Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham (2000) #2

Batman, 1920's Gotham."These were the great sorcered scientists of the old world. And my father, by necromantic arts, wrestled from them their secrets, set them all down in a book...and returned to the world of men. But something from that ancient world followed after him...and in broad daylight he was torn apart by invisible claws. The pieces of his body were burned and his ashes and book passed to me."In ELSEWORLDS, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places - some that have existed, and others that can't, couldn't or shouldn't exist. The result is stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow.