Batman: Contagion

"Contagion"
"Contagion"
	Cover of Batman: Contagion (1996), trade paperback collected edition, art by Rodolfo Damaggio
Publisher	DC Comics
Publication date	March – April 1996
Genre	Superhero; Crossover;
Title(s)
	Azrael #15-16; Batman #529-532; The Batman Chronicles #4; Batman: Shadow of the Bat #48-49; Catwoman (vol. 2) #31-32; Detective Comics #695-696; Robin (vol. 2) #27-28;
Main character(s)	Batman; Robin; Catwoman; Azrael
Batman: Contagion	ISBN 1-56389-293-6

Contagion is the name of a story arc that ran through the various Batman comic book series. It concerns the outbreak of a lethal disease in Gotham City, and Batman's attempts to combat it. The events of this story led into Batman: Legacy and Batman: Cataclysm, which itself leads into Batman: No Man's Land.^[1] It ran from March through April 1996.

Much of the plot centers around a gated community in the middle of Gotham City, whose wealthy residents believe they can protect themselves from the plague by sealing themselves inside, only to discover that one of their number is the plague's first carrier. In this the story parallels the plot of Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Masque of the Red Death, which one of the community's dying residents mentions.

^ Beatty, Scott (2008). "Batman". In Dougall, Alastair (ed.). The DC Comics Encyclopedia. London: Dorling Kindersley. pp. 40–44. ISBN 978-0-7566-4119-1.

[dc-ency-1] Beatty, Scott (2008). "Batman". In Dougall, Alastair (ed.). The DC Comics Encyclopedia. London: Dorling Kindersley. pp. 40–44. ISBN 978-0-7566-4119-1.

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