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Issue: Batman: False Faces #[nn]
Publication Date: April 2009
 
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Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [swirl]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 02/11/2009
Volume: none
Pages: 164
ISBN: 9781401222284
UPC/EAN: 978140122228451499
Price: $16.99 CAD
$14.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 28 (7 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
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Binding: Softcover
Publishing Format: Collected Edition
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False Faces

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False Faces

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[untitled]

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False Faces

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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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This is all Kurt Busiek's fault
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[untitled]

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Batman; Matches Malone
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FlagBatman #588 [Direct Sales] published April 2001
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Batman; Matches Malone
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Close Before Striking Chapter One

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Batman [Bruce Wayne; "Matches" Malone]; Nightwing [Batman; Dick Grayson]; Oracle; "Matches" Malone; Ventriloquist
Using the "Matches" Malone cover, Batman shuts down Ventriloquist's gun running operation. Ventriloquist puts out a contract on "Matches." Oracle calls the cave looking for Batman, surprised to see him there since "Matches" was just shot in a bar in Gotham.
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[untitled]

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Batman; Matches Malone
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FlagBatman #589 [Direct Sales] published May 2001
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Close Before Striking Chapter Two

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Batman [Bruce Wayne] (also in flashback); Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Oracle; "Matches" Malone (dies, also in flashback); Ventriloquist; Jim Gordon (in flashback)
Batman reveals he "borrowed" the "Matches" ID from a supposedly dead arsonist. Finding the dying "Matches" at the bar, Batman slips into that persona and sets out to "get" Ventriloquist.
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FlagBatman #589 [Direct Sales] published May 2001
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[untitled]

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FlagBatman #590 [Direct Sales] published June 2001
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Close Before Striking Chapter Three

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Batman [Bruce Wayne; Matches Malone]; Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Oracle; Ventriloquist
Batman tracks the Ventriloquist, intent on killing him. As the physical conflict goes on, he fights an inner battle between his persona and "Matches". In the end he is able to shrug off the "Matches" persona and just take Ventriloquist into custody.
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[untitled]

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Batman; Mad Hatter
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FlagDetective Comics #787 [Direct Sales] published December 2003
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Mimsy Were the Borogoves

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Batman; Harvey Bullock; Francine Langstrom; Kirk Langstrom; Mad Hatter
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FlagDetective Comics #787 [Direct Sales] published December 2003
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[untitled]

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FlagWonder Woman #160 [Direct Sales] published September 2000
was Clayface: 1, Wonder Woman: 0 [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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FlagWonder Woman #160 [Direct Sales] published September 2000
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A Piece of You Chapter One

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Wonder Woman; Clayface [also impersonating Cheetah]; Troia [Donna Troy]; Argent
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FlagWonder Woman #160 [Direct Sales] published September 2000
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[untitled]

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Wonder Woman; Donna Troy; Clayface
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FlagWonder Woman #161 [Direct Sales] published October 2000
was Clayface Craves... Wonder Woman [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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FlagWonder Woman #161 [Direct Sales] published October 2000
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A Piece of You Chapter Two

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Wonder Woman; Clayface [Basil Karlo]; Troia [Donna Troy]; Nightwing; Robin [Tim Drake]
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FlagWonder Woman #161 [Direct Sales] published October 2000
was A Piece of You, Part II [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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[untitled]

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FlagBatman: Gotham City Secret Files #1 published April 2000
was Batman Gotham City [Credits on Interior Page(s)]
 
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FlagBatman: Gotham City Secret Files #1 published April 2000
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Skullduggery

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Skeleton [also as Joker; Riddler; Mr. Freeze] (introduction)
Somebody is posing as other Batman villains to set up Bruce Wayne.
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FlagBatman: Gotham City Secret Files #1 published April 2000
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Back Cover

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