THE KANE AFFAIR On an island in the South Atlantic, an old man babbles about a master plan and a snake that will eat the world. Batwoman’s current case–investigating the murder of three marines in Gotham City by a criminal known as Johnny Valentine at the behest of a group of Argentine criminals–has led her on a chase to Kane’s Kolossal Karnival. The clue Valentine left at the scene was an ouroboros pendant, and Colonel Kane notes the symmetry. The Kane family has a lot of history in this place…Once upon a time, the fiery twenty-something iconoclast heartbreaker Kathy Webb met the rich forty-something Nathan Kane, and they fell in love. He bought her the funfair that became Kane’s Kolossal Karnival as a present. Eventually they married, but the Kane family was cursed, so the story goes, and she was left a widow, with all the accouterments of their life together and nothing but solitude ahead of her. Then she was approached by Agent-33, on behalf of an organization called Spyral. They wanted her to work for them on the mystery of the Batman’s secret identity. Searching for adrenaline, for meaning, for belonging, Kathy Kane accepted. In Argentina in the present, meanwhile, Batman and El Gaucho have been kidnapped by the villains El Sombrero and Scorpiana. Sombrero has three blind street children trapped in a rapidly-filling vat of water, and he will kill all three unless the heroes fight to the death. To sweeten the pot, he informs them that El Gaucho, before his costumed career, was the man who initially recruited Kathy for Spyral, leading to her death. Kathy studied Batman, and then trained to create a Batwoman persona, to make him want to include her in his life, if only to prove he was better at it than she was. She managed to get in, but he was careful about his secret identity, she alienated Robin, and in fact Batman managed to work her real name out first. Infuriated, she planned to scrap the mission and just marry Batman, but when she tracked down Agent-Zero, he ordered her to break it off, revealing his secret: he was the Nazi master spy Doctor Dedalus, and also her estranged father. She would break it off with Batman or tell him her deep dark secret. This meeting over with, she broke up with Batman, leaving a shadow in the heart of the Bat-Family. Batwoman was later killed by men working for the Sensei, Batman always believed. However, he is apparently so enraged that he is ready to engage with Gaucho. Sombrero and Scorpiana watch with glee, knowing that already, an international incident in the South Atlantic is about to draw three countries into a war. Sombrero gloats about “a death-trap as big as the world”. In Gotham, a clue in braille in the bodies of the three Marines has thrown up a word–“Oroboro”, which is a codename for a doomsday weapon with links to Nazi superhuman research, hidden scientists, classified documents, and a British spy known as the Hood. Batwoman, meanwhile has chased Johnny Valentine through the Ghost Train, to come face-to-face with his back-up–a woman dressed as Kathy Kane’s Batwoman. Batwoman defeats her, and vows to re-open the case of Kathy Kane’s death. In Argentina, Batman manages to shock the monitor on the Gaucho’s vitals, short-circuiting the death-trap containing the kids. He also tells the villains that he is coming for them. Scorpiana makes her getaway, and Sombrero asks her to give his regards to the “Maestro”. On an island in the South Atlantic, an old man babbles about a master plan and a snake that will eat the world. At his gesture of command, it begins snowing…
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Sometimes pre-order items are late and do not meet the release dates we have posted on our website. This is beyond our control, and we will update our pages with the new release dates if/when we are supplied new release dates from the item manufacturer or our distributor.
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Comic Books, Graphic Novels & Funko POPs: We charge in full when you place your order.
Iron Studios Statues: We charge a non-refundable deposit of 10% for Iron Studios Statues. And then offer a number of other ways for you to complete your purchase before the item is delivered to you. These are:
Once-off, in full
Our Iron Studios Payment Plan
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FIELD TRIP! The students of Strange Academy are off on their first field trip. Hope everyone got their permission slips in! They’re off to Alvi & Iric’s home--ASGARD--where you’ll something truly shocking about these twins! Emily hasn’t fully recovered from the events of #6… will she find something in Asgard to help her heal?