COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
The Blackbird of Banditry
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
October/November, 1947
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Jim Mooney
INKER:
Jim Mooney
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
COVER:
Jim Mooney
PRICE: $.10 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon;
Penguin
PLOT:
Angered that the Joker and Catwoman capture the headlines, the Penguin begins a series of spectacular crimes. He bases his robberies on fictional birds, leaving clues for Batman to follow. Batman follows the clues, but he and Robin are captured. Penguin creates a death trap for Robin, but Batman disarms it. Batman then tracks down Penguin's blimp and apprehends the fowled felon.
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TITLE:
Next Stop -- Danger
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Jim Mooney
INKER:
Jim Mooney
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Batman and Robin follow to mobsters aboard a subway train. The crooks take control of the train and hold Batman at gunpoint. One of the passengers lends a hand and stops the train. The sudden stop allows Batman to get free. He chases the crooks, but they both die as a result of their own actions. As a result of their actions the train passengers are rewarded and turn their own lives around.
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TITLE:
The Four Horsemen of Crime
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Jim Mooney
INKER:
Jim Mooney
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Carter Nichols;
Commissioner James Gordon
PLOT:
Four of history's greatest villains return and begin a series of crimes. The crooks appear to have been brought to the present via Professor Nichols's time-ray. Batman and Robin battle the crooks, but Ghengis Khan, John Dillinger, Captain Kidd, and Jesse James all manage to escape.
Batman managed to plant a transmitter inside a crate of stolen gold. The signal leads Batman to Nichols's house where he finds the crooks. He exposes them as phony mobsters led by crime boss Martin Bain. Bain himself is impersonating Nichols. Batman frees the real Nichols and apprehends the mobsters.
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