Rainblo-Batman Custom Comic, "Batman-Born on the Fourth of July, pg 27

This is Day 23 of my serialized blog about the Rainblo-Batman Custom Comic entitled “Batman: Born on the Fourth of July”, which I pencilled in the spring of 1994. Each day’s post will include the plot outline, the finished script (when I have it), my roughs, and my pencils. I can’t include images of the pages-as-published as I didn’t receive and have never seen them . If anyone reading this has a copy of the published work, please contact me. If you give or sell me a copy, or send me scans of the published or finished artwork, I will incorporate them into future blog posts. 

Today I’m posting page 27, along with the shot list that served as my first draft prior to roughing out the last third of the story.

                                                             RBBM Shotlist pg 27

35) He’s jumped by group of mimes

36) Throws them off

37) Wall near him is stitched by machine gun

38) Shot of Riddler on parapet, firing machine gun

39) Batman runs past souvenir shop, bullets break glass window

40) Batman reaches inside, pulls out statue replica

41) Throws it at Riddler

42) Beans him, knocking him out

I had fun with the mime posing in panels 1 & 2, although I'm not sure how they'd look inked. I seemed to have forgotten my original concept for the characters, that they would be black silhouettes, except for their faces and question marks. Oops.

I want to point out panels 8 & 9; Riddler is stunned by whatever it was that Batman hurled at him in panel 6; In panel 8 we see Riddle, unconscious, arms stretched with both hands out of frame. In panel 9 we have a close up on Riddler’s hand. Next to it is the item thrown by Batman in panel 6, which is a replica Statue of Liberty with its hand broken off, ironically echoing Riddler’s theft of the hand on an earlier page. Is this artily pretentious or what?