Batman: Shadow of the Bat#6(1992)

On a bridge, a large pickup truck tails a car full of kids. The driver, thinking the truck wants to race, speeds up only for the truck to catch up to them, angered by their type of car. To their horror, the truck runs them off the road, the driver snarling that they should by home-made. At Sam's Place, the driver, a massive imposing man, demands bear. The owner gives him one, but he shatters it in his hand because it was Mexican-made beer, demanding American-made. After chugging it down, he demands the bartender tell him the whereabouts of a girl named Tina. The bartender is punched in the face and he reveals that Tina left his employment and got married. Back at the bridge, Batman descends onto the scene of the first crime, joining Commissioner Gordon. Unfortunately, they have no leads as the driver disappeared. Two CIA agents descend onto Gordon and Gordon refuses to let them through before a third, a Dr. Thomas Woolf, asks them to let them through. Gordon decides to let them do so. Gordon tries to ask Batman about what they might be here for, only to find out he's long gone, following the trio in the Batmobile. The agents panic as Batman seemingly catch up, but relax as Batman turns down another road. Dr. Wolfe snaps at the two agents as the attacker was lost on their watch. One of the agents opens up a briefcase holding a sniper gun, vowing that since their target is officially dead, they'll be ready to make him dead for certain. At Kim's Mini-Mart, the store owner, Kim, is arguing with elderly Miss Harkness: she wants to buy a certain type of chopped liver for her poodle Rodrigo but she doesn't have the money. Reluctantly, Kim lets her have it, putting it on her tab. As the woman and her dog go to leave, Kim's wife, Tina, steps out of the Employee's Office. The two are incredibly happy with a son on the way, but the happiness is shattered when the man makes his way to the store. He cruelly murders Rodrigo in front of Miss Harkness before entering the store, snarling that he hates foreign dogs. When he demands to find a girl, she realizes Tina is who he's looking for. She recognizes him as her father. At Sam's Place, the CIA agents threaten the bartender in search of the man. Dr. Woolf hates the idea of using violence, but the agents mock him for something he did, when they're confronted by Batman. It's clear the agents don't want Batman's help, getting him out of the way and on the road. However, Batman had been able to sneak out the folder marked "The Ugly American". The man they're searching for is Jon Kennedy Payne. His father died in the Korean War and, in the outbreak of the Vietnam War, refused to let protesters have their way. As one man set an American flag on fire, Jon murdered him in cold blood. He was given life in prison, leaving behind a wife and a two-year-old child. He was a perfect specimen. Jon agreed to participate in a process, given a full pardon if it all went well. Due to his patriotism, they decided to amplify it through drugs and hypnotism and trained in assassination and saboteur skills. However, it went way too far: his mind snapped, believing anyone not Caucasian to be foreign enemies. He would be locked away as his death is faked, hoping he would never escape. At Kim's Mini-Mart, Tina is shocked Jon is alive - she was told he was dead. He was alive the entire time, but his desire to reunite with Tina drove him to find her. When she introduces Kim as her husband, he angrily slaps him into a shelf. Jon is furious - why did she marry "the enemy". Kim recovers and tries to get him to stop, but Jon's rage gets the better of him, throwing Kim into another man and out through the store window, telling him to go back to his own country as Batman arrives. Jon is furious that Tina married Kim and attempts to attack her before Batman stops him. Jon turns and slugs Batman, saying that true Americans don't hide their face. Batman quickly recovers and kicks him outside, trying to reason with him. However, he realizes that he's too far gone and he'll have to resort to violence. As the two fight, the CIA agents catch up to them. One of them, Burr, gets his sniper rifle and takes aim at Jon. Batman catches him at the last second, unable to stop him as Jon is shot in the head. As Batman attacks the shooter, Woolf tries to reason with Batman that Jon was dangerous, but Batman shoots back that he was a monster Woolf created and other people needed to know. Sometime later, Batman anonymously delivers the file on Jon and the name of a lawyer who specializes in anti-government suits to Tina and Kim, a letter enclosed, asking them to use it to expose the wrongs caused by Woolf and the government. As Kim looks over the file, a despondent Miss Harkness enters the store, devastated by the loss of her poodle. However, Tina decides to surprise the old lady with a gift - a poodle puppy like her lost Rodrigo, which she happily accepts, her broken heart mending.