #1	published on Wednesday, 27 August 2003; cover-dated October 2003	0
	Batman: Tenses #2	cover-dated November 2003	0
DETECTIVE COMICS
Detective Comics #775-786: no data entered
	Detective Comics #775		0
	Detective Comics #776		0
	Detective Comics #777		0
	Detective Comics #778		0
	Detective Comics #779		0
	Detective Comics #780	published on Wednesday, 5 March 2003	0
	Detective Comics #781	published on Wednesday, 2 April 2003	0
	Detective Comics #782		0
	Detective Comics #783		0
	Detective Comics #784		0
	Detective Comics #785		0
	Detective Comics #786		0
BATMAN: GOTHAM NIGHTS
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Batman: Gotham Knights #34	no writing or interior art data entered	0
Batman: Gotham Knights #35-45: no data entered
	Batman: Gotham Knights #35		0
	Batman: Gotham Knights #36		0
	Batman: Gotham Knights #37		0
	Batman: Gotham Knights #38		0
	Batman: Gotham Knights #39	published on Wednesday, 19 March 2003	0
	Batman: Gotham Knights #40		0
	Batman: Gotham Knights #41		0
	Batman: Gotham Knights #42		0
	Batman: Gotham Knights #43		0
	Batman: Gotham Knights #44	published on Wednesday, 27 August 2003	0
	Batman: Gotham Knights #45		0
ROBIN
Robin (second series) #107-118: no data entered
	Robin (second series) #107		0
	Robin (second series) #108		0
	Robin (second series) #109		0
	Robin (second series) #110		0
	Robin (second series) #111		0
	Robin (second series) #112	published on Wednesday, 19 March 2003	0
	Robin (second series) #113		0
	Robin (second series) #114		0
	Robin (second series) #115		0
	Robin (second series) #116		0
	Robin (second series) #117		0
	Robin (second series) #118		0
AZRAEL
Azrael: Agent of the Bat #95-100: no data entered
	Azrael: Agent of the Bat #95		0
	Azrael: Agent of the Bat #96		0
	Azrael: Agent of the Bat #97		0
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	Azrael: Agent of the Bat #99		0
	Azrael: Agent of the Bat #100	final issue	0
NIGHTWING
Nightwing #74-85: no data entered
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Nightwing #74		0
	Nightwing #75		0
	Nightwing #76		0
	Nightwing #77		0
	Nightwing #78		0
	Nightwing #79	published on Wednesday, 12 March 2003	0
	Nightwing #80		0
	Nightwing #81		0
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	Nightwing #83		0
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	Nightwing #85		0
BIRDS OF PREY
Birds of Prey #48-59: no data entered
	Birds of Prey #48		0
	Birds of Prey #49		0
	Birds of Prey #50		0
	Birds of Prey #51		0
	Birds of Prey #52		0
	Birds of Prey #53	published on Wednesday, 19 March 2003	0
	Birds of Prey #54		0
	Birds of Prey #55		0
	Birds of Prey #56		0
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BATGIRL
Batgirl #33-44: no data entered
	Batgirl #33		0
	Batgirl #34		0
	Batgirl #35		0
	Batgirl #36		0
	Batgirl #37		0
	Batgirl #38	published on Wednesday, 19 March 2003	0
	Batgirl #39		0
	Batgirl #40		0
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	Batgirl #44		0
HARLEY QUINN
Harley Quinn #25-36: no data entered
	Harley Quinn #25		0
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	Harley Quinn #30	published on Wednesday, 12 March 2003	0
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	Harley Quinn #36		0
CATWOMAN
Catwoman (third series) #13-23: no data entered
	Catwoman (third series) #13		0
	Catwoman (third series) #14		0
	Catwoman (third series) #15		0
	Catwoman (third series) #16	published on Wednesday, 26 February 2003	0
	Catwoman (third series) #17	published on Wednesday, 26 March 2003	0
	Catwoman (third series) #18		0
without titles or indicia Larger Version Available	Catwoman (third series) #19		0
	Catwoman (third series) #20		0
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	Catwoman (third series) #23		0
GOTHAM CENTRAL
Gotham Central #1-11: no data entered
	Gotham Central #1		0
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	Batman: Gotham Central	collects Gotham Central #1-5; softcover	0
	Gotham Central #6		0
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	Gotham Central #8		0
	Gotham Central #9		0
	Gotham Central #10		0
	Gotham Central #11		0

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