Though near death from wounds inflicted during his fight with the Joker and the police, Batman applies his ingenuity to restoring law to Gotham. A few citizens, including Jim Gordon, pull together to fight the fires and retain some semblance of civilization until the power is restored. An airplane crippled by the electromagnetic pulse crashes into a building, feeding the panic. Gotham descends almost immediately into chaos as the blackout hits, with rioting and looting rocking the city. Deprived of the sunlight that gives him his powers, Superman nearly dies. The warhead was designed to disrupt all electronics and communications in the Western Hemisphere as well as throw millions of tons of dust and debris into the atmosphere. Superman manages to divert the missile to an uninhabited desert area before it detonates, but damage is done nonetheless. When the USSR launches a nuclear warhead called Coldbringer in response to Superman's presence in Corto Maltese.
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