Source: thegothamarchives.com

3. Batman: Contagion

Included Titles: Batman: Shadow of the Bat # 48-49, Detective Comics # 695-696, Robin # 27-28, Catwoman # 31-32, Azrael # 15-16, and Batman # 529

Disease panics were big in the late nineties and early 2000s. And also, Gotham City is a horrible place to live that goes through constant disasters. Like, a few years after this it would get hit by a massive earthquake. But in this specific story, a horrible plague of disease in unleashed upon Gotham city and it’s up to the Bat-Family to stop it.

Including Catwoman and Azrael, who both had books at the time. So they set off on a globe trotting adventure to find the cure and beat the illness, nicknamed The Clench for… reasons? I guess. It’s 11 parts and very little happens. But it’s a nice snapshot of what was going on at that time if that’s what you’re into.

Long-term effects: none.