YMMV / Batman: Detective No. 27

• Complete Monster: Dr. Thomas Wayne is a cruel, fanatical leader of the Confederate group known as the Knights of the Golden Circle. Thomas orchestrates the death of his wife Martha just to fake his own death, and leaves his young son Bruce alive solely to serve as an eyewitness. Developing a plant-based fear toxin, Thomas uses it to brainwash people into serving him, hoping to unleash the toxin at a baseball game and drive the tens of thousands of civilians attending into violent frenzies and kill one another. When his plans are exposed, Thomas murders one of his Co-Dragons, tries to kill his son Bruce, and nearly douses the President of the United States with his toxin, uncaring that it could cause a world war so long as he completes his mission of getting revenge on the Northern states for defeating the Confederates in the Civil War.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This wouldn't be the last continuity to have the twist of Thomas Wayne surviving the shooting while letting his son believe he died with Martha.