Batman: The Ultimate Evil the project, allowing Vachss to take some creative liberties. At a party, Bruce Wayne meets Debra Kane, a caseworker with Child Protective Services. He asks to join her while she visits clients. She agrees and shows him the varying degrees of child abuse she encounters in the course of her job. Wanting to understand the factors behind child abuse, Bruce, as Batman, breaks into Hellgate Prison and talks with an informant who points him to a child pornography and prostitution ring. Bruce's butler Alfred Pennyworth reveals that Bruce's mother, Martha Wayne, had been secretly investigating a similar child prostitution ring,
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight popularity of these led to the limited series "". The short-lived series "Legends of the DC Universe" was based on the concept of "Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight". But instead of Batman, it featured a rotating roster of other DC superheroes. The "Batman: Mitefall" special used the modern version of Bat-Mite, who first appeared in "Legends of the Dark Knight" #38, to parody the Batman storyline. "Batman: Four of a Kind" chronicles Batman's four first meetings with the Batman villains Poison Ivy, the Riddler, the Scarecrow and the Man-Bat. Those stories were printed in the "Annual"s of the four