That is exactly what happens in the first part of this story. It turns out that the Scarecrow has perfected his serum to cause an intense individaul fear, of him!! When Batman and Robin get zapped it's lights out as they cannot face the Scarecrow and in-turn lose their confidence in crime fighting. Needless to say everything will right itself, it was amazing how Mike Friedrich worked it out. Our stallwart friend Alfred comes to the rescue. This issue had good art for the time Moldoff with Stone inks. Overall this book was probably closer to a 3 but, the writing made up for some of the art lapse in the book.