Stories by @jeanpaulvalley

Hush

Thomas Elliot came from a wealthy family, one of Gotham's founding families, and became a great surgeon, like the late Thomas Wayne. However, he has always had a great hatred towards the Wayne family and therefore towards their last representative, Bruce, whose friend he nevertheless claims to have always been. Helping the Riddler, one of his unofficial patients, recover from his cancer by finding and stealing the use of a Lazarus pit from Ra's Al Ghul, the surgeon discovers Batman's true identity through Nigma's healing enlightenment. Together, the two super-villains foment a plot unlike any the Dark Knight has ever faced in order to defeat him for good and to reduce him... to Hush !

The Court of Owls

The Course of the Owls is considered only an urban legend, from a nursery rhyme, by most of the population of Gotham. However, they are very real and have plans to soon get rid of the city's vigilantes via their Talons, their faithfull assassins bringing back to life through stealing technology from Mister Freeze. However, a former army, Kate Kane, understanding that her family is involved in this case, decides to investigate and exploited her faculties by becoming a vigilante herself. The Court will have to understand that no reign is eternal...

Professor Pyg

The Circus of the Strange is a traveling show from Europe, known to harbor monstrosities beyond belief. One evening, a group of young people decide to go and see for themselves at the circus, after closing time, to see how they do their tricks. However, they will discover that everything is horribly real and that the owner of the circus dislike unexpected visitors. Evening will turn into total horror, while "Professor Pyg" will do everything to get his hands on them in order to operate on them to make them living and "perfect" dolls !

Man-Bat

Dr. Kirk Langstrom is a brilliant WayneEntreprise researcher, happily married to one of his colleagues, Francine. However, Kirk gradually begins to lose his hearing and since he doesn't want to be condemned to no longer hear the sound of his wife's voice, he set to work on a cure. Desperate, he began working with samples of bat DNA, before testing the serum on himself. This turned him into a horrible humanoid bat with an uncontrollable thirst for blood ! Kirk regained his true appearance the next morning but, despite the horrors that his alter-ego can cause, he secretly continued to take serum, because it temporarily allows him to completely cover his hearing and because he feels good as a winged creature ! Wanting to create a cure, the good Doctor created a new monster that terrorized Gotham: Man-Bat !

Harley Quinn

The Joker has seen many different psychiatrists during his many internments at Arkham, but none like this young beginner, Doctor Harleen Quinzel, who is fascinated by him. The prince of crime will, over the sessions, corrupt her and make her fall into madness, this one ending up helping him to escape and join him in his gang. After falling into the same vat of chemical that changed her "pudding" years ago, she proved her love and devotion to the supervillain, beginning numerous misdeeds with him, despite being more measured. However, Gotham City is clearly not ready for the arrival of Harley Quinn !

Bane

On the militaristic island of Santa Prisca, there is a prison comparable to Hell: Pena Duro. There, the wife of a "terrorist" gave birth to a boy, who according to the law of the island had to endure the sentence of his fugitive father ! Very quickly, the child had to learn to fend for himself and defend himself. However, he found a few friends, and as time passed, he became a legend in prison. When he came of age, he became the test subject for a new super-drug, Venom, of which he was the only one to survive, this product being able to make him even stronger ! Later, he managed to escape and led a veritable revolution to overthrow the tyrant. However, anyone in their right mind should fear the moment "Bane" turns his gaze to the rest of the world !

Clayface

Basil Karlo was a huge actor, twice Oscar winner, but who went crazy when he learned that the film that launched his career was going to be remade. Dressing like the killer from the movie he played and whose nickname he took up, he went on set and killed a few actors, before being arrested by the Dynamic Duo and interned. Years later, while in Arkham, he becomes the subject of an illegal experiment that changes him into a clay creature that can look like anyone and create deadly weapons with his arms. Fascinated, Hugo Strange let him go to see what he would do. Basil headed to Panessa Studios, to wreak havoc on the set of the new, even worse, sequel to the remake of his beloved film. Now, no one will could deny that there is only one Clayface !

Gotham City : The Worst Gang War

Gotham City has been a giant powder keg for years, but this time it's all about to en in flames. The biggest gang bosses, the Joker, the Penguin and Two-Face, clash with their hundreds of men all over town and the police are powerless against it. All of this was fomented by a rising gangster, Roman Sionis, with the aim of taking over their operations once it was over, and who has now also come up with a nickname for himself. Previous gangsters conflicts in Gotham's history now seem like little playground brawls compared to this war of supervillains, which only Batman could stop...provided he didn't fall first !

Deathstroke

Slade Wilson has been used to complicated contracts for years, which he loves, because it makes things more interesting. The greatest of these challenges comes when a businesswoman named Miranda Tate hires her to go to Gotham and eliminate Batman. No challenge is too big for him and it is with a lot of enthusiasm for a fight that he hopes exceptional that Deathstroke comes to challenge the Bat !

The Mad Hatter

Jervis Tetch is a bizarre but brilliant researcher, fascinated by Lewis Carrol's work, that he regularly quotes. Working for a subsidiary of WayneEnterprise, he creates technology that can control people's will by being hidden in hats, but keeps it to himself. In love with Alice, a colleague who is already in a relationship, Jervis will see his psyche fall as everyone laughs at him, giving birth to one of the most unhealthy criminals in Gotham : The Mad Hatter !

Solomon Grundy

At the end of the 19th century, Cyrus Gold was an honest merchant who one day killed someone accidentally, before drowning in the swamp. Over a century later, due to vodoo magic and chemicals illegally dumped there, something else has awakened. Having no memory of who he was, only animated by a little nursery rhyme whose name he took, the terrible super-zombie impossible to kill for good that's Solomon Grundy is coming to Gotham for the 1st time !

Mister Freeze

All love stories are tragedies. The good Doctor Victor Fries had everything to become one of the greatest researchers in the world, but he preferred doing everything possible to save this wife's life, Nora, who was suffering from an incurable disease. However, his employer, Feris Boyle, cruelly intervened at the most important moment, nearly killing Victor, seemingly also condemning his wife whom he had just frozen. However, he mutated, no longer being able to survive temperatures above 0 degrees. He created for himself a highter armor as well as a freezing armament. Boyle will soon learn that revenge is never such a cold dish as it's with Mister Freeze!

Deadshot

Coming from a wealthy family, Floyd Lawton and his brother were abused by their horrible father and their indifferent mother. One day, they wanted to escape from them, but Floyd, scared and having bad support, accidentally killed his brother, before fleeing, broken. He later joined the army and did everything to become the best world's shooter. After being dismissed, he became a mercenary, and he does everything to meet the needs of his son, whom he raises alone, but his father find them and will do everything to take is revenge. However, you have to be suicidal to want revenge on Deadshot !

Ra's al Ghul and The League of Assassins

Little is known of the past of the man who later called himself "The Demon's Head". From the desert of the Middle East to the mountains of Nepal, discover how the largest organization of assassins in the world was founded and how the legend of Ra's Al Ghul was created !

The Riddler

The reputation of the Dark Knight is no longer to be proven, he is truly the greatest detective in the world... except for one person ! In the shadows, a simple member of the scientific police, Eddie Nashton, decides to give free rein to his madness. By taking a colorful costume and a villain nickname, the Riddler has only one goal : to prove to everyone that he is better than Batman !

Killer Croc

There are monsters who are deeply and then there are those who are monsters because all their lives they have been insulted as such because of their difference... this is the case of Waylon. After difficulted years, his particular mutation making him look like a monster, the one who worked before in a circus nevertheless tries to live honestly. But when the only man who was ever nice to him was wantonly murdered by gangsters, Jones let the beast in him take over. He made sewers his territory, this gangsters his prey, deciding to adopt the name of Killer Croc in terrifying way !

Poison Ivy

Pamela Isley had everything to remain an innocent assistant, too shy and afraid to rebel, but everything changed that night. Witness of a crime made by her superior, Doctor Woodrue, Pamela wanted to flee but he tried to kill her by pushing her into the result of their joint work. However, what came out later was much worse. Possessing now great powers of seduction and being able to control the plants, Pamela decided never to let herself be done again and went on a vendetta against all those who harmed her by taking the name of Poison Ivy !

Two-Face

Every universe must have a tragic character, except the universe of the Dark Knight abounds in it, but none is as unjust as that of the former prosecutor of Gotham. As he was close to bringing down the underworld that plagues the city, an attack on his person disfigures him for life... in addition to an attack on his wife. With his Psyche greatly infected, Dent decides to let fate control his actions. He takes up arms to take Falcone's place, becoming Two-Face !

The Scarecrow

Discover the origins of the self-proclaimed master of fear. After developing his first terror toxin, Doctor Jonathan Crane invites several people to a large abandoned cabin outside Gotham for a false pretense. They won't have time to understand this before they will be the first victims of the infamous Scarecrow !

The Penguin

Here are the criminal origins of the last descendant of one of the five families that once founded Gotham, the Cobbelpots. Basically a simple bar assistant, he managed to get closer to Gotham's Godfather of crime, Carmine Falcone. From there, he learned very quickly how to climb the social ladder of crime, eliminating all competition in various ways to become the richest bird in Gotham !