Publication History
The Crime Bible first appeared in the 2006 to 2007 series 52, in the sections dealing with the characters Renee Montoya and Batwoman. The story was continued in the later part of 2007 in Crime Bible: Five Lessons of Blood, a five-issue limited series featuring Montoya in her new guise as the Question. Since then it has reappeared as the inspiration for the villains facing Batwoman in Detective Comics, in which it appears that a rift has developed between the followers of the Crime Bible based on differing interpretations of its teachings. The focus of the rift is that the book supposedly predicts the actual death of Batwoman; when she survives being stabbed through the heart many of the cultists come to believe the book is deeply flawed.
Bruno Mannheim even uses the Crime Bible to help in running Intergang.
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