Seventy-two hours ago, Batman worked over a mook named Raju. He was Batman's only hope left of getting confirmation on The Dollmaker's operations. Fortunately, after having his head shoved into a toilet a few times, Raju squealed. Meanwhile, Batman himself has been captured by The Dollmaker, and attached to wires which make him a veritable human marionette. He is forced to fight with thugs dressed up as The Joker all to prove that he is the real thing, so that his eventually mutilated body can be auctioned off to the highest bidder.