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Batman #422
So, I was looking through my comics to decide what issue to jump to, since issues #417-#423 don’t have much of Jason in them. However, before I jumped into issue #424, I wanted to talk about the significance of Jason’s appearance in Batman #422 because it leads into the issues outlined in Batman #224.
This is the first time that the audience sees Jason struggling with Batman’s moral code. Issues #421 and #422 are about two men going on a killing spree, specifically targeting women who “need straightening out” and dumping their bodies in dumpsters. After murdering his partner in crime, Karl manages to walk away without any jail time and is immediately put back on the streets. Jason clearly has a problem with this because his outburst follows the court case, which is dismissed because of the evidence being used to convict him having been secured illegally.
Violence against women is Jason’s soft spot, which will be extremely important to be aware of in the following issue as well as the Death in the Family arc. Jason is angry that him and Batman worked within the law to lock someone up, only to have them walk away. He is especially angry that this man can go and attack more women, which he does end up doing. Bruce recognizes that there is an issue with Jason’s emotional state in the early stages of the problem developing, but chooses not to pursue the issue rather than helping Jason. In a later issue, this will be shown as a byproduct of Jason’s unresolved grief, but right now, neither recognize what the problem stems from.
Karl, the man who walked away from the conviction, is eventually killed by a woman who follows him throughout the rest of the comic. Upon hearing the news that the woman, a girl named Judy, killed him after he picked her up to be his next victim, Jason finds himself agreeing with her methods. She tells Bruce that “It might not have been legal…but it was right.” That quote will really set the stage for Jason’s shifting morality when trying to decide whether it is right or wrong to kill criminals when Bruce’s way of dealing with them are not yielding the results that Jason wants.

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