(Spectre IV #11) - Arkham; Freeze mooned over a picture of his wife while one of Spectre's (Hal Jordan) aspects struggled to find a way to redeem Feeze's soul.

(Superman / Batman #3) - Freeze, along with a number of other supervillains, attempted to collect the billion dollar bounty President Luthor placed on Superman’s head but failed.

(Detective Comics #791 (BTS), 792, 793) - Someone interested in taking over the Hill's Street gangs told Freeze to cause dissention in their ranks. Capo Siegel, a major funder of the gangs, went behind his pop star wife L'Shea's back to kill her daughter Neisha Dupris, who was acting as a surrogate for L'Shea. Freeze gave ice bullets to Biggie Tiny and Capo's other underlings to do the job. He then convinced Biggie to make a grab for Capo's spot and gave him a suit of freeze armor. Capo and Biggie ended up dead after a confrontation, and Batman confronted Freeze to learn who he was working for, but Freeze wasn't talking.

(Batman: Gotham Knights #59) - Freeze detonated an Icicle Bomb in Gotham City Park, freezing the entire area and all the park-goers. He attempted to detonate another Icicle Bomb on the Hill, but Batman sabotaged it.

(Villains United #1) - Calculator inducted Mr. Freeze into “Lex Luthor’s” Society.

(Batgirl I #68, 69) - Nyssa Raatko, calling herself Nyssa al Ghul, followed in her father’s footsteps and took over his empire. She recruited a new generation of the League of Assassins as well as Lady Shiva to act as their new Sensei. Batgirl tracked down Lady Shiva to Nyssa’s stronghold in the Balkans, hoping to learn her true parentage. Nyssa’s security systems detected Batgirl, but she wanted to see what would happen when she confronted Shiva. Batgirl found herself in Shiva’s dojo, where the new League all bowed down before her, calling her the One Who is All. Shiva said they respected her for being the League’s perfect living weapon and for having defeated Shiva in personal combat. Batgirl disliked their adulation, and liked it even less when Shiva said she’d be their teacher too. Shiva attacked Batgirl, reminding her they were supposed to have fought to the death, but admitting that she was grateful in a sense because Batgirl humbling her forced her to relearn. Batgirl demanded to know if Shiva was her mother, but she was evasive and asked Batgirl if she saw her creation or her destruction in Shiva’s eyes. Nyssa was intrigued, but didn’t want to risk either Batgirl or Shiva dying, and summoned her new scientist Mr. Freeze, who froze Batgirl solid, putting an end to the fight. Nyssa told Shiva that Batgirl was her father’s investment in human engineering and she had every right to claim her property, but paused to see if Shiva would object, which she did not. Nyssa asked Batgirl if she was hoping Shiva would fight for her, if that would prove anything. Nyssa allowed Batgirl to remain frozen and told Shiva to carry on with instructing her students. Shiva broke up a sparring match between Alpha and Mad Dog to demonstrate her skills on Mad Dog, complementing his raw talent, but criticizing his focus and badly hurting him. Batgirl wondered what point she was trying to make, and realized that against her better nature watching Shiva elegantly hurt people gave her a feeling of exhilaration. Nyssa had a video conference with Society members Talia al Ghul, Penguin, Deathstroke, Merlyn and Calculator, telling them all was going well with Mr. Freeze’s research to create a machine that could freeze half the world’s oil supplies. She surprised them by revealing she had Batgirl as her captive and told Penguin he should pay her the bounty on Batgirl’s head. She also mocked Deathstroke, who still hoped his daughter Ravager would be the one to take Batgirl out, saying his daughter should set her sights lower and go after third-stringer Flamebird. After the conference Talia confided in Batgirl that she was only working with the Society for her own ends, and hoped to initiate a hostile takeover of the group alongside Talia. Nyssa was sure the Society would conquer the world and told Batgirl that once she was in charge Batgirl could fulfill her destiny as the finest product of the League of Assassins. Instead of busting drug gangs and supervillains she could help Nyssa stop the corporate greed that starved some people and killed other due to making medicine unaffordable or unavailable. Batgirl was unconvinced and Nyssa put her in Mr. Freeze’s lab to reflect on her offer. Mr. Freeze had only agreed to work with Nyssa and the Society because he’d been promised the Lazarus Pit could resurrect his wife He’d managed to put her body back together and refreeze her after her body was shattered, and still held out hope her brain was intact. Nora Fries. Batgirl convinced him he was being used as a useful tool, and both he and Nora deserved better. Freeze unfroze Batgirl and together they fought past the Ubus Nyssa set up as security for Freeze’s lab. They made their way to the Lazarus Pit and Freeze pushed Nora in, but she emerged furious and insane.

(Batgirl I #70) - Years of alterations by Mr. Freeze’s machines had altered Nora’s biochemistry, allowing her to internalize the fires of the Lazarus Pit. She blamed Mr. Freeze for turning her into a monster, and rechristening herself Lazara she started raising zombies from the grounds of Nyssa’s stronghold. Nyssa admitted that she built her stronghold on one of the sites where Milosevic committed genocide, saying she never wanted to forget what true evil was. Nyssa confirmed that the resurrected were not truly alive, and Batgirl had no reason not to hold back against them. Shiva was impressed, and sent her League into the fray. The zombies threatened to overwhelm them, and killed Los Gemelos. Nyssa tried to kill Lazara, but Batgirl staid her hand, saying there had to be a better way. She admitted to Freeze that she’d made a terrible mistake, and asked him to freeze Lazara again. He said he would not, but he did have a plan to stop the carnage he’d inadvertently caused. He blew up the freeze machine he’d been working on for the Society, and Nyssa’s stronghold began collapsing under tons of ice. Batgirl fled to safety with League members Ox, Tigris and White Willow. She witnessed Mr. Freeze and Lazara making their escape as Freeze chased after his wife, begging her to stop her rampage. Ox, Tigris and Willow looked to Batgirl for guidance as to what to do next, and she wondered if she could show them a life path that would lead them away from being hired killers. Shiva survived, and told her students Mad Dog, Kitty Kumbata, Wam Wam and shrike that she had a contest for them, hunting Batgirl and her defectors.

(Firestorm: The Nuclear Man II #24, 25) - Killer Frost had a new scheme to achieve power, and recruited Mr. Freeze to help her after making him fall in love with her. He told her he was still loyal to his wife, and she promised not to push him. Frost’s tenderness was, of course, just another one of her manipulations. She had Freeze design a jet-box that she intended to attach to her nemesis Firestorm so she could reach the sun, and absorb its energy. Killer Frost started slaughtering people in Manhattan’s upper west side to attract Firestorm’s attention, and when he intervened Freeze waylaid him. Frost used Firestorm to reach the sun, but he eventually defeated her. Batman came from Gotham, and easily put down Freeze. The heroes took away their respective villains, and Freeze promised to wait for Frost, and she responded by calling him a loser.

(Titans II #28-30) - Deathstroke’s Titans came to Arkham to liberate inmate Allegra Garcia on behalf of a client, and bribed a guard for the run of the asylum. After they double-crossed him he flipped a switch that released all the inmates. Freeze and his fellow inmates were looking forward to freedom, and attacked the Titans, not wanting them to stand in their way. Deathstroke had Allegra use her electromagnetic powers to disable the Arkham inmates security collars. Deathstroke told them they were free to play with Batman, and they allowed the Titans and Allegra to leave.

Comments: Created by Bob Kane