The Penguin is released from prison on parole, and claims to have completely reformed. Nonetheless, Batman insists that he is pulling something, and has the Penguin under constant surveillance to find out what. However, Penguin is romantically seeing a woman whom he met through the mail and shares a passion for birds, just like he does.
She insists that for them to work, the Penguin must give up his life of crime completely, and he professes to Batman that he has gone legitimate with an umbrella factory. When Batman sees several known felons entering the building, he bursts in to investigate, and after fighting the warehouse of thugs, confronts the Penguin. The Penguin is forced to reveal that although his business was legitimate, he has been breaking the law.
His employees are all ex-cons who have a lot of trouble getting steady work, and he has been hiring them as a sympathetic gesture. This, however, counts as "consorting with known felons," which is a violation of his parole. Although the Penguin does go back to jail, Batman personally explains the matter to the prison authorities and to Penguin's partner, who soon visits Penguin in prison.
Cancel Create Link. Disable this feature for this session. Rows: Columns:. Enter the URL for the tweet you want to embed. Story Arcs. The first 7 annuals were reprints of select stories from the late 50's and early 60's and contained no new stories.
There is an 18 year gap between the release of Batman annual 7 and 8. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Writers Mike W. During their struggle, one of the guests shows up and attacks them. Rene Cesar, reveals himself as the former lover of Monica and the father of Jake as a result of their affair.
With this revelation of an incestuous relationship, Rene also reveals that he is a descendant of Jerry Swanson, the original builder of Slade Manor, who had been betrayed by Deacon Slade, the first owner of the place, after Swanson had an affair with his wife. Cesar makes one final confession and reveals himself as Monica's killer, ending his personal vendetta against the Slade family for the wrongs done to his ancestors. In the final part of his scheme, Cesar plans to activate a mechanism that will blow the house's foundations, making it collapse into the gorge, but first he must get rid of Batman.
Cesar ties Batman and throws him through the window from which Monica was killed. During the fall, Batman breaks free from the ropes, but he would have died if he wasn't grabbed by the big monster of Slade Manor.
The monster grabs Batman's cape and takes him to the caverns below the building, where he explains that he is not a monster, but in fact the assistant of the original builder, who has lived for ages in the caves thanks to the magic of the place. He explains that Slade Manor is built upon a sacred place for the Indians, which is the real reason for the curse. Batman notices that Cesar has started to blow the foundations of the building and he hurries to the place to evacuate all the guests, except for Cesar and Jake, who are still on the top tower and both of them die once the building collapses into the gorge.
In a cloud of smoke and dust that comes from the collapsed building, the giant shape of a demon bursts out and disappears shortly afterwards, ending the curse of Slade Manor for good. Batman only noticed that the immortal assistant was trying to prevent the house from collapsing, but he also disappeared when the house went to hell. Finally, Batman leaves the guests at dawn and informs them that Bruce Wayne will be waiting for them at the nearest police station.
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