synopsis:
Pete Maddox is almost ready to commit his most ambitious crime yet: The assassination of Batman who is the guest of honor for a parade being held in his name. As he sets up for his shot, he recalls back to how he got to this point: Sometime ago, the poor and destitute Maddox was living in a rundown flop house with no hot water and no heat. After a cold shower in the middle of winter the freezing cold Maddox goes to sleep and has a dreams the result of a horse race, which to his surprise comes true the next day. Unable to pay the rent the next day, Maddox is thrown out onto the street where he has to spend a cold winter night sleeping on a park bench. He has another dream where Batman stops a crook from robbing a candy store, and how Batman fails to turn up the stolen loot which was hidden in a nearby trashcan. Waking up, he decides to see if this even was also another premonition, and to his surprise he finds the money right where he dreamed it would be. Deciding that he is onto something, Maddox attempts to use the dreams for his own financial gain and reads up all he can about Oneiromancy at the Gotham Library. However, when he bet on a baseball game, he would lose, making Maddox realize that the catalyst that caused him to have his prophetic dreams was the cold. The story continues...