Batman: Legacy

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Batman: Legacy is a story arc in the Batman comic book series, which is a sequel to another Batman story arc, Batman: Contagion and also serves as a follow-up to Batman: Knightfall story arc. It concerns the returning outbreak of a lethal disease in Gotham City, and Batman's attempts to combat it with his closest allies by discovering its origin in the Middle East. There, Batman faces two of his deadliest foes: Ra's Al Ghul, who created the virus centuries ago, and Bane, the man who crippled him. The Gotham Knights travel throughout the world as they race to stop The League of Assasins from releasing the pure strain of the virus across the globe, and Gotham itself would be a place for the rematch between the Dark Knight and Bane. The events of this lead into Batman: Cataclysm (though there was a gap of over a year between the two story arcs), which itself leads into No Man's Land.

Legacy reading order:

• Prelude: Shadow of the Bat #53
• Prelude: Batman #533
• Part 1: Detective Comics #700
• Part 2: Catwoman #36
• Part 3: Robin #32
• Part 4: Shadow of the Bat #54
• Part 5: Batman #534
• Part 6: Detective Comics #701
• Part 7: Robin #33 (The ending of this issue leads directly into Nightwing #1)
• Epilogue: Detective Comics #702