This volume is Part 3 of "Fear of Faith," the second story arc in the main Batman: No Man's Land storyline and the third of its four chapters. The chapter originally appeared in Batman #564 (April 1999) under the subtitle "Life in Hell." The story unfolds in Gotham City after a massive earthquake has devastated it and the U.S. authorities have declared it a "No Man's Land." In the ruins of Gotham Cathedral, the Ark Project refugee center is run by Father Chris Sander and shelters the old, weak, sick, and poor who lack the means to leave the ruined city. Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow, having lost his fear toxin, still infiltrates the refugee center and uses human faith as his experimental subject, seeking to prove that no belief can deliver anyone from fear. In this volume, Huntress Helena Bertinelli brings in Mickey, a boy mortally wounded by gunfire from former gang members, and begs for help. The priest can only pray, so she turns to Batman. Batman takes Mickey to a district field hospital kept running by Dr. Leslie Thompkins, and uses a travel alarm disguised as a bomb to force the Penguin to reveal where his hidden arms cache is located—only to discover that the weapons are stored in an underground bomb shelter beneath the refugee center. Meanwhile, the Scarecrow leaks the location of the arms separately to the Huntress and to the False Face Society, trying to ignite a full-scale gang war. Written by Devin K. Grayson and drawn by Dale Eaglesham, the story is an interlude on faith and fear within Batman: No Man's Land.
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