Derek Powers hires Shriek, a former sound engineer-turned-supervillain, as part of an elaborate scheme to run Bruce Wayne out of his shared control over Wayne-Powers.

Inque is freed by a lovesick worker at the cryogenics plant where she is being held. Trapped in her mutated form, she seeks to attain the chemicals that will allow her to once again regain her human shape, and get revenge on Batman and the “mysterious old man” who aids him.

Batman goes up against a new, seemingly-invulnerable foe called the Repeller, who uses technology similar to a prototype that Wayne-Powers’ medical division has been developing.

A new vigilante who calls himself Payback begins taking revenge on the tormentors of several troubled teenagers, all of whom are in the same therapy group. When Terry goes undercover in the group to find the culprit, he begins to suspect the doctor running the sessions, but Payback’s real identity proves to be someone nobody […]

A gossip reporter acquires the technology to become incorporeal and becomes the ultimate Peeping Tom. When he discovers Batman’s identity, he threatens to reveal it on national television, but soon discovers the technology is having an adverse effect on his body.