BATMAN v1 #1- 100 (1940-1956)

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Batman v1 #1
The Joker
Fecha: 1940.04| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Mejores Historias del Joker 1 (Zinco), BBK Diario AS.

The Joker, a grinning clown-faced killer, announces his crimes over the radio, threatening to kill several men and steal valuable items from them. When he is successful, the underworld is angry that he has upstaged them. Brute Nelson, a gangster, plans a trap for the Joker, but the Joker avoids the trap and kills Nelson. Batman, having taken an interest in the case is nearly killed himself when he attempts to pursue the Clown Prince of Crime. Batman has Robin watch the site of the Joker’s next attack where the Joker has killed Judge Drake. Robin follows Joker back to an old house, but is captured. Batman arrives in time to save Robin from being injected with Joker Venom, a poison which kills leaving a smile on the victim’s face. Joker escapes again, but only temporarily as Batman tracks him down once again. This time the Dynamic Duo is able to take down the villain and send him to prison.

Notas: Debut JokerTierra-2 su origen se narra en Detective Comics v1 #168 (1951). La versión deTierra-1 aparecerá en Batman v1 #97 (1956). La versión post-crisis aparecerá en Detective Comics v1 #569 (1986) y su origen en The Killing Joke (1989). Según Bob Kane el personaje parte de una inspiración suya sobre la película “El hombre que ríe” de 1928, según Jerry Robinsón parte de una inspiración suya sobre en el comodín de la baraja.

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The Giants of Hugo Strange
Fecha: 1940.04| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Las mejores historias de Batman 1 (Zinco).

Batman has a second encounter with Professor Hugo Strange, who has used a special glandular growth formula to transform inmates from a local insane asylum into feral, 10-foot-tall “man monsters.” Batman is captured by Strange and his men and injected with the monster serum, but he manages to concoct an antidote in time to save himself. He subsequently kills a number of Strange’s henchmen and “man monsters” with machine-gun fire from the Batplane, hangs another monster with the bat-rope, and uses tear gas pellets to cause the last monster to fall to his death from a downtown skyscraper

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The Cat
Fecha: 1940.04| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Las mejores historias de Batman 2 (Zinco).

Robin goes undercover aboard a boat to protect the valuable necklace of Martha Travers. When the necklace goes missing there are several suspects. Before any can be questions, several theives board the boat to steal the necklace. With it already stolen they begin searching passengers. Robin takes on the thieves with the help of Batman who arrives late. Robin tells Batman about the suspects as well as someone known as the Cat. Batman returns to the passengers while Robin pulls the fire alarm. The passengers run out of the main cabin to find it a false alarm, but the brief scare causes the Cat to be revealed in the disguise of an old woman Miss Peggs. Batman and Robin take her and her partner, Denny, into custody. The beautiful thief offers Batman a partnership which he turns down, but she escapes from them thanks to Batman’s blundering. Robin suspects that his partner may have intentionally allowed her to get away.

Notas: Debut de CatwomanTierra-2 (Selina Kyle), la cual es llamada la Gata (the Cat), su nombre y origen se narran en Batman v1 #62/1 (1950) y se modifica en Brave & Bold #197 (1983). La contrapartida deTierra-1 aparecerá en Lois Lane #70 (1966) o Kellog´s mini comic (1966). La contrapartida post crisis aparecerá en Detective Comics #569 (1986), su origen post crisis se narra en Batman v1 #406, 1987 (como prostituta) y modificado por Catwoman Annual #2, 1998 (no prostituta). La introducción de Catwoman (creación de Kane y Finger) como némesis de femenina intenta aportar interés sexual a la serie atrayendo a la misma a hombres y mujeres. Catwoman está inspirada en la prima segunda de Kane, Ruth Stell, y en la actriz de los años ´30 Jean Harlow. El personaje es creado como una némesis de Batman ya que los gatos cazan murciélagos.

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The Joker Returns
Fecha: 1940.04| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Joker escapes jail using an explosive hidden inside his tooth. He continues his string of jewel thefts and strange killings. Batman encounters him at one such robbery, but the Harlequin of Hate gets the best of him. Batman recovers before the police can remove his mask, but the Joker has already escaped. Batman then plants a trap for the Joker, by baiting him to steal a priceless ruby. The Joker shows up and tangles with the Dynamic Duo. While struggling with Batman, Joker is stabbed by his own knife and left for dead by the Caped Crusaders. The police find the body and a doctor determines that the Joker lives on.

Batman v1 #2
The Joker Meets the Cat-Woman
Fecha: 1940.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Joker has miraculously survived his apparent death during his last encounter with Batman. He is taken to a hospital, but Crime Syndicate, Inc., a criminal gang in need of a leader, break him out. They lure the police away by having a Batman impersonator attack them. Batman and Robin arrive at the hospital and find the Cat-Woman outside. She is planning to steal some jewels, but gives Batman information about the Joker. Batman busts up the Crime Syndicate, while Robin trails Cat-Woman the jewels. Joker also tries to steal the jewels, but is taken out when Batman arrives. Joker is left for dead in a burning building, while Cat-Woman dives into the river from the Bat-Plane to escape capture.

Notas: Catwoman es llamada «Cat-Woman»

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Wolf, the Crime Master
Fecha: 1940.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A museum custodian, Adam Lamb, injures his head in a fall causing him to develop a split personality. He assumes the criminal identity of the Wolf every night, but forgets his actions during the day. Batman is wounded in an encounter with the Wolf, but he makes the connection to Lamb. Batman arrives at the museum in time to prevent Wolf from murdering his employer, but the man is killed by another fall

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The Case of the Clubfoot Murders
Fecha: 1940.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Harley Storme, a millionaire, is killed by a clubfoot killer. His family is given small pieces of gold with strange inscriptions on them. The killer begins killing family members, despite Batman’s efforts. Finally, Batman learns that the killer is Ward, the family lawyer. He had planned to take the family’s gold pieces which represented their stakes in a gold mine. Batman stops the man, who disguised himself as Clubfoot Beggs, an old enemy of Storme.

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The Case of the Missing Link
Fecha: 1940.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Professor Drake returns from Africa with a fifteen foot man he describes as the missing link. Drake tames the giant and names him Goliath. A circus wants to use Goliath in their show, but the professor refuses to allow it. Hackett and Snead, the circus owners, hire Grimes, a thug, to kill Drake and make it appear a suicide. Goliath witnesses the crime, but is taken to the circus after Drake dies. At the circus, Goliath spots Grimes in the audience and goes berserk. He kills Grimes and reverts to beastly behavior. Batman and Robin are forced to bring the giant down, but the circus owners are later arrested for Drake’s death.

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The Strange Case of the Diabolical Puppet Master
Fecha: 1940.10| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Agents of a criminal, Dmitri, scratch an atomic scientist, infecting him with a hypnotic serum. The serum allows Dmitri to control the scientist from afar. Batman prevents the scientist from handing over secret plans to the crook. Later during another battle with Dmitri’s men, Batman is scratched with the serum also. Robin manages to break Batman of the spell before he can turn some stolen loot over to Dmitri. Batman then captures the crook.

Notas: Debut del Amo de las Marionetas

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The Ugliest Man in the World
Fecha: 1940.10| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A horde of ugly men begin defacing beautiful works of art, and people in town suddenly become ugly. Batman tracks the horde in an attempt to stop them, but he is captured. He learns that the leader, Larry Larrimore was injected accidentally with a chemical which caused him to become ugly. This is his revenge. Robin rescues Batman and together they put a stop to Larrimore’s mob.

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The Crime School for Boys
Fecha: 1940.10| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman learns about a crime school for young boys, so he builds a gymnasium for them to use. Robin infiltrates the group of boys and teaches them fair play. Batman breaks up the gang responsible for the school, and the boys join in to stop the crooks.

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The Batman vs. the Cat-Woman
Fecha: 1940.10| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Cat-Woman has gone on a burglary spree prompting Commissioner Gordon to put Detective McGonigle on the case. Batman investigates too, but finds a secretary for a diamond syndicate murdered. Batman learns that the syndicate members have hired Cat-Woman to steal the diamonds so they can collect the insurance. The partners double-cross each other, but Batman catches them. Cat-Woman escapes, and Batman turns the jewels over to McGonigle.

Notas: Primer beso de Catwoman a Batman. Catwoman comienza a usar un uniforme (con una máscara peluda de gato).

Batman v1 #4
The Case of the Joker’s Crime Circus
Fecha: 1941.01| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Mejores Historias del Joker 1 (Zinco), Batman Valenciana.

The Joker has survived his fall into the ocean and starts a new gang based on the circus. The gang performs for rich families to case the victims’ houses. Batman makes the connection with a string of robberies and arrives at another performance of the crime circus. Joker escapes back to his hide-out, but Batman follows him there. Batman escapes a trap, then throws the Joker down a long shaft to his apparent death.

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Blackbeard’s Crew and the Yacht Society
Fecha: 1941.01| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Members of a yacht club are hijacked at sea by a pirate ship. The passengers manage to send a message about the attack, but only Batman takes it seriously. The Dynamic Duo board the yacht and battle the pirate gang, enlisting the aid of some of the passengers. After the pirates are defeated, the leader of the gang, who was disguised as Blackbeard, is revealed to be Thatch, a notorious gangster. He had intended to hold the passengers for ransom.

Notas: Debut de Blackbeard

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Public Enemy No. 1 Starts Jail Sentence
Fecha: 1941.01| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Jimmy McCoy was a young boy sent to a reformatory when he got caught for delivering alcohol during prohibition. When he got released, he joined a mob and became an overlord of the underworld. He later was convicted of tax evasion and sent to prison for ten years. Upon his release, the current mob boss, Big Costello tries to kill Jimmy. Batman tries to stop the gang war, but it continues until Jimmy is gunned down by Costello, finally ending his tragic life.

Notas: Jimmy McCoy está inspirado en el actor James Cagney

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Touchdown for Justice
Fecha: 1941.01| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman learns of a plot to fix a football gang by a notorious gambler, Stacy. The crooks suspect Batman is really Bruce Wayne and try to trick him, but the Batman uses tricks of his own to convince them otherwise. Meanwhile the crooks have kidnapped the quarterback of one of the teams, so Batman disguises himself as the missing man. Robin trails the crooks to their hide-out and rescues the quarterback, Stockton. Batman has replaced Stockton in the game, but when the real Stockton arrives he takes over and finishs the game.

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The Riddle of the Missing Card
Fecha: 1941.04| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Two months after being rescued from Gotham harbor after an apparently fatal plunge during his last encounter with Batman and Robin, the Joker opens a gambling ship moored just outside the three-mile limit. When Batman investigates, he is nearly slain by the Joker, but his life is saved by Queenie, one of the Joker’s henchmen. Queenie, who has realized that Batman is Bruce Wayne after spotting a shaving nick on Bruce’s chin, falls in love with him and ultimately sacrifices her life to save him from her confederate’s bullets

Notas: Se introduce el Batmovil típico de los años ´40 (con un murciélago en el morro) el cual permanecerá mas o menos inalterado hasta Detective Comics v1 #156 (1950)

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Book of Enchantment
Fecha: 1941.04| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin are sent to Fairyland by an inventor who has created a machine that can transport people into stories from books. The Dynamic Duo meet a variety of fictional characters in their travels through the world, while they search for the inventor’s daughter, Enid. They locate the girl, who has been taken prisoner by the Black Witch, Gruel. Batman and Robin defeat Gruel and her minions and return to the real world before they have remained too long, forcing them to become permanent residents of Fairyland.

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The Case of the Honest Crook
Fecha: 1941.04| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

While helping Batman investigate the racketeer “Smiley” Sikes, Robin is nearly beaten to death by a pair of the gangster’s henchmen. After leaving his wounded partner in the care of a surgeon, Batman invades Sikes’s hide-out and, despite being shot three times, brutally extorts a confession from the now-terrified Sikes. After depositing the defeated criminal at the local police precinct Batman returns to the surgeon’s home, where, muttering, “I think I’m going to be a sissy and faint, doc…sorry!” he finally collapses of his wounds. The surgeon, fortunately, is able to save the lives of both Batman and Robin, and opts not to remove their masks while they are unconscious, thus preserving their secret identities.

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Brothers in Crime
Fecha: 1941.04| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin follow the trail of two bank robbers, but the crooks escape. Batman returns to the crime scene as Bruce Wayne and spots the crooks without their masks. He learns that one is Mike Grogan, a gangster, and the other is Tommy, Mike’s brother. Tommy is shot during the next robbery, so the crooks kidnap Linda Page, a nurse, to help. Batman follows Linda’s trail in time to save her. Mike is shot and killed by his own gang. Tommy summons the police and is later pardoned and released.

Notas: Debut de Linda Page (segunda novia)

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Murder on Parade
Fecha: 1941.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Chick Miller, a convict, is paroled with the help of his cellmate, Slink Daniels. Chick then learns that one of the parole board members is a gang boss, and that Chick is expected to join the gang. When he refuses, the gang tries to kill Miller, but Batman prevents it. Batman then disguises himself as Marty Loden, another convict, and is similarly paroled. Batman learns the identity of the gang boss and smashes the gang. Robin however is taken hostage by the crooked parole board member. Batman saves him, and the crook is killed in the struggle.

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The Clock Maker
Fecha: 1941.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Atkins, a stockholder in the Hobbs Clock Company, has killed two other stockholders using exotic clocks as murder weapons. He tries to frame the crazy old man who built the clocks, Brock. Batman identifies the pattern and protects the next intended victim, Peter Selby. Brock kills Atkins when he learns that he is being used; then the old man plans to blow up the Hobbs clock tower. Batman and Robin prevent the disaster, and Brock falls to his death.

Notas: Debut de Atkins* (accionista criminal)

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The Secret of the Iron Jungle
Fecha: 1941.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson travel to Texas where Linda Page’s father owns an oil company. Page is being threatened to sell his interest to Graham Masters his partner. Batman and Robin protect Page as Masters forcibly tries to wrest control of the company. The Dynamic Duo battle the crook on an abandoned oil derrick and finally defeat him. Soon, a gusher strikes, making Page rich.

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Suicide Beat
Fecha: 1941.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Fancy Dan, a gangster, kills two cops on patrol in Suicide Beat. The police can’t bring him in because Dan is protected by political boss, Alderman Skigg. Jimmy Kelly, the son of one of the dead cops and a cop himself, takes over Suicide Beat. With Batman’s help, he turns the neighborhood around. Together they are also able to arrest Dan and Skigg for their crimes.

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The Joker’s Practical Jokes
Fecha: 1941.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Joker recruits several practical jokers and blackmails them into working for him. The pranksters pull pranks which distract police and Batman from the Joker’s real crimes. The Clown Prince of Crime can’t resist gloating though and gives Batman a clue to his next job. The Dynamic Duo solve Joker’s riddle and manage to stop the crook, but once again Joker escapes incarceration by falling to his apparent death.

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The Trouble Trap
Fecha: 1941.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin uncover a blackmail scheme conducted by a phony swami. Batman phones Commissioner Gordon to alert him of the illegal activity, but Gordon’s search turns up no evidence. Granda the swami is angered with Batman, so he has Linda Page kidnapped. Batman foils the plan, then infiltrates the swami’s men. Gordon arrives again, this time catching Granda in the act. Batman and Gordon part on friendly terms for perhaps the first time.

Notas: Debut de Granda the Mystic

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The North Wood’s Mystery
Fecha: 1941.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Nora Powell, a friend of Bruce Wayne, inherits part of her murdered uncle’s lumber company. Bruce and Nora visit the company and meet the other new owner of the company, Mr. Powell’s adopted son, Jack Clayton. A series of accidents which nearly kill Nora lead Bruce to believe Clayton is trying to kill her. He investigates as Batman and eventually uncovers a plot by Asher, head of a rival lumber company, to take control of Powell Lumber. Asher had Nora’s uncle killed and was blackmailing Clayton into giving up his share of the company. With the scheme exposed, Clayton is cleared, then he and Nora get together as partners and lovers.

Notas: Debut de Asher* (maganate asesino)

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The People vs. the Batman
Fecha: 1941.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Freddie Hill, a gang leader, hires a paid killer to kill his rival Horatio Delmar. The killer, Weasel, succeeds in murdering Delmar and frames Bruce Wayne for the crime. Hill then tries to kill Weasel, but succeeds only in putting him in the hospital. Robin breaks Bruce out of jail, after Hill hires another man to disguise himself as Batman and try to kill Weasel in the hospital. The real Batman and Robin are able to bring Hill to the police, but the district attorney is against the Caped Crusader. Commissioner Gordon speaks up in Batman’s favor, and Weasel arrives to testify against Hill. Bruce and Batman are both cleared of wrongdoing, and Batman is made an honorary member of the police force.

Notas: Batman es nombrado miembro honorario de la policía

Batman v1 #8
Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make
Fecha: 1941.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman sends gang boss, Mike Russo, to prison. Russo’s men capture the prison warden allowing the criminals to take over the prison. Then they begin a crime spree using the prison as a base. Batman catches on to the scheme and goes undercover as a prisoner. He is eventually exposed and the criminals try sending him to the gas chamber. Robin replaces the poison with seltzer tablet, allowing Batman to survive his execution and put a stop to Russo’s operations.

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The Strange Case of Professor Radium
Fecha: 1941.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A noble but misguided attempt to use a radium serum to revive the dead transforms Professor Henry Ross into the tragic but deadly Professor Radium, who kills several people and clashes with Batman and Robin before accidentally falling to his death

Notas: Debut del Profesor Radium (Henry Ross).

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The Superstition Murders
Fecha: 1941.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne attends a party for the participants in a play about superstitious murders. During the party, the lead actor is poisoned. While Bruce investigates as Batman, two additional murders take place. Batman eventually draws out the killer, Johnny Glim, the play’s author. Glim wanted to ruin his own play so he could sell the rights to another company for a big profit.

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The Cross Country Crimes
Fecha: 1941.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman is summoned to Washington by the FBI chief, G. Henry Mover. Mover congratulates Batman on his successful struggle against crime, when the Joker appears and shoots the FBI man. Batman and Robin then pursue the Joker across the country. Joker’s robberies follow a pattern which spell out his name. Batman sees the pattern and is able to predict where Joker will strike next. He plans a trap for his nemesis, and finally captures his old foe, sending him to Alcatraz.

Notas: Batman es felicitado por el Presidente y por el Director del FBI.

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The Four Fates
Fecha: 1942.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/J Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Four gangsters steal a valuable ruby from the mystic Jaffeer. Jaffeer puts the curse of the four fates upon them, predicting the circumstances of their deaths. Then they kill Jaffeer. Batman and Robin hunt down the crooks and each meets their fate in accidents which confirm Jaffeer’s predictions.

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The White Whale
Fecha: 1942.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A giant white whale endangers shipping and threatens to ruin the Seven Seas Insurance Company. Captain Burly, a sea captain, offers to hunt down the whale, but crewmen are afraid. Burly kidnaps men from the dock, including a disguised Bruce Wayne, to use for his crew. Aboard ship, Burly mistreats his men, so Batman challenges him. When the whale does attack, the crew mutinies forcing the captain, Batman, and Robin into a small boat to face the monster. The whale is really a submarine controlled by the insurance company secretary and being used to committ insurance fraud. The sub is sunk by the Coast Guard; only Batman and Robin survive.

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The Case of the Lucky Law-Breakers
Fecha: 1942.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Joker escapes jail and begins a spree of bank robberies. His gang, a group of recently released prisoners, receive the money in prize winnings from reputable sources because Joker has threatened the organizers. Batman and Robin plan a trap for Joker, but are captured themselves. They escape a deathtrap and stop the gang, but Joker gets away.

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Christmas
Fecha: 1942.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman helps clear the name of Bob Cratchit who has been accused of the murder of a security guard. Batman tracks down the real killer and forces a confession by pretending to be the Ghost of Christmas Past. Bob is released, making his son, Timmy, happy.

Notas: Primera historia de navidad de Batman. Los nombres de Bob y Tim Cratchit son tomados de la historia “A Christmas Carol” de Charles Dickens

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The Isle that Time Forgot
Fecha: 1942.05| Créditos: Joseph Greene (Guiones), B.Kane/J.Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Robin receives his own Batplane for his birthday. Together he and Batman take a test flight and find a small island. Robin lands the plane after sighting a dinosaur on the island. On the island, the Dynamic Duo encounter several people, dinosaurs, and a fake-sabertooth tiger. Everyone seems out to get them, until Robin finally exposes director Guy Markham. The island is a movie set and when Batman arrived they began filming his exploits.

Notas: Robin cumple 14 años y recibe como regalo un mini Bat-plano, que no volverá a aparecer.

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Report Card Blues
Fecha: 1942.05| Créditos: Joseph Greene (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Young Tommy Trent runs away from home fearing he will receive a bad report card. He is picked up by some crooks fleeing the police and Batman. The crooks use Tommy to get past a roadblock, then take him to their hideout. Batman and Robin track the gang thanks to a trail left by Tommy. The Dynamic Duo is able to disrupt the plans of the crooks and their boss Milo. Tommy even joins in to help them. After the crooks are defeated, Tommy returns home with a new attitude.

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The Princess of Plunder
Fecha: 1942.05| Créditos: Jack Schiff (Guiones), J. Robinson/F. Ray (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Margerite Tone, a society woman, holds a party and conducts a scavenger hunt for entertainment. Tone is really the Cat-Woman, and the hunt is a ruse to allow her gang to commit thefts from rich people. Batman and Robin catch the crooks, but Tone gives them alibis forcing the Caped Crusaders to release the thieves. Cat-Woman then continues to conduct her society scams. Batman and Robin eventually catch up to her and stop her gang, but Batman allows the Cat-Woman to escape after she kisses him.

Notas: Segundo beso de Catwoman a Batman.

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Sheriff of Ghost Town
Fecha: 1942.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/J. Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Two drifters settle in an abandoned ghost town. Soon the town begins growing and the founder, Cactus Tom, is elected Mayor. A gang of crooks arrive in town soon after, led by Five Aces Frogel. The crooks plunder the town, forcing the citizens to make a plea to Batman for help. Batman and Robin arrive in town and take over as sheriff and deputy. Frogel pretends to go straight, but then robs a stagecoach, kills Cactus Tom, and kidnaps Robin. Batman organizes a posse and pursues the gang, frees Robin, and restores order to Sunshine City.

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The Joker’s Advertising Campaign
Fecha: 1942.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Joker escapes from jail and begins placing advertisements in the newspaper. The ads assist him in his crimes and taunt Batman. When Joker strikes at a magic show, Robin follows him and is nearly killed. Batman is forced to save his partner, then track down the Joker on his own. When he finally catches up, he puts Joker in the hospital with injuries.

Notas: Robin casi es asesinado por el Joker. Estos eventos vuelven a contarse en All-Star Squadron #20 (1983)

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Payment in Full
Fecha: 1942.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman captures wanted felon Joe Dolan, but Dolan believes he will get off because the district attorney owes the crook his life. The DA is indeed torn by his duty and a promise made to Dolan. Batman persuades DA Benson to think about it, but when Dolan escapes Benson decides to help look for him. Dolan is eventually recaptured with Benson’s help, sending him to his rightful fate.

Notas: Batman persigue a Joe Dolan un amigo de la infancia del fiscal del distrito Lee Benson. La historia está inspirada en la película «Manhattan Melodrama» (1934).

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Bandits in Toyland
Fecha: 1942.07| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne serves on a jury for a jewel theft case. The accused worked for Thompson department store where the jewels went missing. Bruce believes the man is innocent and as Batman links the robbery to Muscles Malone, a gangster. Malone is stealing toys from children. The toys were used to smuggle the jewels from the store. Batman produces the evidence to free the wrongly accused man and captures the real crooks.

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Four Birds of a Feather
Fecha: 1942.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Penguin meets up with some racketeering bosses and goes south to Florida. The bosses set up a gambling club where they allow big winners. Then they follow the winner home and rob them. When they pull this racket on Bruce Wayne, he comes to his own rescue as Batman. Penguin and his cronies escape, but Batman follows them back to their club and stops another of their schemes. One of the bosses, Canary, turns on his partners and helps Batman rescue Robin who has been captured. Batman is shot is the rescue attempt, and Canary operates on him, removing the bullet. Robin finishes up the gang, but Penguin eludes capture again.

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Brothers in Crime
Fecha: 1942.09| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Peter Rafferty is released from prison and attempts to go straight. His brothers drag him back into the gang and begin a new series of crimes. All the brothers wear iron vest to protect them from bullets. Steve and Mike Rafferty both die because of their vests during run-ins with Batman. Peter decides to leave the gang, but is later gunned down by another gang member while trying to do a good deed.

Notas: Se menciona la base de Batman como un hangar bajo tierra. Se muestra por primera vez la «sala de trofeos» de Batman.

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The Wizard of Words
Fecha: 1942.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Joker begins a series of crimes which involve slang words taken literally. After painting the town red with red paint, Joker breaks into a bank that was painted. The paint contained acid that allows him entry. Batman deciphers Joker’s plans and begins chasing Joker around town. The two end up locked in battle atop a blimp. Joker plummets to his apparent death, ending the chase.

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They Thrill to Conquer
Fecha: 1942.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin save the life of stunt man Fearless Ford. Ford explains that he would not pay protection money to gangsters, so they tried to kill him. Batman takes Ford’s place, when the stunt man is to scared to perform. Several attempts are made on Batman’s life, but the racket boss is uncovered, Joe Kirk, Ford’s agent. Finally Ford redeems himself by making a spectacular aerial dive to assist Batman in bringing Kirk to justice.

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Around the Clock with the Batman
Fecha: 1942.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Gotham City celebrates Batman Day honoring its hero. During the day Batman has several adventures, including stopping some jewel thieves, entertaining some sick children, and catching some bank robbers. Batman decides to record the adventures as a chapter in his book, Observations on Crime.

Notas: Gotham City celebra el «Día de Batman». El alcalde de Gotham es presentado como una parodia del alcalde de Nueva York, Fiorello LaGuardia.

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The Batman Plays a Lone Hand
Fecha: 1942.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman breaks up the Dynamic Duo by firing Robin as his partner. Batman goes it alone, while Dick Grayson wanders the streets. Dick is nearby when he sees Batman battling crooks with a new partner. He doesn’t realize the other boy is only a dummy designed to draw the fire of the crooks. Batman confronts the gang, but he loses the fight and is sealed in an underground basement. Later Dick overhears the crooks talking in a restaurant. He follows them as Robin and helps to rescue Batman. Together they defeat the gang. Batman explains that he was protecting Robin after the crooks had threatened to kill him. Batman welcomes Robin back as his partner.

Notas: Batman temporalmente despide a Robin cuando un criminal lo pone en peligro.

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Comedy of Tears
Fecha: 1942.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Joker steals seveal signatures belonging to notable citizens of Gotham City. He then uses the signatures to forge documents which allow him to commit greater crimes. Batman and Robin chase the Joker all over town. Finally they bait a trap by letting the Joker steal Dick Grayson’s autograph book. The trap is set, and Batman is finally able to apprehend his adversary.

Notas: Robin consigue los autógrafos de Joe DiMaggio y Jerry Siegel, el creador de Superman.

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The Story of the Seventeen Stones
Fecha: 1942.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Rocky Grimes is released from prison after a twenty year sentence. While in prison he had amnesia, but upon his release his memory is restored. He remembers how his gang set him up to be caught after hitting him in the head with a stone. Rocky now decides to have his revenge. Rocky begins tracking down the former members of his old gang. He then murders them using stones. After two murders, Batman prevents the third and begins hunting Grimes. Batman deduces the next two potential victims and is able to stop the murders. He then battles Grimes, who slips on hailstones and falls to his death.

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Destination Unknown
Fecha: 1942.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

On a cross-country train, someone slugs the engineer causing the train to speed out-of-control. Batman is summoned to help stop the train. He successfully boards the train and brings it to a stop. He and Robin then join the passengers undercover to learn who was responsible. A captured murder suspect onboard gets free. Batman finds him the victim of an attempted murder by two other men. Batman apprehends them and reveals them as the saboteurs. They were trying to eliminate the suspect because they were they real murderers.

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The Case Batman Failed to Solve
Fecha: 1942.12| Créditos: Joe Samachson (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman Valenciana.

Batman and Robin attend a convention of the world’s greatest detectives, organized by the legendary Dana Drye and including Ezra Plunkett, Dr. Tsu, Grace Seers, and Sir John Bart. They soon find themselves investigating the death of Dana Drye, who is apparently murdered during the meeting. Batman and Robin ultimately deduce that Drye’s death was actually an elaborately staged suicide. They also learn that Drye had deduced Batman’s true identity. To honor the great detective, Batman elects not to reveal the truth about his death, marking this case as (at least publicly) one of his few failures

Notas: Batman y Robin acuden a una convención de detectives, la detective Dana Drye demuestra que Bruce es Batman pero no lo revela

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Prescription for Happiness
Fecha: 1942.12| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Escaped convict, Pills Mattson, flees from a fight with Batman. Pills hides at a local pharmacy where he and his gang force the pharmacist and a local doctor to help them. Batman enters the store to help wash dust out of his eyes, but he doesn’t know that Pills is hiding in the back. After Batman leaves, Pills decides to use the pharmacy as a permanent hide-out, holding a young girl hostage to insure the cooperation of the pharmacist. Batman eventually deduces where Mattson is hiding. He enters the store, but is quickly captured. Robin goes undercover as a soda boy and helps Batman escape. The pharmacist and his customers also pitch in to defeats Pills. The store is ruined in the fight, but Batman and the happy customers help the pharmacist rebuild.

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Swastika Over the White House
Fecha: 1942.12| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Rookie cameraman Fred Hopper gets a job with the help of two veterans, Matt Carson and Tom Starr. Hopper is secretly a Nazi spy sent to photograph secret war factories. Hopper, aka Fritz Hoffner, also tries to set up Batman for his assassins. Batman suspects a link between the cameramen and the assassins. He keeps close watch on the factories and soon runs into Hoffner and his men. Batman and Robin escape a death-trap, then track the Nazis to their hide-out. Batman then finishes smashing the spy ring.

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Bargains in Banditry
Fecha: 1942.12| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Penguin returns with a scheme of planning crimes for other criminals. After the gangs successfully commit the crimes, Penguin robs and kills them. Batman sets himself as a rival mastermind, Bad News Brewster. He leads several crooks into traps for police. Penguin contacts him, but he deduces Batman is really Brewster and sets a trap. Batman and Robin are caught. Robin manages to use Penguin’s own umbrellas to escape, then he and Batman apprehend the Penguin.

Notas: Última vez que el Pingüino comete asesinatos hasta la mitad de los 70

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Your Face Is Your Fortune
Fecha: 1943.03| Créditos: Jack Schiff (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

While masquerading as beautician Elva Barr, the Catwoman falls in love with Bruce Wayne. Batman recognizes “Barr” as the Catwoman in disguise, but hopes that her love for him will compel her to change her ways. He allows her to escape and then publicly courts her as Bruce Wayne; they soon become engaged. However, the Catwoman becomes suspicious of Bruce’s motives and confronts him disguised as Linda Page, at which point he admits that his engagement is a sham. Heartbroken and infuriated, the Catwoman returns to her life of crime with a vengeance, only to be arrested by Batman — the first time he has ever turned her over to police

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The Boy Who Wanted to be Robin
Fecha: 1943.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Gangster Knuckles Conger decides that in order to be a successful criminal, he will try to use Batman’s idea of having a kid partner. Knuckles recruits an orphan named Bobby Deen. He trains the boy in fighting and gymnastics, then tricks him into committing crimes. When Batman and Robin catch up to the pair, Conger claims that they are imposters. Robin is wounded in the fight, and Bobby realizes the truth. He then helps protect Robin. Batman then captures Conger. Bobby is forgiven for his involvment with Conger, and Batman sends the boy to a expensive military academy.

Notas: Catwoman se enamora de Bruce Wayne. Comienza a usar el nombre de Elva Barr.

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The Two Futures
Fecha: 1943.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin consider two possible futures for the war effort: one in which the Dynamic Duo wages a doomed struggle against the Nazi and Japanese occupiers of America, another in which they single-handedly destroy an Axis invasion fleet, leading to the surrender of the Axis powers.

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The Loneliest Men in the World
Fecha: 1943.03| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin decide to bring Christmas cheer to the loneliest men in Gotham City. Before they leave they visit Commissioner Gordon, who is releasing gangster Dirk Dagner due to lack of evidence. Dagner overhears Batman’s plans and makes some of his own. Batman visits Ben Botts, the doorman at a swanky club. Batman invites him in to a party and his boss gives him a raise. Dagner shows up to rob the party guests. Botts lends an assist to Batman and Robin, but the crooks escape. Next Batman drops in on humorist Link Chesney. Chesney feels that his fans forget him and is lonely. Dagner again drops in and captures both Dagner and Batman. He leaves them in a deathtrap, then leaves for another robbery. Batman escapes the trap, then arranges a phone call for Chesney and his fans. Batman leaves for a lighthouse where Dagner has gone. The crook has shut off the light, so a cargo ship will crash on the rocks. Batman arrives in time to stop Dagner and save the ship. He then brings good cheer to the lighthouse keeper Tom Wicks.

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The Joker Reforms
Fecha: 1943.05| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Joker and his men escape Gotham City after stealing a fortune in jewels. Their plane crashes in the Ozarks. Joker goes down with the plane, while his men parachute to safety. The crash gives the Joker amnesia. He finds the jewels and turns them over to police, claiming to be Ed Smith. Batman and Robin trail Joker to the town of Farr Corners. They learn about his amnesia and play along. Joker’s henchmen try to jump Batman, but the Joker helps the Caped Crusaders, proving to Batman that he is honest. Joker eventually remembers where the rest of his loot is hidden. He intends to turn it over to the police, but his henchmen jump him. Batman and Robin save him, but the blow to the head restores the Joker’s memory. Batman apprehends the Joker and his henchmen and recovers the stolen loot.

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The Grade A Crimes
Fecha: 1943.05| Créditos: Ruth Lyons Kauffman (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A series of early morning jewel robberies stump the police. Batman and Robin tangle with a pair of the thieves, but they are unable to apprehend them. Later, Batman realizes that the crooks disguise themselves as milkmen to make their escape. Batman stakes out the next target, then lets the crooks get away. He trails them to a dairy farm, where he and Robin apprehend the gang and recover the jewels.

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The Adventures of the Branded Tree
Fecha: 1943.05| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Alfred, the son of Thomas Wayne’s former butler Jarvis, comes to Wayne Manor to fulfill a promise made to his dying father that he would follow in the family tradition by becoming a “gentleman’s gentleman.” Shortly after his arrival, Alfred, who fancies himself a great amateur detective, accidentally stumbles onto the secret entrance to the Batcave and learns that Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are Batman and Robin. Although Bruce and Dick initially plan to send their bumbling would-be servant away, Alfred convinces them to let him stay on as their butler, cook, chauffeur, and man Friday.

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Here Comes Alfred
Fecha: 1943.05| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Crooks attack a recently arrived passenger from England. Batman and Robin are on hand to fight off the crooks, who manage to escape. The intended victim is an amateur sleuth named Alfred. Later, Alfred arrives at Bruce Wayne’s home. Alfred’s father Jarvis was Bruce’s father’s butler. Alfred intends to carry on in the family tradition. Despite Bruce’s protests Alfred makes himself comfortable. That night the crooks return trying to steal Alfred’s valise. Batman once again chases away the crooks. While Batman follows them, Alfred accidentally discovers the Bat-Cave and the secret identities of the Dynamic Duo. Having trailed the thieves to a music hall, Batman and Robin are captured. Alfred also follows and manages to rescue them. Batman then apprehends the crooks, who are after the crown jewels of Dorian. The Duke of Dorian was a passenger on the ship that carried Alfred. The following evening, Alfred brings Bruce and Dick their uniforms, revealing that he knows their secret identities. Bruce is surprised, but decides to keep the trustworthy man on as his butler.

Notas: Debut de AlfredTierra-2 (Beagle), el cual descubre la identidad de Batman y Robin. Se menciona que el padre de Alfred (Jarvis) ya trabajaba para Thomas. El origen de AlfredTierra-1 se narra en Batman v1 #110 (1957). El origen de Alfred post crisis se narra en Batman annual 13 (1989). Alfred ya había aparecido en el serial de cine de Batman de 1943 por lo que es introducido en los comics para dar coherencia entre ambos medios. En este comic Alfred descubre la cueva que utiliza Batman como base y que será llamada Bat-cueva en Detective Comics v1 #83 (1944).

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The Batman’s Biographer
Fecha: 1943.07| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin meet B. Boswell Browne, a writer that is fascinated with the Dynamic Duo. Browne is compiling a Batman biography and considers himself an expert on the Batman. When a crook called the Conjurer poses as a reporter interviewing Browne, he gathers information that helps him outwit Batman during robberies. Batman realizes that Browne’s information helped the crooks. Browne makes the same deduction when he hears about the robberies. When the conjurer returns, he kidnaps Browne and forces him to help again. This time Browne attempts to sacrifice himself to save Batman. The Caped Crusader is able to defeat the crooks and rescue Browne. The author then goes on to complete his biography on the Batman.

Notas: Debut de The Conjurer

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The Penguin Goes A-Hunting
Fecha: 1943.07| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

After escaping from prison, the Penguin attends a conference given by the warden. The warden claims that Penguin is a third-rate crook, using ridiculous umbrella weapons. Insulted, the Penguin updates his arsenal with an array of guns and fishing poles. Using new tactics he briefly gives Batman some problems. However, Batman defeats his adversary as usual, this time using the Penguin’s former weapon of choice, an umbrella.

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Rogues’ Pageant
Fecha: 1943.07| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Following a tip from a dying crook, Batman and Robin leave Gotham for the town of Santo Pablo. The town is celebrating with a pageant featuring the reenactment of historical events. Using costumes, a gang of crooks led by Ducky Mallard terrorize the town with a series of daring robberies. Batman and Robin work with local police to locate and eventually defeat the gang. Once Ducky is apprehended, the Dynamic Duo return home to Gotham.

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Adventure of the Vitamin Vandals
Fecha: 1943.07| Créditos: Joseph Greene (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A ship of shark fishermen is robbed of their cargo by a group of Phantom Raiders, who appear and disappear from nowhere. Batman and Robin join the crew on the next voyage and learn that the bandits are striking from a camouflaged blimp. The Dynamic Duo is unable to apprehend the crooks, but they trace them back to a warehouse. Batman then exposes fish broker Archie Gibbons as the leader of the mob. He sent the bandits to steal the sharks, rather than paying the fishermen fairly for their work. Batman shuts down the operation, then enjoys a vacation.

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The Secret of Hunter’s Inn
Fecha: 1943.09| Créditos: Joe Samachson (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 900 Novaro.

Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson visit the Hunter’s Inn where several robberies have recently occurred. When they hear cries for help, they go into action as Batman and Robin. They then encounter Dweedledee and Dweedledum who gas the Caped Crusaders. Alfred rescues them and takes them away from the inn. Hours laters when they recover from the gas, Batman and Robin return to the inn and find it full of guests. The manager is an ex-con, but Batman can’t link him to the crimes. Eventually Batman realizes there are two inns. He finds the other inn where the Tweeds are hiding out. Inside he finds controls that switch the roads, drawing visitors to the false inn. Batman uses the controls to swtich roads, allowing the police to find the false inn and arrest the crooks.

Notas: Nuevo enfrentamiento con Dweedledee y Dweedledum. La historia está basada en la novela de misterio «The Lamp of God» (1935).

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Robin Studies His Lessons
Fecha: 1943.09| Créditos: Joe Samachson (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When Dick Grayson brings home a failing report card, Bruce grounds him. Batman goes it alone and falls into a criminal trap. Robin learns that Batman has been captured via belt radio, so he defies orders and comes to the rescue. Using his knowledge of chemistry, Robin battles the crooks and releases Batman. Together they bring down the gang. The next day, Bruce contacts Dick’s teacher and learns that there was a mix-up with the report card, and Dick’s grades are fine.

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The Good Samaritan Cops
Fecha: 1943.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin join the police emergency squad for a day to learn about their activities. The squad does everything from rescuing pets and people to stopping criminals. Batman helps the squad on several assignments. He is impressed by how capable and dedicated the squad is

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The Crime Surgeon
Fecha: 1943.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Crime Surgeon Dr. Thorne escapes from prison and takes his cime clinic across the country. Batman follows him and eventually find his hide-out. However, Robin is captured and shot. Dr. Thorne helps Robin and has Batman take him to the hospital. With Robin out of action, Batman follows Thorne on his own. He catches up to the Crime Surgeon in the middle of another robbery. Thorne tries to escape, but is shot by one of his own men. The man was upset, because Thorne did not prevent his sick wife from dying. Thorne dies, which shuts the crime clinic down permanently.

Notas: Muerte de Crime DoctorTierra-2.

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Batman Makes a Deadline
Fecha: 1943.11| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman rescues reporter Larry Spade from a gang of hitmen. Spade is injured, so Batman helps him by tracking down a lead on his latest story. In the hospital Spade recovers enough to write his expose of a racketeering ring. The crooks again try to silence him, but Batman is waiting for them. Spade’s story is published putting an end to the racketeering ring. Spade lives long enough to see the story printed before passing away.

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Atlantis Goes to War
Fecha: 1943.11| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin search for a hidden Nazi submarine base. Instead they locate a passage to the sunken city of Atlantis. The Nazis have befriended the Atlanteans with lies. Batman is set to be executed, but Robin replaces the emperor and gives him a stay of execution. The Nazis rebel and show that they are just using the Atlanteans. With Batman’s help the Atlanteans defeat the Nazis. Batman and Robin leave the city with the promise not to reveal its location to anyone.

Notas: Batman viaja a Atlantis*. Esta versión de Atlantis es distinta a la aparecida durante la edad de oro en los comics de Superman, Aquaman o Wonder Woman por lo que debió existir más de una civilización que tomó el nombre de Atlantis.

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The Case of the Timid Lion
Fecha: 1943.11| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Joker is framed for putting men with animal names into cages. Mr. Lyon receives a threat, forcing him to hire a bodyguard. However, Lyon is the man behind the crimes and is using the threat to enable him to commit a robbery. Joker becomes angry over the frame-up, so he follows Lyon. Batman also follows Mr. Lyon and runs into the Joker. Both Joker and Lyon get away the first time, but Batman tries again. During their next encounter Joker captures Batman and Lyon and puts them into a lion cage. Batman escapes, and both Joker and Lyon are apprehended.

Notas: Un maleante comete robos copiando el estilo del Joker. Una historia similar se narrará en Detective Comics v1 #85 (1944)

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Collector of Millionaires
Fecha: 1943.11| Créditos: Joe Samachson (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne is kidnapped at a resort, and an imposter replaces him. He is able to get a message to Robin, who breaks him loose. Together the Dynamic Duo stop several other imposters, who have replaced other millionaires. They finish by capturing Ali, the leader of the operation, and by rescuing the kidnapped millionaires.

Notas: Debut de Ali* (criminal).

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The Centuries of Crime
Fecha: 1943.12| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

With the aid of two con artists the Joker plans a scheme to rob two wealthy men. He tells both men that his friends have invented a time machine. Percival Pruitt, a greedy investor, uses the time machine to travel into the future in hopes of making large sums of money. The second victim, bank robber Kid Glove Mixter, takes the trip to the future to escape Batman. Batman learns about the phony time machine and follows Pruitt to the Joker’s lair. He and Robin are then captured by the Joker and taken to the future as prisoners. Pruitt and Mixter don’t like what they find in the future, so they pay the Joker to take them back. Instead of sending them to the present though, Joker sends them to the past. Meanwhile, Batman and Robin escape. They discover that they are on a futuristic movie set, not the real future. They locate Pruitt and Mixter and rescue them from the Joker. Batman apprehends the Joker and his men. The men then realize that they were tricked. Pruitt promises to use his wealth to help the war relief effort, and Mixter promises to reform.»

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The Trial of Titus Keyes
Fecha: 1943.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Titus Keyes is put on trial for a series of safe robberies. Keyes owned a company that manufactured safes and was convicted years earlier of robbery when his company was failing financially. After serving time in prison, Keyes was released. Shortly thereafter the safe robberies began to occur. Batman and Robin catch Keyes with evidence from the robbed safes. He is arrested and put on trial. However, Batman thinks the evidence may have been planted, so he continues to investigate. During the trial, Batman is able to discover that Keyes’s former cellmate George Collins, aka Slick Fingers knew about the safes. Collins then used the information to frame Keyes. Batman exposes the real crook and Keyes is acquitted.

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The Lawmen of the Sea
Fecha: 1943.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin join the harbor police on patrol. They assist the police in battling a gang of harbor pirates, but the crooks evade capture. Later, one of the cops finds the pirate hide-out. Using information overheard at the hide-out, Batman is able to locate the next pirate robbery in progress. Batman is nearly killed trying to apprehend the crooks. Thinking that Batman is dead, Robin jumps into the pirate boat and is quickly captured. However, Batman has survived and ties a line to the pirate boat. Batman and Robin are then take to an undersea pirate hide-out where they are able to defeat the crooks.

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Bruce Wayne Loses the Guardianship of Dick Grayson
Fecha: 1943.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne briefly loses the custody of Dick Grayson when Dick’s unscrupulous uncle, George Grayson, accompanied by a female accomplice posing as his wife, accuses Bruce Wayne of being an unfit guardian. George Grayson’s court challenge is defeated after it is exposed as a scheme to extort $1,000,000 from Bruce, and Bruce regains custody of Dick.

Notas: Debut del malvado tío de Dick, George Grayson.

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The Streamlined Rustlers
Fecha: 1944.03| Créditos: Jack Schiff (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin head west to track down a gang of cattle rustlers. Batman meets the owners of three ranches, each of whom has had their cattle stolen. Batman tracks the rustlers to a windmill, but he is fed loco weed and goes crazy. Robin and the local sheriff help Batman recover. Then Batman proves that Mr. Brule, one of the ranchers is the head of the rustlers.

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Blitzkrieg Bandits
Fecha: 1944.03| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Gang boss Chopper Gant tricks master of military science Hannibal Bonaparte Brown into planning crimes for him. When Batman interferes, Brown comes up with a plan to capture him too. The crooks then try to kill Batman, Robin, and Brown, but Batman escapes in time. Brown then assists the Dynamic Duo in preventing the crooks from robbing a tank factory.

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His Lordship’s Double
Fecha: 1944.03| Créditos: Alvin Schwartz  (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne attends a society party where a visiting British lord is scheduled as the guest of honor. When Bruce meets Lord Burleigh, he is startled to discover that the man is his butler Alfred. Alfred doesn’t reveal his reason for impersonating the lord, so Bruce follows him. Crooks crash into Alfred’s car and try to kill him. Batman and Robin stop them. Alfred then explains that he visited Lord Burleigh earlier in the day. Burleigh is a recluse and thought Alfred was an actor sent to fill in for him at the party. Batman then pays a visit to Burleigh, only to discover the man who hired Alfred was not the British lord. Batman is captured and imprisoned in the basement with the real Lord Burleigh. Batman learns that Stevens, the lord’s assistant, is behind the attacks. Batman tricks the crooks into freeing him. Then he defeats them and rescues Lord Burleigh.

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The Three Eccentrics
Fecha: 1944.03| Créditos: Joseph Greene (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Penguin recruits two out of work thugs to rob a trio of eccentric millionaires. Batman and Robin try to stop Penguin and his henchmen at each of the three robberies. Penguin avoids capture during the first two encounters, but the third victim has been dead for over a year. Penguin fails in the robbery attempt, and Batman apprehends him.

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The Duped Domestics
Fecha: 1944.05| Créditos: Alvin Schwartz  (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Alfred romances a pretty blond maid named Belinda, unaware that she is actually the Catwoman, who is masquerading as a maid in order to ‘case’ wealthy homes. After helping to capture the Catwoman, Alfred, still dressed as Batman, gives her a sound spanking before turning her over to police!

Notas: Primera vez que Alfred se disfraza de Batman con el fin de engañar a Catwoman. Catwoman aparece con el pelo castaño, usa el nombre falso de Belinda. Alfred comenzará a tener una historia de complemento propio hasta Batman v1 #36 (1946). En los comics de superman Lois Lane comenzará a tener un complemento en el mes siguiente.

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Dick Grayson, Telegraph Boy
Fecha: 1944.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Dick Grayson gets a job delivering telegrams. When he delivers one to an observatory, he recognizes the man receiving it as a criminal. He checks Batman’s crime files and learns the man is Mike Optik. Batman finds Dick searching the files and also learns about Dick’s new job. Dick won’t tell him why he took the job, but together they track down Optik. The crook is using the observatory’s telescope to spy on Gotham City. Using information his gang obtains, Optik is able to commit stunning robberies. Batman and Robin stop him and the gang. Dick then returns to his delivery job where he delivers a singing telegram to Bruce Wayne for his birthday. He explains that he wanted to earn money to buy Bruce a nice gift.

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The Cavalier Rides Again
Fecha: 1944.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Cavalier returns by baiting a trap for Batman and Robin. He captures the duo, but he allows them to escape, leaving a clue to his next caper behind. Batman deciphers the clue and deduces that the Cavalier will attempt to steal a rare jewel. This time Batman defeats the Cavalier’s gang and stops the robbery, but once again the crook eludes capture. Batman also discovers that the Cavalier was not after the jewel itself, but a worthless model of it. The crooks motives puzzle Batman. He knows they will cross paths again.

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The Upside-Down Crimes
Fecha: 1944.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Inspired by a visit to a funhouse, the Joker begins a series of upside down crimes. He steals a priceless gem from Prince Rageel, capturing Batman and stealing the Bat-plane in the process. Batman is placed in a trap, but he turns the tables on the Joker. He leaves the crook for the police, then returns the stolen gem. Joker escapes before the police arrive and continues his upside down crimes. Batman deciphers the clues which lead to a party where guests are costumed as movie stars. Joker’s gang strikes, but Batman breaks up the robbery, apprehending the Joker again.

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Damsel in Distress
Fecha: 1944.07| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Wounded gangster Bugs Conklin kidnaps Dr. Davenport, a surgeon. To ensure that Davenport cooperates, the crooks also kidnap Davenport’s daughter Marjory. Dick Grayson notices Marjory’s absence when he attempts to pick her up for a date. Dr. Davenport slips a coded message to Dick to bring help. Dick contacts Batman, then tries to rescue Marjory as Robin. He fails and Batman is captured too, but Robin breaks free. He gives Batman enough time to recover, then together they apprehend Bugs and his gang. Marjory and her father are saved, but Marjory is now enamored with Robin instead of Dick.

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Pelt Plunderers
Fecha: 1944.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

While vacationing in Canada, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson happen across a gang of fur robbers. They intervene as Batman and Robin. The Dynamic Duo finds the robbers are part of a larger operation of city crooks. Batman teams with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to round up the gang and put a stop to their criminal operations.

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It Happened in Rome
Fecha: 1944.09| Créditos: Joe Samachson (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne is hypnotized as part of an experiment by Professor Carter Nichols. Bruce finds himself transported to ancient Rome. He witnesses a man being beaten on the streets and intervenes as Batman. Soldiers working for Publius Malchio arrest Batman and throw him in prison. Still in the present, Dick Grayson senses trouble and has Professor Nichols hypnotize him as well. Dick arrives in Rome and helps Batman break out of jail along with a court jester. Batman, Robin, and the Jester then help Gito, the charioteer, who is attacked by Malchio’s men. Gito is injured, so Batman replaces him in the chariot race. After winning the race and a duel with a gladiator, Batman forces Malchio into exile. Following the adventure, Bruce and Dick are brought out of the hypnotic spell and return to the present.

Notas: Primer Viaje en el tiempo de Batman y Robin, debut del Professor Carter Nichols*Tierra-2. La contrapartida de Nichols. DeTierra-1 aparecerá en Brave and the Bold #171 (02.1981).

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Convict Cargo
Fecha: 1944.09| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Alfred tries to return a package to a woman from the district attorney’s office, but she refuses to take it back. Alfred takes the package to Bruce Wayne, who opens it and deciphers a coded message inside. The message indicates that Sam Caldwin, a banker, is scheduled to be arrested. Batman visits Caldwin, only to discover the man is an embezzler. A gang of crooks helps smuggle Caldwin out of the country. Batman is delayed and fails to stop them. Commissioner Gordon tells Batman that the gang has been in operation for some time. To smoke out the crooks, Bruce Wayne pretends to be an embezzler too. The crooks approach him and try to smuggle him out of the country. On board a ship, they double-cross Bruce and throw him in the ocean. Robin rescues him. Then Batman and Robin apprehend the gang.

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The Mayors of Yonville
Fecha: 1944.09| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Tweedledee and Tweedledum are elected mayors of Yonville. Batman and Robin expect trouble, but the Tweeds jail two bank robbers in accordance with the law. However, the Tweeds also jail Batman and Robin for violating a city ordinance while apprehending the crooks. While Batman and Robin are in jail, the Tweeds salt and old gold mine. They then offer the mine to the town in exchange for money to mine the gold. The town gives the Tweeds all their money. Before the crooks can skip town, Batman breaks out of jail and apprehends them. He explains the circumstances to the town and also shows them that the mine did contain gold. The Tweeds are taken to prisoner, and the townspeople recover their investments

Notas: Ultima aparición de Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum en la edad de oro. Sus contrapartidas deTierra-1 aparecerá en Batman v1 #291 (9/77)

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The Knights of Knavery
Fecha: 1944.11| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Las mejores historias de Batman 1 (Zinco).

After being captured by Batman, the Penguin is sent to prison where he shares a cell with the Joker. The two crooks each claim to be the best in town and a rivalry begins. They escape from prison then compete to steal a valuable emerald. Batman plans a trap for them using the emerald as bait. Both crooks fall into the trap, but manage to escape. After the incident, the crooks decide to join forces against the Batman. The Joker-Penguin alliance proves a successful venture. The police and Batman are both unable to keep up with the crooks. Batman and Robin are eventually captured, but an argument enuses between the crooks. Batman plays the crooks off each other allowing him time to escape. Then he and Robin apprehend both crooks and send them back to jail where they vow to work alone on future crimes.

Notas: Primera alianza entre dos villanos (Joker y el Pingüino) contra Batman.

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The Sheik of Gotham City
Fecha: 1944.11| Créditos: Alvin Schwartz (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Sheik Omar El Kobra learns that the exiled sheik Sidi Ben Hassen is alive and working as a cab driver in Gotham City. Kobra has usurped Hassen’s rule, so he and his assassins travel to Gotham to finish off the rightful sheik. Sidi Ben Hassen is injured while helping Batman apprehend some crooks. Batman drives Hassen’s cab back to the garage, while the driver is taken to the hospital. He then becomes entangled in the assassination attempt, when Omar and his men mistake him for Hassen. Though he is tied up, Batman manages to send a signal to Robin. The Boy Wonder arrives in time to help Batman beat the assassins. When Hassen recovers from his injuries, he is restored to rightful rule.

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The Kilowatt Cowboys
Fecha: 1944.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin are contacted by the power company to help battle a gang of copper thieves. Batman meets two of the linemen Alec and Jack. Both are experts at their jobs, but they have a long-running feud. With the help of the feuding workers, Batman and Robin capture the copper thieves. During the adventure, Alec and Jack are able to help each other. Their feud is finally ended, and the two become friends.

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Twenty Ton Robbery
Fecha: 1944.12| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Cavalier assumes a new secret identity as Albert Foster. He then puts together a new gang and begins a crime spree. When he encounters Batman and Robin, the Cavalier is prepared by having children mob the Caped Crusader for his autograph. Cavalier is then able to escape with Robin as a prisoner. When they reach the Cavalier’s hide-out, Robin calls Batman on his belt-radio. The Cavalier then leaves Robin in a trap and waits for Batman to arrive. Robin warns Batman before he springs a trap that would kill them both. Batman and Robin then find the Cavalier stealing a whale from a museum. Though the villain gets away with the whale, Batman has little trouble finding him. Batman finally brings Cavalier down and takes him to jail.»Batman and Robin then find the Cavalier stealing a whale from a museum. Though the villain gets away with the whale, Batman has little trouble finding him. Batman finally brings Cavalier down and takes him to jail.

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The Year 3000
Fecha: 1944.12| Créditos: Joseph Greene (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

In the year 3000, Earth is invaded by Saturn. The people are unable to fight back after enjoying more than a century of peace. One man, Brane, tries to convince the people to stand up and fight the invaders. The people are too scared to listen. Brane adopts the costume and identity of the 20th century hero, Batman. His young friend Ricky joins him in the role of Robin. Together they rally the people and overthrow the invaders. Brane then leads his people to Saturn to stop the enemy. After winning the war, Brane discovers that the Saturnian invaders were merely robots controlled by a tyrant named Fura. The real Saturnians are peaceful.

Notas: Debut del Batman del año 3.000 (Brane, un descendiente de Bruce Wayne) y su joven compañero Ricky.

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Crime Comes to Lost Mesa
Fecha: 1944.12| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Monk Bardo and Randy Roose escape from prison. They hide out in the mesas inhabited by the Pueblo indians. Batman and Robin follow the crooks and are brought into a Pueblo city by Nachee, a young boy. Mordu the tribal medicine man has thrown in with the crooks in order to take over control of the tribe from Chief Tolto. Batman and Robin are thrown in a pit and set to be executed, but Nachee helps them escape. The Caped Crusaders expose Mordu’s plot and take the crooks back into custody. They leave the tribe as friends.

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The Penguin’s New Apprentice
Fecha: 1945.03| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Penguin trains the son of one of his criminal friends in the fine points of crime. The boy doesn’t want to be a criminal and fails. Penguin orders the boy to study his crime files, which the boy uses to write a book. Penguin decides to sell the book to the underworld, but no publisher will take it. Penguin steals a truckload of paper, intending to publish the book himself. Batman and Robin are captured while trying to stop the robbery. While Penguin visits a counterfeiter to print the book, Batman and Robin escape. They track down the Penguin with the help of Penguin’s apprentice. After the Penguin’s capture, Batman arranges for the book to be published to illustrate that crime does not pay»

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Voyage Into Villainy
Fecha: 1945.03| Créditos: Joe Samachson (Guiones), Jack Burnley (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Members of the Explorers’ Club try to decipher clues left behind by the late explorer John Svenson. Mr. Challoner claims to have deciphered the clues that will lead to Svenson’s fortune. However, he is murdered before finding it. Batman hears a cry for help and finds Challoner’s murdered body. He suspects one of the other explorers is the killer, so he leads the hunt for Svenson’s clues. When the killer strikes again to kill Batman, the Caped Crusader exposes him as explorer Felix Landry. Batman then finishes solving Svenson’s puzzle, retrieving the fortune. Rather than keep the money, Batman gives it to charity.»

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A Christmas Peril
Fecha: 1945.03| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 978 Novaro.

Batman and Robin stop a gang of racketeers who have cornered the market on Christmas trees. The boss behind the scheme in Happy Hoggsby, who is backed by boy millionaire Scranton Loring. Batman and Robin pay a visit to Loring’s mansion, where they find that Scranton is a young miser. Batman and Robin take Scranton around town and show him how the racketeers have ruined the lives of innocent people. Scranton begins to see that he has mistreated people. Meanwhile, his assistants, Gulliver and Eggers, have stolen Scranton’s fortune. When Scranton visits Hoggsby, he learns about the betrayal. The crooks plan to eliminate Scranton, but Batman and Robin save him. Then Scranton joins Batman, Robin, and his uncle Timothy in delivering Christmas presents to the people hurt by the racketeers»

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Shadow City
Fecha: 1945.05| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Millionaire Bet-a-Million Bannister is taken to a secret part of Gotham called Shadow City where he can partake in gambling. Bannister learns the casino is run by the Joker and threatens to tell the police. Joker’s men try to kill Bannister, but Batman stops them. Batman tries to locate Shadow City, but he can’t find its secret location. When another millionaire, Felix Lathrop, mentions the city, Batman and Robin follow him. They shut down Joker’s gambling casino and other illegal operations, closing Shadow City permanently.»

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Shirley Holmes, Policewoman
Fecha: 1945.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Alfred meets policewoman Shirley Holmes while walking in the park. When he returns to Wayne Manor and tells Bruce about her, Bruce decides to send Shirley undercover to expose a racketeering operation. Shirley successfully infiltrates the mob. They agree to take Shirley to their hideout, but just then Alfred walks by and blows her cover. Shirley is taken prisoner, but Batman and Robin come to her aid. They rescue her and shut down the racketeers.»

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Batman Goes to Washington
Fecha: 1945.05| Créditos: Alvin Schwartz (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin meet an out-of-luck ex-con named Danny the Dip. Batman is inspired by Danny’s story to speak up for ex-cons having trouble finding work. Senator Vandercook hears Batman’s speech and asks him to come to Washington to speak before Congress. On the way to the congressional hearing, Batman is assaulted by several gang bosses who don’t want their underlings to go straight. Batman is captured before he can testify, but Danny and three other ex-cons rescue him. Then they capture the gang leaders, turning them over to the FBI. Batman testifies to Congress, which helps pass a bill to build factories which will employee ex-cons.»

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Enemy No. 1
Fecha: 1945.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Adam Frank is a man obsessed with being first. When a book collector refuses to sell him a first edition book, Frank turns to crime. He recruits a gang to serve as henchmen, then begins to steal in order to satisfy his need to be first. Batman and Robin eventually catch up to Frank. After escaping a trap set by the crook, Batman catches Frank and his gang during a museum robbery.

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Heroes by Proxy
Fecha: 1945.07| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 846 Novaro.

While Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, and Alfred are away on a fishing vacation, crooks rob Wayne Manor. Batman and Robin’s efforts to apprehend the thieves are complicated when Hawke and Wrenn, a pair of down-at-heels private detectives, try to shore up their business by masquerading as Batman and Robin

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The Mails Go Through
Fecha: 1945.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When Batman and Robin apprehend a gang of jewel thieves, a postman is wounded in the crossfire. Batman takes over delivering the mail, while Robin escorts the postman to the hospital. When Batman delivers a letter to a patent attorney, he stumbles upon the Scuttler, a criminal mastermind from the West. Batman is unable to apprehend the Scuttler, but he deduces where the crook will strike next. Scuttler tries to disrupt the mail system to steal a registered letter. Batman delays his opponent with a sleeping gas cartridge. Then he and Robin apprehend the crook. Due to the action of the Dynamic Duo, the mail is delivered correctly.»

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Back to the House
Fecha: 1945.09| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Penguin escapes jail and successfully pulls off his first robbery. Batman plans a trap for Penguin by luring him to the zoo. The trap fails to net the Penguin, but Batman finds a clue to the Penguin’s next crime. When the Caped Crusaders try to stop the crook, they are surprised by Penguin’s henchmen. They escape a death-trap, then track down Penguin and successfully apprehend him.

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While the City Sleeps
Fecha: 1945.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Mej. Hist. ED Zinco.

While on patrol, Batman and Robin interrupt Joe Jones, a former crook, returning his stolen loot to the owners. Joe admits to stealing the money, but he has been convinced to go straight by his girl friend. Batman is pleased that Joe had reformed, but Joe’s former boss Hush-Hush Bodin tries to take back the loot. Joe is shot in the fight, so Batman takes him to the hospital. Batman promises Joe to return the rest of the stolen loot, but Hush-Hush strikes again. He takes the money from Batman, then tries to finish off Joe. Batman and Robin stop Hush-Hush and his gang, and finally return all the stolen money.»

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Ally Babble and the Forty Peeves
Fecha: 1945.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Millionaire Jasper Quinch meets a talkative troublemaker named Ally Babble. Ally quiets one of Quinch’s noisy neighbors, so Quinch hires Babble to handle some of his other pet peeves. Ally travels around town working on Quinch’s list. Authorities, including Batman, think Babble is a lunatic. Two crooks named Hoiman and Shoiman use the chaos Babble creates as a distraction for their robberies. Batman nabs the crooks and stops Babble’s activities. Quinch apologizes for hiring Babble, who has become his latest pet peeve.

Notas: Debut de Ally Babble* (villano que convence a la gente)

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Punch and Judy
Fecha: 1945.11| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin visit a travelling carnival that has set up in Gotham City. They observe the concession vendors cheating the customers, so Batman steps in and begins winning the prizes for the kids. The concession vendors work for the carnival managers Punch and Judy. After Batman’s intervention, the vendors quit, so Punch and Judy hire Batman to perform, claiming that proceeds will go to charity. Batman performs for the carnival, but he suspects that Punch and Judy are planning something dishonest. The pair hire a man, Pete, to rob the box office. Robin interrupts the robbery, but Pete captures him. Pete also attempts to kill Batman. Fortunately, Batman suspected trouble and escapes injury. He captures Pete, frees Robin, and turns Punch and Judy over to the authorities.»

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Vanishing Village
Fecha: 1945.11| Créditos: Joe Samachson (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 848 Novaro.

Batman and Robin capture the gang of Knuckles Donegan, but the gang leader gets away. They find a clue which ties Donegan to a town in Florida which has mysteriously vanished. Batman disguises himself as Donegan and keeps an appointment Knuckles had with some other crooks. Batman is taken to the missing town, which has been relocated to the Everglades as a hide-out for crooks. Robin follows his partner and summons the police. Then Batman and the police apprehend the underworld thugs including the real Knuckles.

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Trade Marks of Crime
Fecha: 1945.11| Créditos: Joseph Greene (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin use their crime files to determine the men behind several robberies. When one of them has an alibi, Batman realizes that someone is using their trademark criminal methods. He suspects the cleaning woman responsible for the police records room and questions her. The woman denies the charges, but evidence at her home convinces Batman that she is guilty. Batman returns and is captured by the cleaning woman and her men. He escapes and tracks down the woman’s mob on their next robbery. He then arrests the cleaning woman, having gained evidence against her and the men who were framed.»

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Rackety-Rax Racket
Fecha: 1945.12| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Joker plans a new series of jewel capers, using college initiations pranks as a theme. When Batman intervenes, the Caped Crusader is captured. Robin is then forced to undergo humiliating initiation pranks in order to save Batman’s life. Eventually Batman frees himself from Joker’s clutches. Together, the Dynamic Duo then apprehends the Joker and his men.

Notas: Linda Page abandona a Bruce Wayne debido a su vida disoluta de play boy. Ultima aparición de de Linda Page en la edad de oro. Su siguiente aparición será en Brave and the Bold #197 (4/83) describiendo eventos de 1955. El título del la narración está inspirado en la película “Rackety Rax” (1932).

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Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder
Fecha: 1945.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

After Batman helps Dick Grayson earn his vengeance by captured the killers responsible for the death of the Flying Graysons, Batman plans to send Dick back to the circus. Dick pleads to continue on as Robin. Batman gives him a chance to prove himself. Robin’s chance comes when Stick-Up Sidney and his gang begin a crime spree. Batman and Robin track down the gang, but Robin is taken hostage. Batman is forced to surrender the fight. Robin is released when the police close in, but Batman remains the prisoner of the gang. On his own, Robin examines clues at the crime scene to track down the gang. When he finds their hide-out, he uses a distraction which allows him the opportunity to release Batman. Together Batman and Robin apprehend the gang. Robin believes he has failed because he made a mistake, but Batman commends him for rectifying the error. Robin is then rewarded by becoming Batman’s permanent partner.»

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All for One, One for All
Fecha: 1945.12| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Professor Carter Nichols uses hypnosis to transport Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson 300 years into the past. They arrive in Paris where they chance upon meeting D’Artagnan and the Three Museketeers. D’Artagnan is injured during a fight with Richelieu’s guards, so Batman takes his place. Batman then rescues the lady Constance and prevents her from being poisoned to death as was recorded by history. When D’Artagnan recovers, Batman abandons his disguise and returns with Robin to his own time.

Notas: Batman viaja al siglo 17 y conoce a los 3 Mosqueteros

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Crime on the Wing
Fecha: 1946.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Win Mortimer (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Melancholy Mike, Willie the Wag, and Ralph the Rook dream of a way to decoy Batman away from their crimes. They make a bet with Penguin, so the Fowl Felon draws attention away from them. Their first crime succeeds since it coincides with the Penguin’s. When they strike again, Batman and Robin split up. Batman tracks down Penguin, but Robin is defeated by the trio of thugs. Penguin escapes from Batman and deduces that he was double-crossed. He sets his own trap for the trio, sending Batman to stop them. Meanwhile Robin escapes from captivity and defeats the Penguin by himself.»

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The Looters
Fecha: 1946.03| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Win Mortimer (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A gang known as the Looters strike around the country whenever natural disasters strike. When they learn that Professor Dorry Leaf has created a machine that can predict earthquakes, the leader of the Looters, the Jackal, takes advantage. Batman follows up on a lead to Professor Leaf in Coast City and is captured by the Looters. Leaf’s machine predicts an earthquake will soon strike the city. Batman is able to escape and stop the Looters from robbing the town during the disaster. Leaf is able to overcome his own fear of earthquakes to help.

Notas: Debut de The JackalTierra-2

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The Search for Santa Claus
Fecha: 1946.03| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Win Mortimer (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman hires three discouraged men to play Santa Claus for children. One of the men is James Jocelyn, a wealthy man recently escaped from an asylum. His greedy relatives had him declared insane and committed him. When the relatives learn about Jocelyn’s escape, they track him down. Unsure of which Santa is their target, they kidnap all three. Batman and Robin try to stop them from killing Jocelyn. Another one of the Santa’s tricks the crooks with an acting performance. The would-be killers are then captured by Batman. All three Santa’s have their spirits brightened by helping others.

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The Marathon of Menace
Fecha: 1946.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Marty Steele has set many speed records throughout his life. Now that he is older, he sponsors a race across the country by land, sea, and air. Batman and Robin decide to use the race to test new equipment, thought they don’t officially enter. George Kale, the president of Lightning Motors, hires men to sabotage the other contestants, allowing his niece to win. Batman helps the stricken drivers and stops the saboteurs. A masked contestant, who turns out to be Marty Steele, wins the race. He awards the money to the second place finisher, a blind man, Roy Damon.

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Ally Babble and the Four Tealeaves
Fecha: 1946.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Ally Babble has his fortune read from tea leaves by Madame Patio. Believing the fortune will come true Ally allows the leaves to blow in the wind to lead him to his destiny. The first leaf brings him fortune, when he comes across a trolley robbery. He creates a commotion which attracts Batman, who stops the crime. Next Ally finds love, but the girl is ugly and Ally doesn’t like her. Then he interrupts a radium robbery, once again bringing him to the attention of Batman. His final fortune is to make his friends happy. This is completed when he loses his voice, making everyone around grateful.»

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The Master vs. the Pupil
Fecha: 1946.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

One day Robin appears to be getting cocky, so Batman challenges him to a game. Batman pretends to be a thief, and Robin must find him. Robin successfully follows clues that Batman has left behind, but Batman captures him. Batman places Robin in a cage, but Robin breaks loose. He then captures Batman and proves himself.

Notas: Robin realiza la prueba de encontrar a su mentor en 24 horas. La historia posiblemente sirve de inspiración al comic «Batman Chronicles: The Gauntlet» (1999).

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Nine Lives Has the Catwoman
Fecha: 1946.07| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 787 Novaro.

Catwoman escapes jail by hypnotizing the guards. Next she rebuilds her gang by making them believe she has nine live and can’t be killed. Batman tries to catch her, but each time the villainess escapes through death-defying means. Batman arrests one of Catwoman’s henchmen Mousey Mager. When Mousey won’t talk, the police release him, and Batman follows him to Catwoman’s lair. Batman then escapes a trap and follows the Catwoman to her next robbery. This time he apprehends her gang. Again Catwoman appears to perish, but this time she does not resurface immediately

Notas: Catwoman cambia de uniforme por uno púrpura y verde. Misteriosamente en el comics es presentada con el pelo rubio

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Dinosaur Island
Fecha: 1946.07| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman agrees to be the prey in a mock big game hunt on the newly constructed dinosaur island. When the dinosaur robots appear to be playing a little rough, Batman learns that the controller has been replaced by a crook. Batman and Robin struggle to stay alive while being hunted, but eventually they turn the tables on their pursuer and capture the intended assassin.

Notas: Introducción de la figura gigante de un dinosaurio de la Batcueva.

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Dick Grayson, Author
Fecha: 1946.07| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Big Ed Conroy is released from jail and decides to go straight. He hires other ex-cons to create a payroll messenger service. When crooks try to hijack their payrolls, Batman helps Ed clear his name by disguising himself as a messenger. Batman exposes Duke Ryall as the man behind the robberies and apprehends his gang. Conroy continues his service with Batman’s blessing. After the case is complete, Dick Grayson uses the facts to write a comic book story for Crescent Comics. His story is accepted and he becomes a published writer.

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The Penguin’s Nest
Fecha: 1946.09| Créditos: Alvin Schwartz (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Penguin opens a restaurant in an upscale section of Gotham City. When rich people dine in the restaurant, he gets copies of their signatures. Then he tries to have himself arrested. Batman deduces that the Penguin is trying to have the signatures forged by an incarcerated criminal. Batman and Commissioner Gordon conspire to keep the Penguin out of jail, until Batman tricks the Penguin with a phony signature. When Penguin finally gets his forgery made, the signature is incorrect, so he is arrested for fraud.

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Stand-In for Danger
Fecha: 1946.09| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin are summoned to Hollywood to apprehend stunt man turned criminal Jerry McGlone. Jerry reenacts several stunts from his latest film, using them to committ robberies. Batman tangles with the stunt man and eventually captures him. He realizes that Jerry was injured during a movie stunt. The head injury caused him to believe he was the crook from the movie script. Batman takes him to a doctor, where Jerry can be rehabilitated.

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Sir Batman at King Arthur’s Court
Fecha: 1946.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Professor Nichols sends Bruce and Dick back in time to Camelot to discover the secret of Sir Hardi Le Noir. When they arrive, they protect Merlin’s niece Aline from Sir Mordred and his men. Batman and Robin are then brought to King Arthur where Batman defeats Mordred in personal combat. Batman, Robin, Lancelot, and Aline then try to rescue Merlin, who is a prisoner of Morgan Le Fay. Batman’s modern science is thought to be wizardry, and he completes the mission, though Le Fay escapes. Afterwards, Arthur awards Batman a knighthood, naming him Sir Hardi Le Noir, the Bold Black Knight.»

Notas: Batman conoce al Rey Arturo.

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Calling Dr. Batman
Fecha: 1946.11| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman prevents a radium robbery at Gotham Hospital. During his fight with the crooks, Batman is shot in the knee. The bullet shatters his kneecap. Batman then leaves and returns as Bruce Wayne, claiming to have been wounded while cleaning a gun. During his stay at the hospital, Batman learns that the radium was actually stolen, though not by the gunmen. Despite his injury, Batman investigates, finds the missing radium, and the thief. Nurse Noreen O’Day suspects Bruce is Batman, but he throws her off by changing the pattern of his heart beat to throw off her test.»

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Hollywood Hoax
Fecha: 1946.11| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

While Batman is in Hollywood shooting an anti-crime movie, crooks steal the film cannister containing a new movie produced by the studio. The crooks try to blackmail the studio for the film. Batman plans a trap for the crooks, but it fails. However, he does recover the film. Learning it is a flop, Batman suspects the director was involved in the theft. He gains proof against the director, then apprehends him along with his hired thieves.

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The Joker Follows Suit
Fecha: 1946.11| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Jerry Robinson (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

After escaping from jail, the Joker creates his own versions of Batman’s equipment including: a Jokermobile, Joker Signal, and Jokergyro helicopter. Joker then sells his services to crooks, who use the Joker Signal to summon him when then run into problems. After a failed attempt to stop the Joker, Batman uses several Joker Signals to lure the crook out of hiding. Then he follows him back to his hide-out. However, Joker beats Batman and steals the Batmobile. Batman escapes a trap, then uses the Jokermobile to hunt down and capture the Joker, returning him to prison.»

Notas: Debut del 1er Jokermovil y Jokerplano

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Peril in Greece
Fecha: 1946.12| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin go back in time to ancient Greece to witness the first Olympic Games. Batman befriends several of the athletes from Athens. When a group of Persians try to disrupt the games in order to start a civil war, Batman and the athletes work together to prevent it. Batman and Robin both compete in place of injured athletes, returning to the present with souvenir trophies of their experience.

Notas: Batman viaja en el tiempo a la antigua Atenas

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The Carbon Copy Crimes
Fecha: 1946.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A series of murders duplicate those surrounding Batman’s first big case six years earlier. Portraits are disfigured, then the subjects of the portraits are murdered. Batman decides to use the same trap to catch this killer. The killer arrives on schedule, but has planned for Batman’s arrival on the scene. He takes Batman and Robin prisoner and reveals that he is a psychologist conducting a test. He wants to see if Batman’s initial success in his first big case was the secret of his career. Batman then tricks the killer by revealing his secret identity. A delayed radio broadcast with Batman’s voice seems to prove that he is not Batman, and that the psychologist trapped the wrong man. Upset that his test has failed, the psychologist kills himself, ending the case just as the original ended.»

Notas: Esta historia hace referencia a la aventura vivida en Detective Comics #42 (1940)

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The Penguin on Parole
Fecha: 1946.12| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Penguin saves the life of a prison warden after an accident sets fire to the prison. As a result the Penguin is paroled into the custody of Batman and Robin. Penguin tries to go straight, but when he sees a cartoon lampooning penguins, he gets angry. Determined to regain respect, he stages a big crime based on the cartoon. Batman stops him and returns him to prison. Penguin is happy to have his respect back, until the prison shows another of the penguin cartoons.

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The Frightened People
Fecha: 1947.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Gang chief Roger Ryall visits a psychiatrist to help overcome his fear of cats. Seeing fear as a means to enact crimes, Roger steals the doctor’s files. He takes the information about the fears of patients and uses it to extort money from them. Batman learns about the death of Grant Young following a meeting with Ryall. Dr. Richter, Ryall’s psychiatrist, comes forward and tells Batman about the stolen files. Batman is then able to predict Ryall’s next target. Batman and Robin then use cats to scare Ryall into surrendering. The crook has a heart attack and dies, but Batman rounds up his gang.»

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The Man in the Iron Mask
Fecha: 1947.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When gangland learns that Iron-Hat Ferris has leaked information to the police, a gang boss welds an iron mask onto the snitch’s head. Wanted by police and exiled by gangland, Ferris seeks to get the mask removed while Batman closes in on him. Luckily for him, Ferris manages to escape. Ferris’s escape embarrasses the office of the district attorney. A district attorney candidate Henry Kendall plays up the failure in the media. Kendall then locates Ferris on his own and removes the mask. Kendall then wears the mask and commits crimes to further embarrass the police. Batman tracks him down after following a tracking device he has planted on the man. Batman learns the scheme and rescues Ferris. Kendall runs away, but is struck down when a lightning bolt strikes the iron mask.»

Notas: Debut de Iron-Hat Ferris.

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A Christmas Tale
Fecha: 1947.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Catwoman abducts three cats from their owners to use in her latest crimes. Batman questions the owners, then pursues Catwoman. By using each cat’s special attributes, Catwoman successfully pulls off her first two crimes. However, when she attempts the third, Batman captures her and returns the cats to their owners.

Notas: Catwoman intenta forjar una alianza con Batman

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The 13 Club
Fecha: 1947.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A group of men join together as the 13 Club to disprove well-known superstitions. The Joker decides to use the club as the target for his next crimes. Batman joins the club as the 13th member and tries to stop Joker from using superstitions against the club members. With the help of a few good luck superstitions, Batman escapes a trap set by his foe, then defeats the clown.

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The Case of Batman II
Fecha: 1947.05| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When Bruce Wayne dies in an accident, Robin and Alfred are forced to find a new Batman. They enlist a gymnast named Bill Randall, who replaces the Caped Crusader. The new Batman and Robin then defeat the gang of escaped convict Beetle Boles with help from Alfred. Later, when Bruce’s will is read, he turns up alive. He faked his death in order to expose his lawyer who doctored the will. Bruce was really Bill Randall all along. Robin was in on the trick, but Alfred was not in order for his grief to fool the lawyer.»

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The Grand Opera Murders
Fecha: 1947.05| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin witness an accident at the opera which kills two actors. The star of the show Colin Vanning believes that someone was trying to kill him. Batman investigates and does discover a killer. He acts to prevent several more accidents on the stage. Finally he discovers that Vanning himself was the killer. Vanning was already deathly ill, so he wanted to go out in an uproar. As his final act, Vanning commits suicide by singing a note which causes his heart to burst.

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The Bird Cage Bandits
Fecha: 1947.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Penguin is released from prison and opens a bird shop. He gives birds to prominent citizens, which draws the suspicion of Batman. Hidden inside the bird cages are explosives which allow Penguin to rob the men. Batman tries to stop the last explosion, but he is knocked out by a gas bomb. Robin revives him and together they chase down the Penguin and his gang. They track him using a bird of their own, then they return him to prison.

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The Bandits of Tiny Town
Fecha: 1947.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Moose Miller and his gang hide-out in Midget City, a town inhabited by midgets. The crooks force the midgets to work for them and assist in their robberies. Batman and Robin follow one of the midgets back to the town, where they discover the hide-out. The crooks try to kill Batman before leaving for their next crime. Batman survives and enlists the aid of the midgets in tracking down the crooks. Working together Batman and the midgets bring Moose and his gang to justice.»

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Batman, Interplanetary Policeman
Fecha: 1947.07| Créditos: Gardner Fox (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A martian lands on Earth and requests Batman’s aid against a band of martian criminals. Batman and Robin fly to Mars where they are attacked by Sax Gola and his men. Batman escapes the attack and tracks down Gola. The crooks uses a crime-ray on Batman turning him into a criminal. Batman leads the group’s next raid, but he secretly tricks them. The crime-ray did not work because Batman was wearing a lead-lined helmet. He springs the trap, forcing the martians to surrender. Having completed their mission, Batman and Robin then return to Earth.

Notas: Batman y Robin viajan a Marte por primera vez, donde se enfrentan con Sax Gola, el siguiente viaje a Marte se produce en Batman v1 #78 (08.1953).

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The Claws of the Catwoman
Fecha: 1947.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Charles Paris (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Catwoman escapes from jail with the help of her gang. She then begins a string of robberies based on fictional tales about cats. Batman interprets the pattern behind Catwoman’s clues and locates her at her next robbery. Catwoman defeats the Dynamic Duo and traps them behind a brick wall. Batman uses Catwoman’s own pet cat, Hecate, to escape. He then finds Catwoman again. This time he defeats her and returns her to prison.

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Blind Man’s Bluff
Fecha: 1947.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), C. Paris/C. Swan (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Police officer Dan Grady is trapped on a life raft with mobster Duds Neery. Believing that they will never be rescued, Grady tells Duds about his suspicion that Bruce Wayne is Batman. The men are rescued, and Duds sets out to prove Grady’s theory. Bruce is involved in an accident which leaves him blind for 72 hours. During that time Duds tries to prove that Batman is also blind. Using a variety of tricks, Batman is able to fool the crooks and not reveal his blindness. Batman is able to capture Duds and protect his identity at the same time.»

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The Robot Robbers
Fecha: 1947.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Charles Paris (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Scientist Dr. Hercules breaks three prisoners out of jail. Her puts the convicts to work controlling robots that he has designed for crime. Batman encounters the first robot and fails to stop it. However, he deduces that the escaped cons are at the controls. He manages to destroy the second robot. When the third robot attacks, Batman sets a trap that causes it to be destroyed and it’s crooked controllers to be immobilized.

Notas: Debut de Dr. Hercules

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The Blackbird of Banditry
Fecha: 1947.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

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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Next Stop – Danger
Fecha: 1947.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

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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The Four Horsemen of Crime
Fecha: 1947.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

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.»

Notas: Debut de Martin Bain* (jefe mafioso)

Batman v1 #44
Gamble with Doom
Fecha: 1947.12| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Joker becomes obsessed with gambling. He kidnaps two radium thieves, then lures Batman and Robin into a trap. He forces Batman to gamble for the lives of the thieves and Robin in games of chance. Batman outwits Joker in each of the games, so the clown is forced to double-cross his foe. Batman squares off against Joker in a giant roulette wheel, but once again Batman prevails. Joker apparently falls to his death, and Batman saves the lives of those in danger.

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Born for Adventure
Fecha: 1947.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bill Jordan has studied his entire life to become an archaeologist and adventurer. When he is invited on an African expedition, he fails his physical due to a heart condition. Bill is forced to take a job at the museum and miss the excitement. An international thief known as the Globetrotter has come to Gotham City. Batman and Robin trail the crook and meet Jordan in the process. Jordan helps the Dynamic Duo track and capture the crooks. Jordan’s heart handles the excitement of the chase, so he is retested. The doctor discovers his original prognosis was wrong, and Jordan is cleared to join the expedition.»

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The First American Detective
Fecha: 1947.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne is confounded by a mystery surrounding his ancestor Silas Wayne. Silas was a silversmith and a suspected highwayman. Bruce has Professor Nichols send him into the past to learn the truth about his ancestor. When Batman and Robin arrive in 1787, they stop a gang of highwaymen, but are suspected of the crime themselves. Ben Franklin speaks up for them and frees them. Then they prove that Silas was framed as the leader of the highwaymen. The real leader is Henry, a former Tory. Silas loves Henry’s sister Martha and agrees to take the blame as the highwayman to protect Martha’s mother. Ben Franklin gives Silas a letter which proves his innocence to be used after Martha’s mother dies. However, Silas dies first. Bruce finds the letter hidden inside Silas’s portrait, and after more than one hundred years Silas is finally cleared.»

Notas: Batman viaja al siglo 18 donde conoce a Benjamin Franklin y a su ancestro Silas Wayne. Otro Silas Wayne aparecerá en Batman v1 #120/2 (1958).

Batman v1 #45
The Lady Rogues
Fecha: 1948.03| Créditos: Bill Woolfolk (Guiones), Charles Paris (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Catwoman is angered when a best-selling book about female criminals contains no mention of her exploits. Actress Gala Kazon is hired to portray the famous villainesses on stage, so Catwoman sabotages the production. Batman and Robin try to stop Catwoman, going undercover on the set. Catwoman is captured and sent to prison, where she learns the book’s author intended to write a separate book devoted entirely to Catwoman.

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A Parole for Christmas
Fecha: 1948.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Charles Paris (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Convict Eddie Rogers is released from prison on a temporary pass, so that he can visit his family for Christmas. On the way home, thugs attack him. Batman fights them off, but Eddie is wounded in the attack. Eddie’s appearance is identical to Bruce Wayne, so Batman poses as Eddie, while the real convict recuperates. Batman visits Eddie’s family, but is soon arrested by the police who suspect Eddie of a hold-up. Robin vouches for Eddie, but the attackers return. Batman fights them off again, but this time ensures that he is sent back to prison. In Eddie’s cell, Batman learns of an escape plan by Scarface Malone. Scarface tried to have Eddie killed to prevent Eddie from telling the warden. Batman stops the attempted escape and clears Eddie’s name. Eddie’s temporary parole is made permanent, then he rejoins his family.»

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The Match
Fecha: 1948.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Charles Paris (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin join the Gotham City Fire Department to help uncover an arson ring. Batman learns that an accountant for several businessmen is tipping off the arsonist known as the Match. The Match then approaches the men and burns down their property for the insurance money. Batman locates the Match, but is quickly captured. Batman escapes, but the building is set on fire. He escapes with the Match as his prisoner. In stopping the fire, rookie fireman Tom Davis overcomes his own fear of fire to save a young boy.

Notas: Debut de the Match

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Guileful Greetings, or, The Joker Sends Regrets
Fecha: 1948.05| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Joker escapes jail and is welcomed back by the underworld. Joker decides to embark on a criminal campaign using greeting cards. He sends the cards to Batman with clues to his crimes. Batman then deciphers the clues and tries to stop the Clown Prince of Crime. At the first robbery, the Joker escapes after using sneezing powder to delay Batman. Next Batman and Robin go undercover as a bride and groom to prevent the Joker from stealing valuable jewels. Joker does escape capture, but at his next crime his luck runs out. Batman apprehends Joker again and returns him to prison.

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Big House Chaplain
Fecha: 1948.05| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman goes undercover to Gotham prison as Whitey Harlan to learn why the paroled convicts there don’t return to crime. Inside prison he meets Alan Channing, the prison chaplain. Channing has been helping prisoners turn their lives around. Batman also stops a prison break and learns the location of some stolen loot. When the mystery is solved, Batman puts the real Whitey in jail and recovers the loot for police

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The Batman That History Forgot
Fecha: 1948.05| Créditos: Don Cameron (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson travel back in time five centuries to investigate the rumor that a Batman existed in Milan. They soon meet Leonardo Da Vinci, who shows them his great works. Leonardo is at odds with Gian Trivulao, a cruel dictator. Batman helps Leonardo to publicly humiliate Gian. In the process Leonardo uses a flying machine of his own invention. Men who see him believe they see a «batman» who uses magic. With Leonardo safely away to Florence, Bruce and Dick return to their own time with an explanation for the «Batman» existing in Milan.

Notas: Batman viaja al siglo 16 donde conoce a Leonardo Da Vinci

Batman v1 #47
Fashions in Crime
Fecha: 1948.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B.Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Catwoman escapes from prison and starts a new fashion magazine. Then disguised as Madame Moderne, she sets up publicity engagements. During the displays of valuable merchandise, Catwoman is able to steal the goods. Batman and Robin are unable to stop her, until they realize that Moderne is the Catwoman. After making the discovery, Batman and Robin arrive at the next robbery in time to stop the Catwoman and return her to prison.l

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The Chain Gang Crimes
Fecha: 1948.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B.Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin visit another state to help Sheriff Tobey capture the Whiskers Mob. The gang disappears after a crime, but Batman traces them to a nearby prison camp. Batman infiltrates the prison disguised as a prisoner. Inside, he sees that the Whiskers Mob is working with Warden Beltt. Batman’s cover is blown, but he signals Robin. Together, they stop the mobsters and expose Beltt’s operation. The prison is then turned over to honest authorities.

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The Origin of Batman
Fecha: 1948.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Las mejores historias de Batman 1 (Zinco).

Batman and Robin discover that a trucking company is smuggling wanted criminals out of state. When Batman sees a picture of the trucking company’s owner, Joe Chill, he immediately recognizes the man as the killer of his parents. Batman works the case alone, trying to trap Chill and get evidence against him. Chill eludes Batman’s traps and continues to operate his company. Finally Batman takes a daring risk and reveals his identity to Chill, explaining that Chill was responsible for creating him. Batman threatens to follow and harass Chill until the crook eventually slips up. Frightened, Chill runs to his gang. He tells them that he was responsible for creating Batman. Before he can tell them who the Batman really is, they gun him done for creating their nemesis. Batman is then able to finally close the case of the Wayne murder.

Notas: Origen de Batman: se conoce que Joe Chill mató al padre de Bruce y Martha Wayne murió de ataque al corazón al verlo. Chill Muere. Se revela el nombre de Matha Wayne.

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The Fowls of Fate
Fecha: 1948.09| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Penguin laments that his plans are always ruined despite his use of birds. He decides to change his strategy and avoid birds. First he escapes jail, then begins a robbery spree. Batman and Robin find the Penguin at each robbery to stop him. Each time, a bird is inadvertently responsible for the Penguin’s failure. On the last crime, baby chicks swallow a fortune in diamonds. Penguin is forced to swipe the chicks, but their peeping noise allows Batman to find and capture the Penguin.

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The 1,000 Secrets of the Batcave
Fecha: 1948.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Escaped killer Wolf Brando runs from police. He takes refuge inside Wayne Manor. Once inside, he knocks out Dick Grayson and accidentally discover the Batcave entrance. Batman learns that Wolf is hiding in his home and follows him into the Batcave. Brando has Dick held hostage, but Batman rescues him. Together Batman and Robin then chase Brando through the Batcave. They know that once he is caught, Wolf will reveal their secret identities to the world. After a long chase, Brando is finally cornered. However, he accidentally falls into an underground stream and drowns

Notas: Por primera vez se narra que la Batcueva es una cueva natural y no simplemente una serie de estancias subterráneas.

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Crime from Tomorrow
Fecha: 1948.09| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A gang of crooks use futuristic weapons and vehicles for crime. Batman traces the vehicles to inventor James Lewes who claims that he loaned them to the «World of the Future» fair. At the fair, someone tries to kill Batman, but fails. The crooks capture Robin, but he leaves a trail for Batman to follow. Batman is finally able to stop the gang, then he follows the leader back to the fair. Batman finds the leader’s disguise, and correctly points out the fair secretary Morton, as the gang leader. «

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The Prison Doctor
Fecha: 1948.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Four criminals are apprehended and sent to prison following a bank robbery. The money is never found. The crooks begin serving life sentences and make several escape attempts. Each attempt is thwarted, so they kill one of their own men. The other three are then sentence to death for the murder.

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The Scoop of the Century
Fecha: 1948.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne meets magazine photographer Vicki Vale at his yacht club. A diminutive crook calling himself the Mad Hatter breaks into the club and robs the place. Batman tries to stop him. The Hatter escapes, while Batman is cut on the chin. Later Vicki Vale notices that Bruce Wayne has a cut in the same place as Batman. She compares photos and comes to the conclusion that Batman is Bruce Wayne. While Batman is hunting for the Mad Hatter, Vicki plants luminous powder inside Batman’s glove. After the crook is captured, Vicki sees Bruce with glowing hands. She thinks she has proof of Batman’s secret, but Batman had discovered the powder. He then used a luminous plant to fool Vicki, showing her that both his hands were glowing. Vicki suspects a trick and vows to follow-up on her suspicions.»

Notas: Debut de la fotógrafo Vicky ValeTierra-2 (tercera novia de Bruce Wayne) personaje inspirado en Lois Lane y Marilyn Monroe. La contrapartida deTierra-1 aparece en Batman v1 #98/3 (1956) y la versión post crisis en Batman v1 #408 (1987). Debut del Sombrerero Loco ITierra-2 (sin nombrar), villano inspirado en el personaje de “Alicia en el país de las Maravillas”. En Detective Comics v1 #230 (1956) aparece un segundo Sombrerero Loco llamado Jervis Tech y obsesionado con los sombreros. En Detective Comics v1 #510 (1982) aparece el Sombrerero LocoTierra-1 llamado Jervis Tech quien afirma que el personaje de 1956 es una “copia” y lo ha matado. La versión post crisis del personaje aparece en Detective Comics v1 #573 (1987).

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Batman’s Arabian Nights
Fecha: 1948.11| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne finds an arabian rug at auction with a picture resembling the Joker on it. He joins Dick Grayson on a trip into the past with Professor Nichols’s help to discover the story behind the rug. Bruce and Dick arrive in Bagdad which is being terrorized by a criminal called the Crier. The villain resembles the Joker, only he cries instead of laughs. Batman and Robin apprehend the criminal and prevent a mass panic when the Crier makes the residents believe a volcano is erupting. Finally, Batman discovers that a rug in the Crier’s possession has his picture on it. This rug is the one Bruce found at the auction.

Notas: Batman viaja a Bagdad del año 900

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Lights – Camera! – Crime
Fecha: 1948.12| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B.Kane/Lew Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Vicki Vale begins a series of magazine photo segments focusing on various law enforcement groups. When she decides to cover Batman’s exploits, she gets in contact with the Caped Crusader. Vicki joins Batman as he rescues a man from three thugs. The man, Tom Macon, explains that he was paid off by Stilts Tyler. Macon spent ten years in jail for Tyler after confessing to a crime he didn’t commit. In prison, Macon discovered he was going to die of a heart condition. Now that he has been released, Tyler wants to take his money back. Before Macon dies, he tells Batman where the money is located. Stilts captures Batman to learn the location of the money. Batman won’t talk, then he escapes. Tyler follows Batman to the hidden money. Batman then captures Tyler and his gang. Vicki captures the action on film for her magazine»

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The Return of Two-Face
Fecha: 1948.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B.Kane/Lew Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Harvey Dent begins having dreams that he has become Two-Face again. When Batman encounters does encounter Two-Face, he visits Dent who begins having a nervous breakdown. Dent flees the scene, leaving Batman to believe his old foe has returned to crime. After Batman battles Two-Face a second time, he discovers that the crook’s coin is damaged on both sides. Batman suspects the crook is not really Dent. His theory proves correct as he finds the real Dent held prisoner. Batman exposes Dent’s butler Wilkins as the real crook, who was trying to frame his boss.»

Notas: Harvey KentTierra-2 sale de prisión y se casa con Gilda. Su criado Wilkins se hace pasar por Dos-Caras

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The Second Boy Wonder
Fecha: 1948.12| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B.Kane/Lew Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batilibro tomo II Novarro.

Robin discovers that Batman has been secretly training another boy named Jimmy in the Bat-Cave. Robin believes that Batman is planning to replace him. He follows Batman and Jimmy as they battle a gang of crooks. Later, he tells Batman that he saw Jimmy. Batman has him deliver a Robin costume to Jimmy’s house where Robin learns that Jimmy is blind. Both Batman and Robin are captured by crooks, but Robin leaves a clue for Jimmy to find them. After Jimmy helps the Dynamic Duo escape and the crooks are captured, Batman explains that he was training Jimmy in criminology. He didn’t tell Robin because he planned to make it a final test for Jimmy. Batman never had any intention of replacing Robin.»

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Pee Wee, The Talking Penguin
Fecha: 1949.03| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B.Kane/Lew Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Penguin is paroled from prison and goes into show business. His partner is a talking penguin named Pee-Wee. When members of his old mob demand that he pay them the money he owes them, the Penguin returns to crime dressed as a giant penguin. The Penguin claims innocence when Batman and Robin question him. The Penguin then arranges for Pee-Wee to be kidnapped. Batman rescues the penguin, then learns that Pee-Wee’s talking is a hoax. He has the Penguin arrested and the fraud is proved in court. Penguin is then found guilty and sent back to prison.»

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The Stars of Yesterday
Fecha: 1949.03| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B.Kane/Lew Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Using a showboat for his base of operations, criminal Rufus Lane begins a string of warehouse robberies. Evidence leads Batman to the showboat where Lane has hired several has-been performers to provide his cover. Batman exposes Lane’s operation, but the gang escapes. Batman then conspires with the performers to capture Lane. Rolfe, an actor, disguises himself as Lane and announces a upcoming performance at a local theatre. The real Lane learns about the performance and proceeds to rob the box office. Batman and Robin were expecting Lane’s arrival and set a trap for the crook. Lane is captured, and the has-been actors begin a comeback.»

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The Wonderful Mr. Wimble
Fecha: 1949.03| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B.Kane/Lew Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Handyman Mr. Wimble daydreams about fighting crime alongside Batman and Robin. When Batman follows crooks to the wax museum where Wimble works, the handyman gets to see his heroes in action. The crooks escape from Batman, but Wimble finds a clue. Rather than go to the authorities, Wimble investigates himself. He tracks down the crooks, but they capture him. Wimble manages to contact Batman who comes to the rescue. The crooks are apprehended, and Wimble is saved. Batman reward Wimble for locating the crooks by getting him a job at a detective agency.»

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The Man with the Automatic Brain
Fecha: 1949.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B.Kane/Lew Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A criminal known as the Thinker uses a giant computer brain to deduce Batman’s secret identity. When Batman learns about the device, he arrange for Bruce Wayne’s apparent death at sea. However, police blame Alfred for murder and send him to prison. While in prison Alfred is contacted by the Thinker’s men. He joins them on a jail break after first alerting Batman. Alfred is brought to the Thinker’s hide-out where he sabotages the computer brain just as it is preparing to output Batman’s secret. Due to Alfred’s sabotage, instead of naming Bruce Wayne as Batman’s secret identity, it name’s Alfred himself. The gang then prepares to kill Alfred, but Batman arrives in time. The Thinker is caught, the computer brain is destroyed, and Alfred is rescued. After the Thinker is captured, Batman arranges for Bruce Wayne to be found alive.»

Notas: Debut de Thinker (sin relacion con el enemigo de Flash que debutó en All-Flash #12 (1943)

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Batman and the Vikings
Fecha: 1949.05| Créditos: B. Finger/E. Hamilton (Guiones), B.Kane/Lew Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A carving is found by archaeologists which dates back to the age of vikings. A viking warrior is depicted in the carving who looks identical to Bruce Wayne. Bruce decides to investigate the mystery and gets Professor Nichols to send him back in time. Bruce along with Dick Grayson arrives in the viking era. He is recognized by the people there and declared a coward. Dressed as Batman, Bruce learns that his look-a-like is named Olaf Erickson. Olaf was disgraced during battle and is now a prisoner. Batman rescues Olaf. He then faces several challenges posing as Olaf which help prove his courage. Olaf then leads an explanation to America where Batman’s scientific knowledge saves the vikings from an indian attack. Olaf redeems himself in the process. The vikings then honor him with the carving. «

Notas: Batman viaja a la época de los vikingos.

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The Happy Victims
Fecha: 1949.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B.Kane/Lew Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Joker begins a series of crimes in which his robbery victims refuse to press charges because they found his crime funny. Suspicious, Batman sets up Bruce Wayne as the next victim. As expected the Joker calls Wayne and tells him to laugh. In return Joker promises to return twice what he stole. Bruce complies which puzzles Dick Grayson. Dick becomes Robin and attempts to follow the Joker, but he is captured. Batman rescues him, then explains that the Joker was running a blackmail scheme on other thieves. He pretended that Bruce was an art thief, so that the Joker would target him. Once Batman and Robin escape the Joker’s death trap, they apprehend the crook

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A Hairpin, a Hoe, a Hacksaw, a Hole in the Ground
Fecha: 1949.07| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B.Kane/Lew Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Joker returns on a new crime spree in which he steals seemingly useless items such as a hairpin, a hoe, a hacksaw, and a hole in the ground. Batman deduces that the name of the items all begin with «ha-ha-ho-ho». Joker then leaves a clue giving Batman enough information to predict where the Joker will strike next. Batman finds the Joker on a golf course stealing the solid gold golf clubs of the Maharajah of Nimpah. Batman chases his foe into a warehouse filled with comedy props. The Joker captures Batman and gives him a choice of dooms. Batman escapes the death-trap using a water pistol. Then he apprehends the Joker.»

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The Portrait of Doom
Fecha: 1949.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B.Kane/Lew Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Artist Carl Marlin paints the portrait of Frank Fabian. Fabian then kills Marlin. Marlin’s wife accuses Fabian, but there is not enough evidence to arrest him. Fabian then takes the portrait home. Fabian then disguised as the Dapper Bandit begins adding robbery to his list of crimes. However, he is horrified to discover that for each evil act he commits the face on the portrait grows more grotesque. Fabian tries to sell the painting, then tries to destroy it. Batman discovers that Marlin’s wife has been altering the painting each day. He then has her restore the painting which she has saved from destruction. Batman then uses make-up on the unconscious Fabian to make him look like a monster. When he sees himself in the mirror, he believes he has been cursed and admits his crimes. Batman captures him then shows Fabian that he was tricked.»

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Batman Under the Sea
Fecha: 1949.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin follow Mr. Phaeton, a man in a wheelchair, when they see him in the company of gangster Stack Hawley. Robin suggests that Phaeton could really be a merman, but Batman dismisses the theory. Batman is the injured in the water, when the crooks fire on his boat. When Batman regains consciousness he discovers that he has been transformed into a merman himself by Theta, the chief scientist of the sea people. She explains that Phaeton is one of her people and is trying to steal their treasure. Batman battles Phaeton underwater, and Theta learns the secret to give mermen human legs. Before she dies at Phaeton’s hands, she changes Batman back into a man. Batman recovers from the accident and awakens in the hospital. Robin thinks Batman’s story was just a dream. Batman and Robin then defeat Phaeton, who is not a merman at all, but he is a jewel smuggler. After the adventure Batman still wonders if his experience as a merman was only a dream»

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The Treasure Hunter
Fecha: 1949.09| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Several members of the Hobby Horse club are robbed of their most priceless collectors’ items. Batman suspects that one of the club members is responsible. His suspicions lead him to Jim Gale who is missing his club pin which Batman found at a crime scene. However, the real crook took Gale’s pin to cover the loss of his own. Batman then decides to send a bat calling card to each club member. When C.C. Weede receives the bat, he tries to kill Batman. While he is not the Treasure Hunter, he did commit an old bank robbery and thought Batman had found him out. When no other members act strangely after receiving the bat, Batman deduces the identity of the Treasure Hunter. He sets a trap at Bruce Wayne’s mansion during a party celebrating his acquisition of a rare dime store novel. The real crook is Charles the club steward. Batman captures him and puts an end to the hobby thefts.

Notas: Debut de Prof. Post

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The Door Without a Key
Fecha: 1949.09| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

While vacationing in the Florida Everglades Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson discover a remote castle near the location where the Dan Morgan Gang disappeared a year earlier. Inside the castle they meet Paul Delion who allows them to stay the night. Inside the castle is a strange door, which Paul refuses to answer questions about. That night Bruce and Dick see Paul go through the door and his butler is shot. Batman and Robin go through the door to find Paul. On the other side they discover a vallery containing the Fountain of Youth. Dan Morgan is in the valley and captures the Dynamic Duo. Paul, who is also a prisoner, explains that his ancestors discovered the valley and are still living there. However, Morgan has chased them into the surrounding hills. Batman escapes the dungeon, but not before the crooks try to force Robin to drink from the Fountain. Once someone drinks the water they will die upon leaving the valley. Batman and Robin chase the crooks out of the valley. Robin does not die because he only pretended to drink the water. Dan and his gang do die because Paul’s ancestor Ponce De Leon tricked them into drinking the Fountain’s water.

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The Amazing Masquerade
Fecha: 1949.09| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

John Foster discovers that he looks identical to architect George C. Hudson. He kills Hudson and assumes the man’s life. Foster is able to fool Hudson’s butler, fiancee, and even his friend Bruce Wayne. Foster uses his new identity to build secret panels into the ceilings of buildings which allow his gang to enter and rob them. Bruce Wayne eventually realizes that Hudson is a phony when Foster pretends to have Hudson’s allergic reaction to roses. However, the roses were plastic replicas. Foster then tries to kill Bruce in a burning building. Bruce is able to escape through the secret panel in the roof. Batman then tricks Foster into exposing himself and arrests the crook.

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The Case of the 48 Jokers
Fecha: 1949.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Joker starts a clown college and begins training a team of Jokers to commit crimes around the country. His team of 48 Jokers all rob banks on the same night, but one of them is captured in New Jersey. Batman takes the place of the captured man and returns to the Joker’s college. However, his cover is blown causing him to be captured. Robin is also captured, so Batman must endure a series of humiliating pranks to save the life of his partner. Eventually Batman helps Robin escape. Then together the Dynamic Duo apprehend the Joker and his gang.

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Bruce Wayne, Rookie Policeman
Fecha: 1949.11| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Bob Kane (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Patrolman Mike Granite is shot and killed on the waterfront while attempting to capture the Longshoreman Kid. Before taking his final breath he gives his badge to Bruce Wayne. The badge is an honor that has been passed down from one cop to the next. Bruce decides to carry the badge of honor and joins the police force. Bruce soon proves himself as a rookie cop, but the police work is interferring with his career as Batman. He decides to team with Mike’s partner Jack Bennett to bring down the Longshoreman Kid after which he can quit the force. His plan fails and Bennett, Bruce, and Commissioner Gordon are all captured. However, Bruce helps them escape and is able to capture the crooks. He then passes the badge to Bennett and returns to fighting crime as Batman.

Notas: Bruce temporalmente trabaja como policia mientras Alfred se disfraza de Batman con el fin de apresar a un ladrón.

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The Bandit of the Bells
Fecha: 1949.11| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B. Kane/C. Paris (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Haunted by bells his entire life Ed Peale decides to turn to crime and make the bells help him. Calling himself the Gong, Peale soon stages several robberies which bring him to the attention of Batman. The Caped Crusader is unable to stop the Gong during their first meeting, but a clue leads him to the town of Hicksburg. In Hicksburg, the Gong tries to steal a giant bell loaded with gold. Batman interrupts the robbery and finds the stolen bell. The Gong tries to escape and is cornered in an alley. Batman uses the bell sounds in a nearby shooting gallery to drive the Gong into surrender.

Notas: Debut de the Gong.

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Ride, Bat-Hombre, Ride
Fecha: 1949.12| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman honors the request of President Camaran of Mantegua to visit his country and train a Bat-Hombre to fight the bandit gang of El Papagayo. Batman begins screening candidates, but he finds it difficult to locate a man with the physical and mental abilities needed to become Bat-Hombre. Finally Batman chooses Luis Peralda, the man best suited for the job. However, Peralda is a member of El Papagayo’s gang. As training begins, Batman realizes that the man is a crook. He has Peralda arrested, then takes his place as Bat-Hombre. Batman and Robin then find and defeat El Papagayo and his gang.

Notas: Debut de the Bat Hombre* (Luis Peralda)

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The Riddle of the Seven Birds
Fecha: 1949.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Penguin is released from prison after turning over evidence against killer Squeeze Miller. Miller is executed for his crimes, but he sets up a revenge plot against the Penguin. If the Penguin commits seven crimes using different birds, Miller has arranged for him to receive a quarter million dollars. Penguin then proceeds to return to crime. His robberies involve birds that begin with letters which spell out «Penguin». Batman discovers the pattern, but is captured when raiding the Penguin’s lair. Penguin finishes his last crime then is caught by Batman who has escaped. Penguin is sent back to prison and is disappointed when he learns that Miller’s reward turns out to be worthless.

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A Greater Detective than Batman
Fecha: 1949.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Criminal Specs Rose robs a safe, but is forced to abandon his loot when crime reporter Jack Starr quickly interprets a clue that was left behind. The insurance company is pleased with Starr and asks him to help after Rose’s next robbery instead of Batman. Batman continues his own pursuit of Specs, but he has to abandon the chase on multiple occasions to protect Vicki Vale. Meanwhile, Starr has helped find much of the stolen loot. Batman realizes that Specs is intentionally leaving most of the loot behind. He is keeping only particular items which he intends to use for a bigger robbery. Batman deduces Rose’s target, a train carrying a large currency shipment. Batman saves the train and apprehends Specs. Starr then admits that Batman is the better detective.

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The Trial of Bruce Wayne
Fecha: 1950.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne is forced to stand trial in a civil hearing which threatens to take away his custody of Dick Grayson. Several witnesses testify that Wayne is irresponsible and act to frame him. While the court is in recess, Batman tracks down Ed Kolum, a press agent which a grudge against Bruce. He then brings Kolum into court and tricks him into admitting that he bribed the witnesses. Bruce retains custody of Dick while Kolum and the lying witnesses are held by the court.

Notas: Bruce a punto de perder la custodia de Dick por su “estilo de vida disipado

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The Walking Mummy
Fecha: 1950.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Professor Brink returns from Egypt after uncovering the tomb of Kiron, an ancient bandit. When the examination of Kiron’s mummified body begins, the mummy rises to life. It escapes the museum and begins a series of Egyptian-based crimes. Batman and Robin eventually capture the mummy and unmask the crook. The mummy is really Brink’s assistant Andrews, who used the mummy disguise to frighten his victims and conceal his true identity.

Notas: Debut de Andrews* (encargado del museo de Gotham y criminal)

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The Funny Man Crimes
Fecha: 1950.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When the other convicts in prison claim that several popular comedians are funnier than the Joker, the Clown Prince escapes from jail. He then sets out to upstage the other comics and prove that he is the world’s greatest comedian. Batman disguises himself as Harley Hapless at a comedy show and waits for the Joker to arrive. When the clown makes an appearance Batman goes after him. The Joker throws a trophy at Batman, but it is deflected and knocks him out. The Joker is then sent back to jail after his defeat by the comedy trophy he had hoped to win.

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The State Bird Crimes
Fecha: 1950.05| Créditos: Bill Woolfolk (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Penguin is paroled from prison and tries to enter the penguin as a state bird in a Birdlovers’ Society. When the members mock him, the Penguin vows to get revenge. He begins robbing the members of the club using crimes based on the state birds from each member’s home state. Batman and Robin try to stop the Penguin, but he gets away several times. The heroes split up to guard different club members. Robin is captured when the Penguin steals from Morley Kells. When he is later confronted by Batman at an organ manufacturing plant, the Penguin uses the Boy Wonder as a hostage. Batman is able to stop the crook anyway with the aid of a giant organ.

Notas: Debut de Black Diamond

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The Brand of a Hero
Fecha: 1950.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are sent back in time to 1854 by Professor Nichols in order to discover what happened to the lost treasure of Rex Spears, the ancestor of Bruce’s friend. They discover that Spears and young orphan Lorenzo Bagg are transporting the money by stagecoach. Bandits attack the coach forcing Spears to retreat into a canyon. The former prospector is fatally bitten by a rattlesnake. Before dying he buried the treasure in the canyon. Batman and Robin then see an avalanche which covers the area. When Bruce and Dick return to their own time, they are able to remember the location of the treasure. They then aid the ancestors of Spears and Bagg to uncover the money and the will of Rex Spears.

Notas: Batman y Robin viajan en el tiempo a la California de 1954 en plena fiebre del oro

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The Black Diamond
Fecha: 1950.05| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A criminal known as the Black Diamond arranges for four criminal specialists to be broken out of jail. He then orders them to kill Batman. After murder attempts by Nitro Nelson and the Barracuda Brothers fail, Bull’s-Eye Kendall takes his shot at Batman with a sniper rifle. However, Batman is able to avoid the sniper, then disguises himself as Kendall. He returns to the Black Diamond’s hide-out and apprehends the crook.

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The Man Who Replaced Batman
Fecha: 1950.07| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman’s role as Gotham’s principal guardian is temporarily usurped by a costumed crimefighter called Deadshot, who fights crime with incredibly accurate feats of marksmanship. Batman eventually proves that Deadshot, whose real name is Floyd Lawton, secretly plans to become a Gotham City gang leader

Notas: Debut de DeadshotTierra-2 (Floyd Lawton). La versión deTierra-1 debutará en Detective Comics v1 #474 (1977). El origen de Deadshot post crisis se narrará en Deadshot #1-4 (1988).

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The Forbidden Cellar
Fecha: 1950.07| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

An eccentric millionaire leaves his estate to a local college. However, a legend surrounds the cellar which is said to contain evil. A reporter enters the cellar to disprove the legend only to be turned into a raving lunatic. The cellar quickly claims a second victim when a student goes inside.Professor Vincent still believes the legend is nonsense. He enters the cellar and emerges a madman. While in a deranged state Vincent kills Dean Hedge. When the effect of the cellar wears off Vincent is not held accountable for his insane actions. Batman enters the cellar next. He too comes out in a rage. However, Batman is faking. He is able to prove that Vincent staged the entire scenario to get away with murder. Hedge had discovered that Vincent was stealing from the college, so the professor killed him. The insanity was being caused by mushroom fumes planted by Vincent in the cellar. He and Batman both wore nose filters to protect themselves.

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Batman in the Future
Fecha: 1950.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin are sent into the future by Professor Nichols. They accidentally prevent the apprehension of a space pirate named Zarro because the chief of police looks like the Joker. The chief is Rokej, the Joker’s ancestor. To make up for the mistake, Batman offers to help stop the space pirates that have been looting space ships. Batman takes a job at the Milman space ship factory where he suspects the pirates are being tipped off. With Batman’s help Zarro is apprehended. A saboteur damages Milman’s best ship, so Batman enters a specially constructed Bat-ship in a race around the solar system. The saboteur strikes again, but Batman wins the race anyway. Batman then fingers Engineer Erkham and the saboteur who was working for a rival company.

Notas: Batman viaja 100 años en el futuro donde se encuentra a Rekoj un descendiente del Joker que se ha convertido en el jefe de policía de Gotham.

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Crime Through the Ages
Fecha: 1950.09| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne proposes a new museum skyrise with each floor dedicated to an era in Earth’s history. The project is approved, but two men oppose it. Lyons is a museum director who thinks the new museum will be a failure. Pendray is a business owner displaced by the new construction. Accidents plague the construction of the museum. Pendray falls under suspicion when they problems appear to be deliberate. Batman and Robin begin guarding the museum until it is finished. When the museum opens Batman and Robin notice criminal activity has increased. Batman deduces that the crooks are using the museum as a base. He and Robin hide in the museum and eventually discover that the crooks are using secret passages in the walls. Batman catches the crooks and exposes construction foreman Smithers as the ringleader.

Notas: Debut de la Bat señal*

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The Counterfeit Batman
Fecha: 1950.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When Bruce Wayne is forced to wear a Batman costume at a masquerade party many guests recognize a resemblance to the real Batman. Shark Marlin sees Bruce’s photo in the newspaper and decides to use him as a phony Batman against his rival Duke Kelmer. To ensure that Bruce cooperates he holds Dick Grayson hostage. Bruce must then pretend to be Batman, while the two gangs try to commit crimes. He must stop both gangs, but he can’t appear to be too skilled or Shark will realize that he is the real Batman. After foiling two such crimes, Shark begins to have suspicions. On the third attempted heist, Shark marks Bruce’s face in order to distinguish him as the phony Batman. Fortunately, Robin has escaped from the rest of the gang and assists Batman. The crooks are captured, but Shark believes he now knows that Batman is Bruce Wayne. Batman then reveals a rubber Bruce Wayne mask which he uses to fool Shark into thinking he switched places with Bruce.

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The Auto Circus Mystery
Fecha: 1950.09| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

An auto circus comes to Gotham City. Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson attend and witness stunt driver Lucky Hooton injured in a crash. Batman offers to replace Hooton in the show while the driver recuperates. Batman disguises himself as Hooton and returns to the circus. He is then threatened by criminal Iron-Jaw Briggs. Batman realizes that Hooton’s crash was not an accident. He tracks down Briggs and ties him to a stolen car gang operating inside the circus. The crooks try to kill him twice. Batman avoids death, then uses the Batmobile to hunt down the escaping gang.

Batman v1 #61
The Birth of Batplane II
Fecha: 1950.11| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Las mejores historias de Batman 1 (Zinco).

After the criminal Boley Brothers steal the Batplane and carry out a series of daring aerial hijacks with the stolen plane and two hastily constructed duplicates, Batman and Robin build an advanced new aircraft, a sleek, swept-wing fighter dubbed Batplane II.

Notas: Batman construye el segundo Batplano

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The Mystery of the Winged People
Fecha: 1950.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Penguin escapes from jail and embarks on a series of crimes based on winged people. He sends Batman a clue in the form of small figurines. The first crime involves Cinderella’s winged fairy godmother, next a winged statue of cupid, and the third crime involves a flying man sideshow attraction. Batman fails to stop each crime. The last clue is a man with no face. The Penguin captures Robin and forces Batman to unmask. The Penguin sees that Batman is Bruce Wayne, but Batman uses makeup to fool the Penguin into thinking he isn’t Bruce. Batman then apprehends the Penguin and rescues Robin.

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The Wheelchair Crimefighter
Fecha: 1950.11| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

While chasing a gang of crooks, Batman’s rope is cut causing him to fall. Robin carries his injured partner to a nearby doctor who tells Batman that both of his legs are broken. The legs are put into casts, and Batman is side-lined for three months. When news of the injury reaches Vicki Vale, she contacts Bruce Wayne for a date. If he can’t walk, she will expose his secret identity. Meanwhile, crooks try to take advantage of Batman’s condition. Batman constructs an electric wheelchair and continues to battle crime including the gang of Babyface Fulop, who are stealing money to pay off a photographer who took pictures of Fulop’s newly reconstructed face. After several unsuccessful attempts to catch the gang, Robin proves to Batman that his legs were never broken. Robin remembered a previous injury that did not show up on Batman’s x-rays. The doctor falsified the injuries because he was the plastic surgeon blackmailing Babyface. Batman and Robin trap the doctor and Babyface’s gang. Later, Vicki meets Bruce for their date and discovers that he can walk.

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Batman v1 #62
The Secret Life of Catwoman
Fecha: 1950.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Las mejores historias de Batman 2 (Zinco).

After being struck on the head with a brick while saving Batman from another criminal, the Catwoman reveals to Batman that her real name is Selina Kyle. She tells him that she had been suffering amnesia since a plane crash ten years earlier, and claims that her entire career as Catwoman was a product of that loss of memory. After helping Batman and Robin to apprehend the villainous Mister X, she turns her Catwoman costume over to Commissioner Gordon and departs to start a new life on the right side of the law

Notas: CatwomanTierra-2 se reforma. Origen de Catwoman: se revela que nombre es Selina Kyle y que era villana fruto de la amnesia tras una accidente de tráfico, en Brave & Bold #197 (1983) se cambia revelando que era villana debido al maltrato sufrido por su marido. Selina abandona su carrera criminal.

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The Batman of England
Fecha: 1950.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin meet the Knight and the Squire, secretly the Earl of Wordenshire and his young son Cyril, a pair of armor-clad English heroes who have modeled themselves on Batman and Robin.

Notas: Debut de KnightTierra-2 (Percival Sheldrake) and SquireTierra-2 (Cyril Sheldrake). La versiónTierra-1 aparecerá en World Finest # 89 (07.1957) y la versión post crisis en Young All-Stars #22 (01.1989). En JLA #26 (02.1989) Cyril asumirá el rol de Knight II y debutará Squire II (Beryl Hutchinson).

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The Mystery of Millionaire Island
Fecha: 1950.12| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne and several other millionaires are summoned to an special event in an undisclosed island. Upon arriving, it is revealed that they have all been brought to a trap and the only way out of the island is to reveal their most important secret of their financial success. When some of the millionaires refuse to give away their secrets, they are killed and their bodies taken away. Desperate for help, the wealthy men craft a make-shift Bat-Signal, which allows Bruce to change into Batman and start investigating the case. Robin arrives soon after watching the Bat-Signal and together they uncover the responsible behind the millionaire island. The criminal was one of the wealthy men, the first one to apparently die. He had prepared the place to convince the others that he was killing them, when in reality, he was just knocking them unconscious and taking them to a cellar.

Notas: Batman construye el segundo Batplano. Por primera vez Catwoman en llamada Selina Kyle.

Batman v1 #63
The Joker’s Crime Costumes
Fecha: 1951.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Mejores Historias del Joker 1 (Zinco).

During a charity exhibition about Batman in Gotham City, the Joker becomes aware that a very important part of Batman’s crimefighting career is his arsenal of Batsuits, which allows him to conquer every kind of situation. Thus, the Joker decides to start a new crime spree with different costumes. As usual, the first crimes are successful until his scheme is discovered and he is ultimately captured by Batman and Robin.

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The Case of the Flying Saucers
Fecha: 1951.03| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When the death of a mysterious person reaches the Gotham City Police Department, Commissioner Gordon calls the Dynamic Duo and soon they start investigating the case. All the clues indicate that the deceased person is an alien from Saturn and Batman soon locates the secret headquarters where Saturnian spaceships are hidden. Using his deductive skills, Batman finds the truth behind the crazy plot and manages to capture a large gang of thugs, who pretended to be aliens in order to extort money from the government.

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The Origin of Killer Moth
Fecha: 1951.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

While in prison, one of the inmates collects every piece of information and memorabilia about Batman’s greatest feats. Upon his release, the inmate adopts the identity of Cameron van Cleer and becomes a wealthy socialite in Gotham City. Cleer buys a mansion and starts constructing a cave underneath the house. All this with the sole purpose of recreating Batman’s arsenal and base of operations. Finally, Cleer is ready for action and he becomes the criminal aid known as Killer Moth. Using his new moniker, Moth contacts the underworld and informs them that he is going to operate exactly like Batman, only he would help crooks instead of capturing them. Soon, both Batman and Killer Moth are summoned to action and they confront in a duel of wits and equipment. Killer Moth uses his own Mothmobile to knock Batman and Robin unconscious and take them to the Moth-Cave, where he forces Batman to take him the real Batcave or else he would kill Robin. Batman and Moth are on their way to the Batcave and in the meantime, Robin manages to break free and goes to the GCPD Headquarters, where he uses a radio to contact Batman and prevents him from showing Moth the Batcave. Learning that his plan has failed, Moth tries to escape by climbing over a bridge, but Batman follows him closely. They struggle for a few moments until Killer Moth falls to the river below. The police and Batman try to find Killer Moth’s body, but it seems as it has vanished away.

Notas: Debut de Polilla AsesinaTierra-2. La contrapartida deTierra-1 aparecerá en Justice League of America #35 (1965) como un duplicado mágico y en Detective Comics v1 #355 (1967) como un ser real.

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The Candid Camera Killer
Fecha: 1951.05| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin cross paths with an eccentric millionaire, who is obsessed with collecting crime pictures of crimes and criminals. The man’s obsesssion causes him to be involved with all sorts of crooks and after he has acquired some of the most iconic crime photographs, he is determined to get a picture of the deaths of Batman and Robin. So begins the quest of a madman to kill the Dynamic Duo, but fortunately he ends up captured and arrested.

Notas: Se menciona a la hermana Anne de Vicky Vale pero no aparece.

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The Forgotten Men of Crime
Fecha: 1951.05| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When an elder criminal is released from prison, he tries to make a comeback in the underworld of Gotham City. However, the new gangs and criminals are too young and they consider the old man as useless for their plans. The old timer decides to gather his old gang back and show the young crooks that the age doesn’t have any implications on their performance. When the gang of elder criminals starts gaining profit and attention from the media, the young gangsters try to emulate them, but they are reckless and end up captured by Batman and Robin. The Police starts working to capture the gang of elder crooks, but they manage to avoid capture at every opportunity. However, they meet their own doom when they decide to steal from Bruce Wayne using the caverns below Wayne Manor. While they try to enter through the Batcave, they are finally captured by Batman and Robin.

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The Return of Killer Moth
Fecha: 1951.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Killer Moth makes a comeback after his last encounter with Batman, in which he was defeated. After this failure, Killer Moth has become the laughing stock of Gotham’s underground and the criminals he was supposed to help, don’t want his assistance anymore. To gain back some credibility, Killer Moth decides to steal a valuable moth object from the Gotham Museum, using his connections as Cameron van Cleer. Killer Moth’s plan is almost succesful, except for the fact that Bruce Wayne is also part of the Museum’s directors and he is present at the place when Killer Moth strikes. A fight begins among the two of them, but Killer Moth manages to escape and Batman is forced to change back into Bruce Wayne. The sudden disappearance of Bruce and Clarence make them suspicious of each other and both of them deduce their secret identity. Knowing that Moth would strike at the museum again, Batman and Robin await for him and soon, the criminal shows up. After a quick fight and a chase, the Dynamic Duo are able to stop Killer Moth and once he is captured, Batman removes his mask, learning his true identity and ending the second criminal spree of Killer Moth.

Batman v1 #65
A Partner for Batman
Fecha: 1951.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman : Los Archivos Negros (Planeta DeAgostini).

After Robin gets injured chasing the Dexter gang, Batman finds a temporary replacement in Wingman; who is under training to become Europe’s Batman. Robin believes that the replacement would be permanent, but after the confusion is cleared, he realizes that he wasn’t going to be replaced and he is soon back in action along with Batman.

Notas: Debut de Wingman.

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Bruce Wayne – Crime Reporter
Fecha: 1951.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The editor of the Gotham Gazette has been waging war against an unknown criminal known as «The Artisan», but he has never been able to expose him. However, his contribution to the Gotham City Police Department is known across the entire city and when he decides to recruit Bruce Wayne as part of his staff or reporters, Bruce gladly agrees with the hope of finally bring The Artisan to justice. After long hours of investigation, Batman finds that The Artisan is unknown even to his own henchmen, but despite this lack of clues, Batman manages to uncover the true identity of the criminal as the renowned editor of the Gotham Gazette. Once the criminal is captured, Bruce Wayne becomes the new star reporter for his article about the capture of The Artisan.

Notas: De but de los Artisans* (banda)

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Catwoman – Empress of the Underworld
Fecha: 1951.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When a new series of cat-related crimes start taking place in Gotham, everybody suspects that Catwoman has returned to her evil ways. However, Selina Kyle is now the owner of a pet store and she is innocent of all charges. Batman and Robin investigate the crimes and find some evidence that is later reported on the newspapers. Selina is shocked to read the news as some of the evidence seems to point towards her as responsible for the crimes. After this, a gang leader called Whale Morton approaches Selina and offers her an alliance to make her the most successful criminal in town and Selina joins him, taking up again the mantle of Catwoman again. Catwoman leads Morton’s gang on a successful crime spree, but coincidentally, there is always a Cat-Signal coming from the crime scenes during the robberies. The Dynamic Duo follow this beacon and always manage to capture some of the lesser thugs, but never the leaders. During one of these attempts, Batman and Robin are finally captured by Morton and Catwoman, who place them in a deadly trap. When Batman manages to break free from the trap, he turns off the lights and captures almost the entire gang with help from Catwoman. At that very moment, the police arrive as they have been watching the whole scene on TV and it is then revealed that Catwoman had prepared a live broadcast of the events to tip off the police in case anything went wrong. The criminals are finally arrested and Catwoman informs the Dynamic Duo that she was working as an undercover agent to capture the thugs the whole time.

Notas: Catwoman retirada abre una tienda de mascotas

Batman v1 #66
The Joker’s Comedy of Errors
Fecha: 1951.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

After a failed crime, The Joker becomes obsessed with recreating some of history’s most famous blunders and tries to force Batman into making mistakes while catching him. His plan almost succeeds, but the Dynamic Duo finds a way to stop and capture the Clown Prince of Crime.

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The Movie Star Who Died Twice
Fecha: 1951.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When film stars start dying in the same way as their respective characters died in the movies, Batman and Robin investigate the case and discover that the actors are not actually dead, but instead they’ve been kidnapped by an elder filmmaker who is forcing them to perform in his latest film. Batman and Robin find the location where the old man is keeping the actors and they rescue them by using some of the filmmaker’s old films. When the nearest dam breaks down, water starts submerging the entire place and the old maniac dies as a result.

Notas: Debut de Griffin Balfon* (director de cine)
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Batman II and Robin, Junior
Fecha: 1951.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

During a mission capturing crooks, Robin becomes too reckless and disobeys Batman’s command. The kid has to be saved by the Dark Knight and once they’re back in the Batcave, Bruce scolds Robin for disobeying him. Later that night, Dick Grayson dreams of a future time in which Bruce is too old to remain active as Batman and he has to take up the mantle, working with his only son as his partner, Robin Jr. In the dream, Dick Grayson is Batman II and he teaches his son the importance of following orders and teamwork. However, during one mission, Robin Jr. disobeys his dad’s command and Batman II is forced to rescue the young man. Despite his best efforts, Dick is unable to rescue Robin Jr. and his harsh actions have doomed them both to a certain death. Dick Grayson then wakes up and Bruce gives him the task of mowing the lawn as a punishment for last night’s blunder. Dick has learned his lesson and he finishes his job just as Bruce told him.

Batman v1 #67
The Mystery Rope
Fecha: 1951.11| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A criminal known for being superstitious about the number seven escapes from prison. At the same time, the Gotham Historical Society asks Batman to donate one of his most interesting Batropes. As Batman goes off to find the perfect rope, Commissioner Gordon, Robin and Alfred are left wondering which rope would Batman choose and each of them make a guess. Gordon expects Batman to bring the disintegrating batrope, Robin thinks he would bring the hollow batrope and Alfred guesses that Batman would bring the golden batrope. In the end, Batman brings some copper wire to the place and everyone is disappointed. However, that night the recently escaped criminal tries to steal from the Historical Society building and he is easily captured by Batman, because he had electrified the ordinary wires, turning them into a strong electromagnet which prevented the thug from escaping.

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The Man Who Wrote the Joker’s Jokes
Fecha: 1951.11| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

After a long time of inactivity, the Joker decides to hire gag writers who could come up with crime ideas that would also make fools of Batman and Robin. After two failed attempts, Joker kidnaps Robin and forces Batman to write a plan for him. Batman complies, but Robin doesn’t remain a prisoner for long, which allows Batman to stop the Joker during his own scripted crime.

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The Lost Legion of Space
Fecha: 1951.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

While Robin is investigating in the Batcave, a time travel sphere appears and the Batman from the year 3051 comes out. He asks Robin’s assistance in a case and Robin gladly agrees. Once in the future, the 3051 Batman and the original Robin infiltrate a prison in order to sabotage the master plan of the criminal known as Yerxa. In the process, Yerxa learns the real identity of the future Batman and in order to keep the secret, Robin goes back in time to bring the original Batman to the future and eliminate any suspicion. When the case is over, everybody returns to their respective time streams.

Notas: Debut del Batman año 3051 (Brane Taylor), cuando su joven compañero queda herido, Brane viaja al pasado para recultar a Robin. Brane volverá a aparecer en Detective Comics v1 #216 (1955).

Batman v1 #68
The New Crimes of Two-Face
Fecha: 1951.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 1036 Novaro.

Television actor Paul Sloane is hideously scarred during a recreation of the life of the original Two-Face, becoming convinced that he is Two-Face. BF/LS/CP Despite a televised plea by Harvey Kent, Sloane carries out a series of crimes before being captured by Batman and Robin

Notas: Debut de Dos-Caras II (Paul Sloane) un actor de TV.

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The Secret Life of Batman’s Butler
Fecha: 1951.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A group of criminals accidentally discovers the network of caves beneath Wayne Manor, but Batman and Robin manage to convince the crooks that the caves are simply being used in the filming of a Batman movie and are not the real Batcave

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The Atom Cave Raiders
Fecha: 1951.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A gang of criminals run by Longhorn Bells starts working on their new racket: atom caves robberies. For this purpose, the thugs get a professional geologist who could guide them to the caves in Gotham City. The Gotham City Police Department works together with Batman and they manage to foil some of the robberies, but the thugs always manage to escape. On their criminal spree, the thugs decide to steal from the cave located underneath Wayne Manor, which they assume is the famous Batcave. When Batman realizes that his secret sanctuary might be in danger, he prepares a set up in case the criminals break inside. In this way, the thugs are fooled into believing that the Batcave is a wine cellar. After this, the Dynamic Duo manage to capture the criminals by forcing them out of their hideout.

Batman v1 #69
The Batman Expose’
Fecha: 1952.03| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 920 Novaro.

An unscrupulous screenwriter pens a screenplay for The Batman Story, a movie purporting to be the true story of Batman, then tries to sabotage the production to regain the rights. The script sugests that Batman is actually a derelict, and the Batcave hidden in a water tower on a rooftop in Gotham City.

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The Buttons of Doom
Fecha: 1952.03| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A strange criminal dubbed the «Blaze» hits the streets of Gotham City and his methods are perplexing to all the authorities. The man wears a special insulated body-suit and attacks his victims to take away buttons from their clothes before he burns them to death using a flamethrower. Batman and Robin get on the track of the criminal and prevent some deaths, but some other people are killed by the maniac. After a long investigation, Batman finds out that the Blaze is acting on a personal vendetta against a specific group of people who were part of a firefighter volunteer team. As part of said team, Batman is the last victim of the Blaze, but during their encounter, the criminal jumps into a cave full of dynamite with the flamethrower active, killing himself in a gigantic explosion.

Notas: Debut de Blaze II, not the villain from DETECTIVE COMICS #95.

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The King of Cats
Fecha: 1952.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 912 Novaro.

Karl Kyle, hermano de Selina Kyle, alias Catwoman. Esta versión del personaje también era un ladrón que robaba motivado por una intensa rivalidad con su hermana. Sus crímenes atormetaban a Catwoman, ya que ella tiene lealtad tanto con ssu hermano y su némesis, Batman, del cual estaba enamorado. Finalmente se retiro, al igual que su hermana, de la vida criminal por lo que se reformo. (Selina Kyle’s brother Karl turns to crime as the King of the Cats, leading Selina to once again become Catwoman to help Batman and Robin bring her brother to justice)

Notas: Debut del Rey de los Gatos (Karl Kyle)Tierra-2. Su versión post crisis aparecerá en Seven Soldiers: Bulleteer #3 (04.2006). CatwomanTierra-2 retoma su rol para ayudar a Batman entregando a su hermano.

Batman v1 #70
The Robot Cop of Gotham City
Fecha: 1952.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 916 Novaro.

A scientist has created a robot capable of performing amazing athletic feats and he gives the machine to the Gotham City Police Department. The robot is an amazing crime fighter and soon it is promoted to work together with Batman. The robot is contunually proves his benefit over Batman. Commissioner Gordon soon considers appointing the robot as Gotham’s primary crime-fighter and putting Batman in a desk job. However, Gordon changes his mind after Batman captures a criminal that the robot couldn’t due to a technical fault in his construction, and the robot is decommissioned.

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The Masterminds of Crime
Fecha: 1952.05| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Curt Swan (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman disguises himself as the crook Drexel to infiltrate the Crime Academy.

Notas: Debut de la Crime Academy*

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The Parasols of Plunder
Fecha: 1952.05| Créditos: Bill Woolfolk (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Penguin is released from prison on parole, providing he gives up anything having to do with birds. So he takes up an umbrella business….with the same criminal results!

Batman v1 #71
The Jail for Heroes
Fecha: 1952.07| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne pretends to be a crime lord in order to apprehend the villainous Kingpin, who is unmasked as Wayne’s friend Spotswood Hartley. Meanwhile, Batman narrates the radio series “Underworld, Incorporated” for Gotham radio station WPO, broadcasting live from the Batcave

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Commissioner Gordon’s Greatest Case
Fecha: 1952.07| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Commissioner Gordon makes a concerted but unsuccessful attempt to discover Batman’s secret identity. He abandons his efforts after a criminal, assuming that Gordon knows the secret, threatens to murder Gordon’s family unless he reveals Batman’s true identity

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The Mask of Mr. Cipher
Fecha: 1952.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Gotham City Police Department and Batman learn that there is some underground criminal operation that allows thugs to change their facial structure in order to avoid capture. Commissioner Gordon and Batman come up with an idea to send undercover agents to the criminal underworld to learn the identity of the master criminal behind this elaborate operation. Batman is able to recognize the undercover officers by a token coin that they all carry on their pockets. Soon, the identity of the master criminal behind it all is known as Mister Cipher, a mysterious masked man. When Cipher learns about the undercover agents on his racket, he starts searching among his men and Batman has to intervene to prevent Cipher from harming the undercover officers. Batman is captured as he searches for the Cipher’s lair and Cipher contacts Robin using Batman’s Utility Belt. Before Cipher can spring a trap for Robin, Batman manages to break free. Soon Robin arrives, and the Dynamic Duo are able to capture all the criminals except The Cipher. The police arrive at the criminals’ base of operation and Cipher pulls out a gun, but he is shot before he can fire. In The Cipher’s dying moments, Batman removes The Cipher’s mask and learns that he has undergone so many surgeries that his facial features are no longer identifiable. The Cipher dies and his true identity remains a mystery.

Notas: Debut de the Masked Mystic y de Kingpin el cual resulta ser una amigo de Bruce

Batman v1 #72
The Jungle Batman
Fecha: 1952.09| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman Especial 1 Novaro.

After capturing the feared Sinister Eight, Commissioner Gordon asks Batman and Robin to deliver the crooks by radio-controlled ship to their prison at Satan’s Island. The ship is torpedoed and sunk during a storm at sea by the Sinister Eight’s minions, and all are washed ashore on an island, where Batman and Robin have to avoid capture by the villains before they can capture them. Using every trick available to them in the environment of the abandoned island, Batman and Robin capture the criminals and hold them prisoner until they’re rescued and taken back to Gotham City.

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The Legion of Faceless Men
Fecha: 1952.09| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 932 Novaro.

Batman and Robin are invited to a party at The Maskers Club, which is formed by people who wear masks as part of their jobs. After the party, several crimes take place and the criminal in all of them is wearing one of the masks and uniforms worn by the people at the party. After an extensive investigation and an even longer chase, Batman and Robin finally capture the criminal responsible for the crimes: the Maskers Club’s doorman.

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The Death Cheaters of Gotham City
Fecha: 1952.09| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 928 Novaro.

On Gotham City, there is a strange «Death Cheaters Club,» and a wanted criminal, who fits the qualifications for membership, is denied the same and vows vengeance against all the members. As some of the members start dying, the prime suspect is the criminal, but after Batman starts investigating the mystery, the real killer is found and it is revealed as one of the prime members of the club.

Batman v1 #73
Guns for Hire
Fecha: 1952.11| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The criminals of Gotham City have developed a new modus operandi in which they commit crimes with rented firearms that they return after their crimes. For this reason, the Gotham City Police Department have not been able to find evidence or establish a connection between captured criminals and their crimes. Batman and Robin start investigating the case without success and Bruce decides to disguise himself as a criminal to learn the secrets behind the new criminal methods. Batman is taken to the base of operations of the Renter, who is the man behind the rented weapons business. After doing an extensive investigation, Batman is discovered and some of the criminals try to kill him. However, Batman manages to defeat them and brings the whole organization down.

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Vicki Vale’s Secret
Fecha: 1952.11| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Vicki Vale pretends that her life is in mortal danger as part of an elaborate plot to prove her suspicions that Bruce Wayne is secretly Batman. Batman manages to thwart her efforts after he notices the microphone (intended to record potentially incriminating remarks between Batman and Robin) hidden in her apartment.

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The Joker’s Utility Belt
Fecha: 1952.11| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Mejores Historias del Joker 1 (Zinco).

The Joker tries to steal a valuable gem collection from the Gotham City Museum, but his crime is thwarted by Batman and the always useful set of tools from his Utility Belt. Out of frustration, Joker decides to create his own utility belt to get an advantage over Batman. Using a series of spectacular trick gadgets and prankster tools, Joker commits a series of successful crimes that leave Batman and Robin baffled. During one of their confrontations, Joker manages to capture the Dynamic Duo and place them on a deadly trap, but Batman is able to break free using the Joker’s utility belt. Finally, the clown prince of crime is captured and taken to the GCPD Headquarters, where he reveals his new hatred towards any sort of belts.

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The Crazy Crime Clown
Fecha: 1952.12| Créditos: Alvin Schwartz (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Mejores Historias del Joker 1 (Zinco), La Familia Superman nº5 (Editorial Valenciana) .

The Joker starts a series of crimes, but all the objects he steals have no value. When the police capture the criminal, he is taken to court, where a psychiatrist diagnoses him with hebophrenic schizophrenia and he is sentenced to an insane asylum. Batman and Robin’s investigation reveals that Joker must have pretended to be insane in order to reach a man inside the asylum who recently embezzled a fortune, but would not share its location with police. With help from Commissioner Gordon, Batman infiltrates the asylum as an inmate and soon he confronts the Joker. The Clown Prince of Crime is able to outmatch the Caped Crusader and locks him in one of the padded cells. However, Batman uses one of the inmates to fool the Joker into believing that there are two Batmen. With his perception of reality distorted, Joker doesn’t know what to believe anymore and he is defeated by Batman and Robin. After his defeat, Joker was left temporarily insane, but in order to leave the asylum, he proved that his sanity by revealing the location of the embezzled fortune that was at the root of his plan.

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The Movie that Killed Batman
Fecha: 1952.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: La Familia Superman nº8 (Editorial Valenciana).

Batman and Robin are involved in the making of a movie in which they recreate the case against a notorious criminal called Skid Turkel. Much to their surprise, their own trusted butler, Alfred has been cast as the main antagonist for his uncanny resemblance to Turkel. Meanwhile, Turkel learns of the movie and he escapes prison with the sole purpose of getting revenge on Batman. Turkel attacks Alfred first and leaves him tied up in Wayne Manor before going to the film set, where they are supposed to film the last scene in which Turkel is captured by the Dynamic Duo. When they recreate the scene, Turkel uses a real machine gun and shoots at Batman from a distance, apparently killing the vigilante. However, Batman had noticed that the man was not Alfred and he used a dummy, which distracted Turkel long enough for Batman to create a surprise attack and capture the criminal a second time.

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The Water Crimes of Mr. Hydro
Fecha: 1952.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 872 Novaro.

Tim Flagg era un convicto del cual sus compañeros de prisión se burlaban de el llamándolo «Water Boy». Debido a las continuas burlas, Flagg decide escapar de prisión mediante el derrame de un deposito de agua que se encontraba por encima de la prisión. Logrando escapar de la cárcel, se dedico al crimen adoptando un disfraz y autonombrandose Mister Hydro. Los crímenes de Mister Hydro estaban basados en el agua. Aunque logro contratar a unos secuaces para ayudarle a realizar sus delitos fue detenido por Batman y Robin. Mister Hydro no poseía poder alguno, era de corta estatura y era un pésimo combatiente mano a mano, solo contaba con ingenio para planear sus crímenes siempre relacionados con agua

Notas: Debut de Mr. Hydro

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Outlaw Town, USA
Fecha: 1953.03| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A town named Silver Vein is currently run by criminals and serves as the perfect hideout from any law enforcers across the country. When some criminals from Gotham City decide to relocate to Silver Vein, they are immediately followed by Batman and Robin, who capture them and bring them back to Gotham. After their intervention, Silver Vein is reclaimed by the authorities and the rest of the criminals are captured.

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Mr. Roulette’s Greatest Gamble
Fecha: 1953.03| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A mysterious man who calls himself Mr. Roulette contacts Vicki Vale and tells her to write a «scoop» about his constant gambles resulting in life or death. Batman and Robin learn of these dangerous feats and they attempt to stop the mad man before his actions cause an unwanted accident. Roulette doesn’t like Batman’s meddling and he tries to eliminate the Dynamic Duo using his deadly traps, but in the final confrontation, he ends up a victim of his own game.

Notas: Debut de Mr. Roulette

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The Gorilla Boss of Gotham City
Fecha: 1953.03| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Boss Dyke is executed in the gas chambers for his crimes and his body is taken to a doctor who transplants the criminal’s brain into that of a large gorilla. As a result, the gorilla gains consciousness and tells the doctor that after he and his gang have secured needed funds, he wants his brain then transplanted into the Batman’s body and Batman’s brain put into the gorilla. As a gorilla, Dyke starts a series of crimes that would cause him to be chased by the authorities and his main goal is to make the Police unknowingly kill the Batman after the transplant had been performed. However, Batman is able to escape from the gorilla’s grasp and the monster climbs to the top of a building before plunging to the ground, where he remains unconscious. Batman finally discovers the truth about the experiment and the crimes of Boss Dyke are finally revealed.

Notas: Gorilla Boss (Alex “Boss” Bossiey) del Dr. Willard*. La siguiente aparición será en World´s Finest #251 (1978). Debut de Gorila Boss*, la versión deTierra-1 debuta en World´s Finest #251 (1978) y la versión post-crisis en Swamp Thing annual #4 (1988).

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The Danger Club
Fecha: 1953.05| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 2 y 1016, Batman Especial 1 Novaro.

The members of the Danger Club are people whose lives are constantly in danger. When they deny membership to a taxi driver, the man decides to become a racing car driver and ends up dead. His brother, angry at the members of the club, threatens them and not long after this, they start dying in violent murders. To solve the case and capture the killer, Batman decides to join the club himself and he captures the assassin, who is in fact the secretary of the club.

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The Penguin’s Fabulous Fowls
Fecha: 1953.05| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Las mejores historias de Batman 2 (Zinco).

Once again, the Penguin is going to be released from prison, and once again he claims to be «going straight». He claims that, this time, he’s going across the world to prove that the birds of myth like the phoenix and the basilisk actually existed. Batman and Robin think that Penguin’s idea is insane, but since it will supposedly keep him out of trouble, they let him leave. Some time passes, and Batman and Robin (in their civilian identities of Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson) hear a radio broadcast stating that Penguin has returned to Gotham City with a chartered schooner and an incredible announcement. Suspicious of their long time adversary, Batman and Robin go down to Gotham Harbor to see the Penguin. Penguin reveals that he succeeded in capturing the mythical birds, and even has one called the «mystery bird», that he promises will be the downfall of Batman’s career. Reporters and policemen consider Penguin’s musings just a bluff and dismiss him, but the Caped Crusader is still skeptical about Penguin, and decides to follow him to his country aviary. When Batman and Robin arrive in the Batmobile, they are immediately greeted by a frantic Penguin, who claims that crooks had just released all of his birds for his refusal to return to crime. The crooks, still nearby, sideswipe the Batmobile as they flee, temporarily preventing the Dynamic Duo from giving chase. Batman still doesn’t believe in the existence of Penguin’s legendary birds, until a report comes on over the Batmobile’s police scanner stating that a winged lion is flying over Gotham City. The Dynamic Duo take Penguin as they rush back to Gotham, where the winged lion has disappeared and has been replaced with a thunderbird attacking the Billings Building. When they arrive at the Billings Building, the Thunderbird has flown away, and has damaged some valuable art to the point where there are no fragments left. Batman immediately suspects the Penguin is behind it, but with no evidence on him, he’s forced to let the Penguin help wrangle up his birds. They trace the next bird, a phoenix, to Gotham Bank, where cash was supposedly destroyed in the fire. Not wanting to take any chances, Batman and Robin deliver Penguin to Gotham City Police Department for holding while they go to stop Penguin’s basilisk. Penguin manages to convince Commissioner Gordon to free him so he can stop his basilisk. When Batman and Robin arrive to fight the beast, they start to get frozen by it’s glare, until Batman notices a frozen man by the basilisk’s feet and learns the secret of the beast. Penguin, thinking the Duo is frozen, proceeds to rob a jewelry store, but Batman captures him and reveals its not the gaze of the basilisk, but a nerve gas it exhales that freezes its victims. Penguin turns the basilisk on a passing bus, forcing Batman and Robin to chase and stop the bus while Penguin escapes to his hideout. The next morning, Penguin has his henchmen release the «mystery bird,» a giant Man-Bat, while he and his gang use the Roc to rob Gotham Stadium. Batman and Robin go on patrol searching for Penguin’s legendary birds, when they encounter a commotion caused by the Man-Bat. Batman races to the top of one of Gotham’s skyscrapers and knocks the Man-Bat out of the sky to the ground, where it immediately breaks apart, revealing Penguin’s true scheme: using robotic versions of legendary birds to commit crimes. Penguin and his robot Roc soon fly overhead, and Batman and Robin give chase. Over Gotham Stadium, Batman and Robin use a metal mooring line to stop Penguin’s Roc and return him to the bird cage.

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The Man of 100 Murders
Fecha: 1953.05| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Jim Mooney (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A famous actor known for his roles in movies as a ruthless assassin is removed from the production of a new film in which Batman and Robin are involved. The actor turns to crime and decides to replicate the murders of his movies in real life, leading to an extraordinary chase which ends up with him captured by Batman.

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The Crime Predictor
Fecha: 1953.07| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 4 Novaro.

A scientist called Edward Arvin has created a machine than can predict any future crime and he wants to donate his invention to the Gotham City Police Department to help them prevent crimes before they take place. To prove the machine’s worth, Batman and Robin follow the predicted crimes and are surprised to learn that the predictor machine has been accurate. Soon, the Dynamic Duo learn of a new criminal called Mr. Blank, who is apparently gathering criminals to form the largest gang in Gotham. Batman, in disguise, infiltrates a gathering of criminals where Mr. Blank has summoned them and learns that Blank has destroyed the predictor machine to stop Batman and the police from capturing more criminals. This feat earns Blank the gratitude of the thugs, but soon Batman learns that Blank is in fact Edward Arvin. Arvin had been tipped off to the «predicted» crimes through underworld gossip and fed the information into the machine to make it look like it could predict crimes. With a machine that would «predict» crimes, Arvin hoped he could take control over the Gotham underworld.

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The Secret Star
Fecha: 1953.07| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: BC 1 Novaro.

Commissioner Gordon decides to prepare special agents in the force to replace Batman in case anything ever happens to the caped crusader. Gordon gathers an elite group of federal and intelligence agents, and police officers, who are later trained by Batman himself. When Batman is victim of an accident, the Batman chooses one candidate to replace him until he can return to action. Robin reveals to Commissioner Gordon in secret that the man chosen by Batman was chosen, because Batman suspects the man of conspiring with criminals. By the end, the candidate proves his true worth by capturing the criminals responsible for Batman’s accident and reveals his checkered past in a moment of truth.

Notas: Debut de Secret Star , un grupo de 5 policías que reemplazarán a Batman en caso de que quede herido o muerto.

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Batman Pounds a Beat
Fecha: 1953.07| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When Commissioner Gordon has to leave town, he places Captain Harby in charge of the GCPD. Harby, who has always held a grudge against Batman, summons him to work on patrolman duties. Batman and Robin then have to capture petty thieves, rescue trapped animals and even be on the lookout for jaywalkers. During these assignments, Baman and Robin continue investigating a large criminal plot and eventually capture the gangsters. When Harby learns that the Dynamic Duo solved a great case even while on street duty, he realizes the mistake he’s made and decides to stop giving Batman petty assignments.

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The Manhunter from Mars
Fecha: 1953.09| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

There is a mysterious criminal in Gotham City who has succesfully stolen dozens of weapons and always avoids being captured by the Gotham City Police Department. When Batman and Robin start investigating the case, they come across a Martian lawman called Roh Kar who reveals them that the mysterious criminal is, in fact, a fugitive from Mars who is planning a large scale invasion of his planet with weapons from Earth. Batman and Robin decide to help Roh Kar capture the criminal and after an extensive chase, the evil doer is taken back to his planet.

Notas: Debut de Roh Kar, the Man Hunter from Mars, posteriormente J’onn J’onzz será el Marciano Manhunter “official”

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The Sinister Stamps
Fecha: 1953.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A philatelist has a very exclusive stamp collection, all of which depict past tragedies and accidents. When members of a Stamp Collectors Club start dying in a similar way to the accidents from the stamps, Batman infiltrates the club and prevents more murders from happening. After doing some detective work, Batman finds the man responsible for the murders, who is a member of the club trying to increase the value of the stamps in his collection by recreating the tragedies printed on them.

Notas: Debut del Captain Barton* (ex marinero y falsificador)

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Batman of the Mounties
Fecha: 1953.09| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 6 Novaro.

The Canadian Mounted Police are holding a celebration in Batman and Robin’s names, and the Dynamic Duo travel to Canada to attend the event. However, during the celebration, the news about a couple of criminals’ escape spread and the law enforcers have to stop the event and start the hunt for the fugitives in the wilderness. Using their advanced technology and knowledge on survival techniques, Batman and Robin are able to locate the criminals and bring them back to justice. Having captured the criminals, there is more reason to celebrate and after the event is done, the Dynamic Duo return home.

Notas: Debut del uniforme de nieve de Batman y Robin.

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Bride of Batman
Fecha: 1953.11| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Shah of Nairomi arrives in Gotham City to discuss important international matters, but he is helplessly attracted to Vicki Vale, the photographer assigned to cover the Shah’s activities. When the Shah expresses his desire to marry Vicki, she can’t think of a better way out of such predicament than announcing a fake engagement with Batman, who reluctantly agrees to play along. Batman’s crime-fighting activities are somewhat affected by his public relationship with Vicki as she becomes a target for many thugs trying to get to Batman. The situation gets worse when a jealous photographer working for a rival magazine sends out invitations for Batman and Vicki’s wedding to the most important people in Gotham. Vicki couldn’t be happier with these developments, but Batman starts thinking of a way to end the charade. Soon a rumor gets around, that any person who marries Batman must undergo plastic surgery to protect their lives. This story eventually reaches the Shah, who stops the wedding from taking place, as he couldn’t bear the thought of Vicki changing her face. Batman later tells Robin that he started that rumor, which proved useful to get out of this tight situation.

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The Batman of Yesterday
Fecha: 1953.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When a known criminal claims to have recovered a long lost treasure of gold, Batman and Robin ask their trusted friend, Professor Nichols to send them back in time to the Gotham of 1753. In the past, Batman and Robin meet with the legendary Captain Lightfoot, who is known in Gotham’s future for hiding the valuable treasure. Together, the trio stop a criminal who tried to start a war between Gothamites and Native Americans. For his actions, the governor rewards Lightfoot with a certificate, indicating that he is a hero, and Lightfoot hides the document as his most valuable treasure. Upon returning to the present, Batman and Robin capture the criminal, who tried to trick the authorities by claiming the false discovery after stealing a gold shipment from a train.

Notas: Batman viaja en el tiempo a la Gotham de 1753

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Batman – Gang Boss
Fecha: 1953.11| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin are escorts on a prison transport plane when a storm forces them down to what appears to be a deserted island. However, the island is controlled by the murderous pirate Lars Veking, and Batman and Robin find unexpected brothers-in-arms in the form of the prisoners they are escorting. One by one, the prisoners use their criminal talents to help defeat Veking. Afterwards, the prisoners turn on Batman and Robin, who are forced to flee. The prisoners steal Veking’s submarine and head for the mainland, only to find the Police waiting for them. It is later revealed tha Batman and Robin were stowaways in the torpedo tubes of the submarine, and once close enough to Gotham, they ejdcted themselves from the tubes to go get the police, preventing the thugs from escaping.

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The Joker’s Movie Crimes
Fecha: 1953.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 797 Novaro.

The Joker’s latest scheme involves filming his crimes in order to sell them as instructional aids, but when he sees himself lampooned in a new Batman movie he decides to make a film humiliating Batman and Robin. His success is only interrupted when the Dynamic Duo and the police track down his hideout thanks to the film-developing chemicals that his men have been dumping into the Gotham River.

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Dick Grayson’s Nightmare
Fecha: 1953.12| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne arranges to have Wayne Manor redecorated while he is participating in a murder trial in Chicago, leaving Robin to operate out of a nearby cabin belonging to a vacationing mystery writer named Freddy Hobbs. He encounters a mysterious woman who asks for his help and gives him an envelope containing thousands of dollars, but the money subsequently disappears, and when he (as Dick Grayson) tells Commissioner Gordon about this and other mysterious occurrences he is laughed out of police headquarters. He soon discovers that the strange events have been the work of a gang of thieves who are planning on robbing a nearby warehouse and wanted him to discredit himself with the police. As such, he is forced to take them on by himself, as Robin.

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The Machines of Menace
Fecha: 1953.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), B. Kane/L. Schwartz (Dibujos)| Edición española: La Familia Superman nº7 (Editorial Valenciana).

A series of robberies committed in Gotham City by fantastic machines prompts Batman and Robin to follow one out to sea, where they are brought down near the island retreat of genius inventor Eric Golar. After their capture, Batman and Robin learn that Golar dreamt of creating a fully automated city, but that dream was dashed when a thug named Nero Thompson took control of Golar’s machines and imprisoned him. Soon Batman, Robin, and Golar escape, and the Caped Crusaders make short work of Nero and his goons.

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Two-Face Strikes Again
Fecha: 1954.02| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Mej. Hist. 50 Zinco, Batman : Arkham nº2 (Planeta DeAgostini).

Harvey Dent is injured in an explosion resulting in his restoritive plastic surgery coming undone. With his face once again disfigured, Harvey once again resumes his role as Two-Face. Two-Face hires a new gang and begins targeting victims who themselves have two faces. Batman deduces Two-Face’s strategy and pursues the crooks. After a few unsuccessful encounters, Batman and Robin are captured by Two-Face and tied to a giant coin. The coin is flipped above several large spikes, but the Caped Crusaders set up a magnet, so that they land right-side up. Then they round-up Two-Face and his gang.»

Notas: PRIMERO DE TIERRA 1 (Dos-Caras vuelve a ser villano).

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The Boy Wonder Confesses
Fecha: 1954.02| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Dick Grayson confesses to his classmates that he is Robin. Then he performs acrobatic stunts to prove it. Reporters confront Bruce Wayne, but he denies his identity as Batman. Bruce offers to give the reporters proof that he is not Batman. Bruce and Dick are executing a plan to protect their identities because a crook called Mr. Camera got photographic evidence of their dual identities months earlier. The crook is in jail, but one of his henchmen is scheduled to be released soon and will retrieve the film. To fool the reporters Batman creates a Batman figure made of snow on a rooftop. He then appears as Bruce and using ventriloquism to make the snowman talk. Batman then appears to leave the roof via the Batplane, which is actually controlled by Robin. Bruce melts the snowman, so that when reporters reach the roof everything is gone. The reporters are fooled, so when the film turns up it won’t be believed. A short time later, Batman and Robin recover the film only to learn it was underexposed, so it would not have given away their identities.»

Notas: Debut de Mr. Camera

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The Phantom Bandit of Gotham City
Fecha: 1954.02| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The police are stymied by the Phantom Bandit, a crook capable of breaking into the most secure vaults. Batman tangles with the Bandit, but is unable to capture the thief. Clues lead Batman to a nightclub where a swami performs tricks for rich patrons. Both Batman and Vicki Vale deduce that the swami is the Bandit. Vicki plans a trap for the crook. She is outwitted, but Batman is on hand to capture the crook and expose him as gangster Muggsy Morton.

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The Flying Batman
Fecha: 1954.03| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin are brought to the Lost Valley of the Bird-Men by a flying man with wings. The man and the inhabitants of the valley ask Batman’s assistance to defeat the Gravio Clan, a winged family of tyrants. Batman agrees to help. He is given wings via a surgical procedure that enables him to fly. Batman and Robin then apprehend the rogues. After defeating the Gravios, Batman’s wings are removed, and he returns to Gotham.

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The Man Who Could Change Fingerprints
Fecha: 1954.03| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Lew Farnum escapes from prison and visits a plastic surgeon, Doc Brice. Farnum then commits a small robbery. After the robbery, Farnum proves to several other crooks that he had his fingerprints changed. He offers to do the same for them if they steal for him. When the crooks commit their robberies, Batman catches one of them. Then he infiltrates the gang disguised as Pepper Nolan. When he is about to undergo the process to have his prints changed, Farnum tries to kill him. He anticipated the action and stops Farnum. He then exposes the fingerprint alteration as a hoax, perpetrated to trick the crooks. Farnum and his associates are then sent back to prison.

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The Olympic Games of Crime
Fecha: 1954.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 789 Novaro.

Gotham gang boss Dimples Drew decides to hold an Olympics of Crime. Crooks from around the country flock to Gotham to compete in various events. Batman captures some of them, then infiltrates the gang disguised as Lefty Lanning. Drew anticipated Batman’s interference and is able to penetrate the lawman’s disguise. For the final olympic event, Drew announces that Batman is in the crowd. The crooks all try to kill him, but despite their efforts Batman escapes from harm, then traps the crooks. Robin arrives with the police, and the crooks are arrested.

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The Duplicate Batman
Fecha: 1954.04| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: La Familia Superman nº9 (Editorial Valenciana).

A gang of crooks learns that Batman has been stranded in the mountains after crashing the Batplane. They coerce ex-convict Harry Larson, who coincidentally is a perfect look-alike for Bruce Wayne, into impersonating Batman. Larson is afflicted with amnesia after a blow to the head and found by Robin, who believes him to be the real Batman. He later regains his memory, but he has a change of heart and dies saving the life of the real Batman.

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The Deep Sea Diver Mystery
Fecha: 1954.04| Créditos: Alvin Schwartz (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A man in diving gear is murdered outside the home of Commissioner Gordon. The man whispers two words to Gordon before dying. Batman deciphers the clue, which leads him to a gym in the Quinlan district. While Batman examines the swimming pool, the employees of the gym try to kill him. They are members of Big Jim’s mob. Batman escapes from their trap and then examines the water tower. Inside he finds a fish with a band around it. The band reveals the location of stolen papers. Batman and Robin become trapped inside the tank, but they escape the trap again.

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The Testing of Batman
Fecha: 1954.04| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman agrees to help psychologist Dr. Thorson with some experiments and testing. Crime boss Hatchet Marley learns of the experiments and replaces Thorson. Marley then forces Batman and Robin to complete several physical and psychological tests. Batman realizes the tests will help Marley rob the Gotham Mint. He sabotages Marley’s plan and turns the tests against the gangster’s men. When the gang is defeated, Batman releases Thorson.

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The Valley of Giant Bees
Fecha: 1954.06| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin follow a gang of sugar thieves to a secluded jungle location. A strong wind knocks Batman off a cliff. When he recovers he discover the sugar thieves are drones working for a race of giant bees. Batman battles the bees and tries to rescue Robin, who has been taken captive. When he finally finds Robin, he is shaken back to his senses. He had only imagined the bees in a hallucination caused by the fall. Robin shows him the the sugar thieves are really bootleggers with an illegal liquor still. .

Notas: Debut de Queen Bee

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The Sleeping Beauties of Gotham City
Fecha: 1954.06| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 11 Novaro.

Selina Kyle enters a beauty contest. Batman tries to arrest her for her crimes as Catwoman, but Selina claims that she isn’t the feline female. Without proof, Batman is forced to let her go. Selina then succumbs to a strange sleeping sickness. While Selina sleeps in a glass case, Catwoman is still on the loose. Other beauty pageant contestants also fall victim to the sleeping sickness with Catwoman’s help. Selina awakens from her illness and wins the contest, since her competition is still asleep. When she is awarded the prize, Batman steps in. The prize contains stolen diamonds. Selina was part of a smuggling operation. Batman then proves that Selina wasn’t in the glass case, it was faked using movie projectors.

Notas: Catwoman regresa a Gotham siendo arrestada

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Ten Nights of Fear
Fecha: 1954.06| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman lends his belt radio to a detective from Scotland Yard for inspection. When he gets it back, he begins having terrible nightmares. The next day, he sees objects from the nightmares while awake. The dilemma causes Batman to lose his sanity. Robin takes him to a doctor, where Batman realizes that the inspector was a phony. He examines the radio and discovers the tampering. With a clear head, Batman rounds up the gang, then gets a good night’s sleep.

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Batman – Clown of Crime
Fecha: 1954.08| Créditos: David Vern Reed (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When the Joker is paroled from prison, Batman keeps an eye on him, suspecting that the Clown Prince intends to return to crime. Batman follows his foe into a laboratory. By accident both Batman and the Joker are exposed to epsilon rays which cause them to exchange personalities. While Robin seeks a cure for Batman’s predicament, the Joker contacts the underworld. Since he has Batman’s body he offers to expose the secret identity of the Caped Crusader for a million dollars. Batman, stuck in the Joker’s own body, works to stop his foe. He befuddles police by catching crooks, then prevents the Joker from giving away his secret. Robin eventually comes through with a cure. Then the two foes are restored to their own bodies.

Notas: Posible debut del JokerTierra-1.

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The Guardian of the Bat-Signal
Fecha: 1954.08| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 980 Novaro.

When veteran cop, Harvey Hainer, proves to be unfit for duty, Batman has him appointed as guardian of the Bat-Signal. Batman and Robin soon find themselves in pursuit of a gang of parachuting thieves. When the Bat-Signal is not activated on time, they are too slow to catch the crooks. Hainer claims he never received notification to turn on the signal, but everything appears to work fine. Batman investigates and learns Hainer is blind. Rather than have the cop fired, Batman helps him activate the signal without sight. When the crooks strike again, a technical malfunction prevents Hainer from activating the signal. This time, he comes up with an alternate way of alerting Batman. When Batman gets the timely alert, he and Robin are able to apprehend the gang.

Notas: Debut del oficial de policía Harvey HainerTierra-2. La versión deTierra-1 aparecerá en Batman v1 #265 (1975).

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The Costume of Doom
Fecha: 1954.08| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 13 Novaro.

Vicki Vale arranges a reunion of Batman impersonators for a photo shoot. A gunmen fires at the men during the session injuring one of them. Further attacks are carried out against the impersonators including Bruce Wayne. Batman prevents harm from befalling any of the other intended victims, then returns to the scene of one of the attacks. Actor Hubert Hall, one of the impersonators, is in the process of aiding a criminal gang in stealing a load of gold bullion. Batman had deduced that Hall was working with the crooks. He tricks both Hall and his partners into confessions then explains to police that Hall used his position as an actor in a Batman movie to help the gang. He was in danger of being replaced due to his poor acting skill, so the gang attempted to injure potential replacements.

Batman v1 #86
The Voyage of the First Batmarine
Fecha: 1954.09| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin perform an underwater salvage of some dangerous explosives. However, they stay down too long and will get the Bends if they surface to quickly. They are forced to live inside a pressurized submarine for two days while they recover. Slant Stacey, a jewel thief, takes advantage of Batman’s situation to perform several robberies. Despite needing to remain underwater, Batman foils Stacey’s plans. Finally, Stacey lures Batman out of the water to stop him. Batman uses a robot instead, apprehending Stacey without costing him his life.

Notas: Debut del Batmarine o Bat-boat*

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The Joker’s Winning Team
Fecha: 1954.09| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

While watching a baseball game, the Joker is inspired to trade henchmen with other gangs like teams trade players. By trading for specialists, the Joker pulls several successful jobs. Batman uncovers Joker’s strategy and goes undercover as Boom-Boom Harry. Batman is then able to infiltrate the Joker’s mob and stop his next crime, apprehending the Clown Prince in the process.

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Batman – Indian Chief
Fecha: 1954.09| Créditos: France Herron (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman : Los Archivos Negros (Planeta DeAgostini).

While returning to Gotham City, Batman and Robin spot a smoke signal in the shape of a bat. They land and discover indian versions of themselves known as Chief Man-of-the-Bats and Little Raven. Chief Man-of-the-Bats is injured and fears the injury will expose his identity to Black Elk, so Batman and Robin replace the indian duo. Batman locates Black Elk, but becomes trapped. Chief Man-of-the-Bats, in his guise as Great Eagle arrives in time to rescue Batman and preserve both their secret identities.

Notas: Man-of-the-Bats y Little Raven aparecerán en la continuidad post crisis en Batman v1 #667 (10.2007)

Batman v1 #87
Batman’s Greatest Thrills
Fecha: 1954.10| Créditos: Bill Woolfolk (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman is the subject of the «Your Life Story» television program. He is lured to a theater where a tv host introduces him to many of his associates and people from past cases. The Joker interrupts the proceedings and uses laughing gas on the audience. Batman and Robin are still able to apprehend the Clown Prince. Bruce Wayne is the final guest. During the commotion caused by the Joker, Alfred replaces Batman, allowing Bruce and Batman to appear on stage together.

Notas: Debut del Professor Vilmer. Batman repasa su vida en la TV.

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The Synthetic Crime King
Fecha: 1954.10| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Discredited scientist Professor Vilmer creates a synthetic man named Adam Newman. Vilmer uses Newman to get even with the university that fired him. Newman begins to rebel, but Vilmer maintains control through an elixir which Newman must drink each day to sustain his life. When Vilmer orders Newman to kill Batman, Newman finally defies his orders. Batman then discovers that Newman is not synthetic at all. He is an ordinary man given amnesia by Vilmer. Batman disguises himself as Newman to get close to Vilmer, then apprehends the rogue scientist. Afterwards, Newman is given back his life as athlete Johnny Marden.

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Batman Falls in Love
Fecha: 1954.10| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman is assigned to guard model Magda Luvescu while she is in Gotham. Magda has been targeted by a smuggling ring for assassination. Batman captures the assassins, then begins dating Magda. Vicki Vale gets jealous and intends to break up a private meeting between the model and Batman. She inadvertently stops Batman from apprehending an international crook, who was in love with Magda. Batman had staged his romance to lure the crooks from hiding. Despite Vicki’s interference Batman protects both girls and captures the fugitive.

Batman v1 #88
The Mystery of the Four Batmen
Fecha: 1954.12| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 1152 Novaro, Batilibro tomo II Novarro.

While capturing jewel thief Duke Walling, Batman uncovers a lead to a smuggling operation. Batman follows the lead to a ocean liner, where a «Batman» is thought to be aboard. Batman investigates everyone on board and finds three Batmen, but a fourth Batman is aboard. «Batman» is also a Iranian measurement, and the jewel thiefs are smuggling jewels inside fake statues that weigh a «Batman». Batman uncovers the plot and recovers the jewels.

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Three Letters to Batman
Fecha: 1954.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin stop a criminal gang during a robbery, however the loot mysteriously disappears. Later, a letter arrives which indicates someone is watching the Dynamic Duo. Robin tries to learn the identity of the observer, and after a second encounter with the gang, another letter arrives. During the third encounter with the gang, Batman solves the mystery of the disappearing loot. The gang used balloons to float the loot to a waiting helicopter. Robin also solves the puzzle of the mysterious letter writer, whose third letter reveals his knowledge of Batman’s secret identity. Batman himself wrote the letters to test Robin.

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The Son of Batman
Fecha: 1954.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 15 Novaro.

Ex-con Ed Wilson is shot while impersonating Batman for his son. Batman grants Wilson’s dying request to help his son Tommy who thinks his dad is Batman. Batman impersonates Wilson for Tommy while continuing to search for the gang that killed Wilson. Tommy follows Batman and is captured. Wilson unexpectedly recovers from the gunshot and helps Batman rescue Tommy. Wilson had also seen Batman’s real face, but while in a coma recovering from the wound, his mind blanked out the information, protecting Batman’s identity.

Batman v1 #89
River Rogues
Fecha: 1955.02| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Commissioner Gordon is disgraced when a newspaper article surfaces revealing his great-grandfather led a gang of bandits. Batman and Robin are sent back in time by Professor Nichols to learn the story of river boat captain John Gordon. Batman and Robin get a job as entertainers aboard Gordon’s showboat. At each stop the boat makes, a gang of bandits strike. Batman stops a train robbery attempt and recognizes Gordon as one of the bandits. Gordon is arrested, but further investigation reveals Gordon was impersonated. Batman discovers the real bandit leader, show director Baird Hawes. Gordon is cleared, and Batman returns to the present. The Caped Crusader is then able to locate proof of Gordon’s innocence, restoring Commissioner Gordon’s family name.

Notas: Batman y Robin conocen en 1854 a John Gordon, un ancestro del Comisario Gordon

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The Seven Wonders of the Underworld
Fecha: 1955.02| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Underworld chief Vince Varden gathers seven amazing inventions designed for criminal purposes. The last of these inventions is a gas that Varden believes will end Batman’s career. Varden’s gang use the machines to rob Gotham City. Batman tries to stop their first crime, but the inventions allow the crooks to escape. Batman then meets the crooks at their next robbery and is exposed to the gas. While trailing the crooks back to their hide-out, Batman’s chest emblem and Robin’s «R» fall off their costumes. Batman realizes that the gas must destroy silk, including their bat-ropes. When Batman attempts to use the bat-rope, it breaks. The crooks think Batman has fallen to his death, but Batman tricks them with a dummy. Finally, Batman and Robin apprehend the crooks and capture the crime inventions.

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Bruce Wayne’s Aunt Agatha
Fecha: 1955.02| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 17 Novaro.

Bruce Wayne’s aunt Agatha comes to Gotham to stay with Bruce and Dick. She sees them in costume and suspects they are going to a masquerade. The Dynamic Duo then battles the Rotor-Robbers, but fail to capture the gang. The next evening, Bruce and Dick go out again. Agatha again believes they are going to a masquerade. They are captured by the bandits. Agatha has followed them to the masquerade in a Joker costume. She rescues them and pulls off Bruce’s cowl in front of the crooks. She still doesn’t realize that Bruce is not just pretending to be Batman. She even convinces the crooks that Bruce is not the real Batman. Batman then defeats the crooks, and Agatha goes home.

Notas: Debut de la Tía Agatha* de Dick Grayson. En la continuidad post crisis aparecerá en flashback en Batman v1 #565 (1999).

Batman v1 #90
The Web of Doom
Fecha: 1955.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Research scientist Dr. Peter Driscoll is injured while delivering a package of hazardous materials. Driscoll’s memory is lost in the accident. Batman must help restore Discoll’s memory by tracking down three ex-cons, whom Driscoll knew in hopes that they can restore his memory. With some difficulty, Batman tracks down each man. Seeing the men restores Driscoll’s memory, allowing him to remember where the hazardous package was lost. Batman is able to track down the missing package before anyone can be harmed.

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City of Fantasy
Fecha: 1955.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

A new invention, the illus-o-ray, is stolen from the lab of Dr. Frank Bolton. Crooks use the machine to disorient nearby people while they committ robberies. Batman and Robin are affected by the machine too, so they begin using sonar to make up for their distorted vision. The crooks use special googles, leaving them immune to the ray’s effects. While fighting the crooks, Batman secretly swaps googles with two of the men. The next time they class, Batman and Robin wear the special googles, enabling them to overcome the machine and defeat the crooks.

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The Adventures of Batboy
Fecha: 1955.03| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin are knocked out by the gang of Tapper Nolan. However, a masked boy named Batboy rescues them and captures the gang. Batboy continues to pursue the rest of the gang on his own. One night he meets Robin, who deduces that he is not a boy, but actually a midget. Batboy explains that Tapper Nolan was responsible for the death of two other midgets, and he wants to bring the crook to justice. Batboy and Robin then team up to take down the crook. After his success, Batboy retires from crimefighting, becoming a baseball batboy.

Notas: Debut de Batboy*

Batman v1 #91
The Living Batplane
Fecha: 1955.04| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

While Batman tests a new remote-control device for the Batmobile and Bat-Plane, crooks break into the lab of Dr. Winters, the designer of the remotes. The crooks, led by Slant Stafford, take control of both vehicles. Batman disables the Batmobile, but the Bat-Plane is piloted out of the Bat-Cave. Using the Bat-Plane, the crooks begin a series of daring robberies. Batman and Robin attempt to regain control by getting inside the jet. The crooks maneuver the plane to throw off the passengers and watch as the Dynamic Duo apparently fall to their deaths. However, Batman used dummies to trick the crooks. Once inside the plane, Batman regains control, then rounds up Stafford and his gang.

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Batman’s Publicity Agent
Fecha: 1955.04| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Publicity agent Mike Whalen receives an anonymous donation to begin a large campaign promoting Batman. The campaign continually interferes with the Caped Crusader’s crime-fighting operations. Batman tries to end the campaign, but it only gets worse. Finally Batman deduces that crooks must be using the interference intentionally to help them escape. Batman approaches Whalen with a plan which succeeds in trapping the gang boss, Blinky Grosset. With the crime boss captured, Whalen also ends his publicity campaign.

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The Map of Mystery
Fecha: 1955.04| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 20 Novaro, Batman 884 Novaro.

A collection of army ants are released from their cages to create a distraction which allows a thief to search for a clue to the location of a hidden city. After recaging the ants, Batman and Robin investigate the thefts. They learn that the thief was seeking the location of a South American city archaeologist Guy Hawtree found treasure. Hawtree left one clue behind. Batman races to find the clue, but the thief gets it first. Using the clue, the thief travels to South America to find the treasure. Batman unravels the clue despite the thief’s attempt to keep it secret. He follows the man to the hidden city. The thief, Rand Blanning, has arrived first and knocked out Hawtree. He tries to stop Batman from capturing him, but fails. The treasure is preserved, and Blanning returns to America as Batman’s prisoner.

Batman v1 #92
Fan Mail of Danger
Fecha: 1955.06| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The post office summons Batman because they are swamped by tons of mail addressed to the Caped Crusader. Batman rents an office and hires secretary Susie Smith to help answer the mail. Susie wants the job to be permanent, so she grants an interview with reporters. She tells them that Batman answers every letter which causes the incoming mail to triple. The excess mail begins to hamper Batman’s crime-fighting duties. Also forger Vincent Crail uses the mail to obtain Batman’s signature which he compares to several men suspected of being Batman. Batman tracks down Crail and protects his identity by signing his name with his left hand. Batman finally finishes answering the backlog of mail and encourages people to stop sending it.

Notas: Esta historia es similar a la narrada en World’s Finest #60 (1952).

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Batman’s Guilty Neighbor
Fecha: 1955.06| Créditos: Dave Wood (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne meets his new neighbor Cal Tremont. After the meeting police tell Bruce that Tremont is a suspect in a series of burglaries. After one theft Batman chases a suspect back to Tremont’s house, but the man has an alibi. Batman continues to investigate and determines that Tremont’s gardener is the real crook.

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Ace, the Bat-Hound
Fecha: 1955.06| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 22 Novaro.

Batman and Robin rescue an injured dog from a nearby stream. While they are trying to find his owner, they are chagrined to find that the dog runs after the Batmobile. They are forced to take him along, with a black mask to cover a distinctive mark on his forehead. After the dog helps them take down escaped con Bert Bowers, who calls him “Bat-Hound”, the Dynamic Duo accept that as a working name for their new pet. Bat-Hound helps Batman and Robin track down his owner, John Wilker, an engraver held captive by counterfeiters. They learn that Bat-Hound’s real name is Ace, and, after the case is closed, reunite him with Wilker.

Notas: Debut de Ace*, el Batperro, en la continuidad post crisis lo encontrará en Batman v1 #464 (1991). Supone el inicio de la bat-familia que se completará con Batwoman, (1956), Mogo, el Bat-mono (1958) Bat-mito (1959). Ace está inspirado en el famoso perro Rin Tin Tin de la serie de TV (1954-1959). Alfred utiliza el apodo de “Thaddeus Krane” afirmando que es su segundo nombre.

Batman v1 #93
Journey to the Top of the World
Fecha: 1955.08| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin join a mountain climbing expedition in search of a lost container of stolen microfiche. The party begins the ascent of K-4, and soon runs into trouble as one of the ropes is cut causing Sidney Smythe to fall to his apparent death. Batman suspects the other climbers are responsible. He investigates and is attacked by an masked climber. Batman eventually reaches the top of the mountain and retrieves the container. The killer turns out to be Smythe who staged the fall. He struggles with Batman, then falls to his death. When Batman returns from the mountain he learns that the real Smythe was never on the expedition. The dead man was an imposter.

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Batman, Baby Sitter
Fecha: 1955.08| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Jane, Bruce Wayne’s cousin, drops her son off at Wayne Manor unexpectedly. Bruce, Dick, and Alfred are forced to care for the child while his mother is away. Batman is forced to find milk and toys for the baby to keep him appeased while continuing to fight crime. The baby learns Batman’s secret identity and nearly gives away the secret when his mother returns. Fortunately, Dick covers for Bruce by claiming that the baby said «bad man» instead of Batman.

Notas: Batman se convierte en la niñera del hijo de su prima Jane

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The Caveman Batman
Fecha: 1955.08| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 24, Batman 962 Novaro.

When an archaeologist, Dr. William Sayre, discovers a carving of dinosaurs by cavemen, he is discredited as a fraud. Bruce Wayne decides to help Dr. Sayre by going back in time with the help of Professor Nichols. In the past Bruce and Dick Grayson become Batman and Robin and befriend a mask-wearing caveman named Tiger Man. They help Tiger Man defeat a tyrant called Borr, who threatens his tribe. Borr’s secret weapon is a dinosaur frozen in ice. The dinosaur gets free when Batman starts a fire. It rampages for a few moments before dying. Following the encounter, Tiger Man announces that he will draw the events on a cave wall. When Bruce returns to the present, he explains that the dinosaur existed at the same time as humans only because it had been trapped in ice for millions of years.

Notas: Batman viaja a la edad de piedra

Batman v1 #94
The Sign of the Bat
Fecha: 1955.09| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman is unable to get evidence against crime boss John Marstin. He begins a campaign to frighten Marstin and his men using the bat symbol. Every time the crooks commit a crime they see the symbol. Spooked, the crooks retrieve the loot they’ve already stolen. Batman and Robin then move in and catch the thieves with the stolen goods as evidence.

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The New Batman
Fecha: 1955.09| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

While cleaning the Bat-Cave Alfred is struck in the head. When he recovers he believes that he is really Batman. Batman and Robin humor Alfred by allowing him to play the role. They ensure that Alfred is out of the way during moments of action. When Alfred is struck again while trying to fight a gang of thieves, he recovers his memory. Batman apprehends the crooks, and Alfred returns to his role as butler.

Notas: Alfred amnésico cree ser Batman

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The Mystery of the Sky Museum
Fecha: 1955.09| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 28 Novaro.

Batman and Robin are called to the Sky Museum by curator William Malcolm. When they arrive, they save Malcolm from a dangerous crash. Malcolm is injured and can’t explain what happened. Batman then begins investigating the museum. Crooks try to kill Batman using old flying machines. When they fail, they knock Robin unconscious and place him into a balloon. While Batman rescues him, the crooks try to escape. Batman returns in time to stop them. He exposes an operation to smuggle criminals out of Gotham in an old airship. Malcolm’s assistant John Goss is exposed as the ringleader for the gang.

Batman v1 #95
The Guardian of 100 Cities
Fecha: 1955.10| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin follow four escaped convicts including Shag Darnell to a movie storage lot. They tell the watchman to call for police, but instead the watchman interferes with their pursuit. The man is Roger Stanton, a former actor who has turned his back on the world. He doesn’t want a police battle to ruin his little world filling with movie props. Batman pursues the crooks anyway. When they knock over a large statue, Batman risks himself to save Stanton. Batman and Robin are captured by the crooks. Stanton knocks out Darnell and frees Batman. After the crooks are rounded up, Stanton explains that Batman has given him a new outlook on life.

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The Bat-Train
Fecha: 1955.10| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin create a mobile Bat-Cave on a train to display in other towns. During the trip crooks try to rob the museum car which contains trophies from Batman’s previous cases. Batman deduces the item that the crooks are after and leaves a trap for them. He captures the gang, who are former associates of the late Wires Welken. One of Batman’s trophies was a spool of wire which contained a recording naming the crooks. They wanted to steal it to prevent being exposed.

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The Ballad of Batman
Fecha: 1955.10| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 30 Novaro.

Sam Strong, a singing minstrel, comes to Gotham to perform his ballad devoted to Batman. He writes verses about each of Batman’s deeds, but one verse tips off crooks to Batman’s plan to capture them. When Batman’s plan fails, he contacts Strong and has him create a new verse. The crooks strike again using the information contained in the song. This time however Batman used the song as a trap for the crooks. Strong returns to his home after Batman thanks him for his help.

Notas: PRIMERO DE TIERRA 1

Batman v1 #96
His Majesty, King Batman
Fecha: 1955.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman and Robin guard the visiting King of Norania and the crown jewels. Batman and the king swap identities to fool the thieves who are trying to steal the jewels. Batman inspects the jewels and learns they are fakes. He suspects the king’s advisors, but continues the impersonation. The king proves to be a poor Batman, and Robin has to protect him from danger. Eventually the capture the gang, and Batman can end the impersonation. He also has deduced that the king had hid the real jewels to protect them.

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Batman’s College Days
Fecha: 1955.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Bruce Wayne attends a reunion of his college teammates aboard a yacht. The yacht is commandeered by Joe Danton, a classmate, jealous of Bruce. Danton takes the boat into a mine field intending to kill everyone aboard. Bruce disappears and returns as Batman. He disables the mines before they can destroy the boat. However, Danton learns his double identity. Batman believes Danton will expose him, but instead he has seen Batman risk his own life and reforms. He then dies of a heart condition, taking Batman’s secret to the grave.

Notas: Joe Danton, compañero de clase de Bruce, descubre que él es Batman por una cicatriz, pero muere

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The Third Alarm For Batman
Fecha: 1955.12| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 32 Novaro.

Batman is asked to join the Gotham City Fire Department during fire prevention week. The Caped Crusader is called upon to investigate the causes of fires and recommend prevention steps to the public. During the week, Batman uncovers evidence against a smuggling ring. He calls upon the fire department to help him stop the ring and arrest the crooks.

Batman v1 #97
The Joker Announces Danger
Fecha: 1956.02| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

When Batman appears as a guest announcer on a television program, the Joker decides to use announcers as part of his next crime spree. He leaves clues for Batman to follow, but stays one step ahead of the Caped Crusader during his first two crimes. When staging his third robbery, Joker is interrupted by the early arrival of Batman. He attempts to make his escape, but this time Batman stops his getaway.

Notas: Posible debut del JokerTierra-1

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Doom On Channel 14
Fecha: 1956.02| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

Batman helps a TV studio reenact the capture of Marty Kirk. During the show, Kirk’s gang holds the studio hostage and captures Batman and Robin. They force Kirk to be released from prison. Batman escapes and stops the gang. Then he tracks down Kirk in a warehouse retrieving his stolen loot. Batman captures the crook again, sending him back to prison.

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The Return of the Bat-Hound
Fecha: 1956.02| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 34 Novaro.

A gang of crooks forces dog trainer Ross Millen to help them with their crimes. Millen trains his dog Whitey to bypass security systems, so the gang can enter secure buildings. Batman decides to use Ace the Bat-Hound to help track down Millen. When Millen is caught he explains that the crooks threatened him and his dog and forced him to help. Batman poses as Millen to verify his story. Once he learns Millen is innocent, Batman and Ace apprehend the crooks.

Batman v1 #98
The Return of Mr. Future
Fecha: 1956.03| Créditos: A. Drake/B. Finger (Guiones), Dick Sprang (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 36 Novaro.

When crooks steal the blueprints to a secret weapon designed by Jules Verne, Batman and Robin visit Professor Nichols. Batman is sent back in time to meet Jules Verne himself. Verne reveals the nature of the weapon, which uses sound for destructive force. Batman returns to the present with Verne, who then constucts a counter-measure for the weapon. Verne helps Batman use the counter-weapon to defeat the crooks. After a brief tour of the future, Verne returns to his own time.

Notas: Viaje en el tiempo a principios del siglo 20 donde conocen a Julio Verne

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The Desert Island Batman
Fecha: 1956.03| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 36 Novaro.

Bruce Wayne joins fellow millionaires on a cruise because he suspects trouble from criminals. The ship is hijacked and the millionaires are held on a small island. Bruce becomes Batman, signals Robin, then helps the prisoners. The millionaires suspect that Batman is one of their own, and soon narrow the suspects down to just Bruce. When Robin arrives, he helps Batman defeat the hijackers. Batman then tricks the millionaires to protect his secret identity.

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Secret of the Batmobile
Fecha: 1956.03| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 36 Novaro.

When Batman pursues the Racer in the Batmobile, Vicki Vale snaps a photo of the chase. Batman sees the photo and worries that it will reveal a secret. He convinces Vicki to run several stories of cases in which the Batmobile was used before printing the photo. The reason for this is that the engine of the Batmobile was damaged. While repairs continued, Batman replaced the Batmobile with Bruce Wayne’s sportscar. Vicki’s photo showed the sportscar and would have given away his identity. Batman finishes the Batmobile repairs and catches the Racer. Vicki deduces that her photo pictured a fake Batmobile, but she turns the picture over to Batman without realizing the secret it held.

Notas: Debut de Vicki ValeTierra-1.

Batman v1 #99
The Golden Eggs
Fecha: 1956.04| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Inédito.

The Penguin begins a series of crimes based on eggs that he has gathered. Each crime is based upon the type of bird that hatches from the egg. Batman deciphers the Penguin’s clues and arrives at the scene of each crime. Penguin escapes, but Batman tracks down his hide-out. Penguin is then betrayed by one of the eggs which contains a baby alligator. The alligator bites his leg, allowing Batman to stop him.

Notas: Debut del PingüinoTierra-1

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Batman–Frontier Marshal
Fecha: 1956.04| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 1142 Novaro.

An old newspaper article from the frontier days of America surfaces picturing Batman and claiming that he used a gun. Batman refutes the article, then investigates by travelling back in time with the help of Professor Nichols. Batman arrives in Plains City and is soon made temporary marshal after capturing outlaw Pecos Pete. Batman deduces that Harris Harper is sabotaging the railroads. He captures Harper, then tracks down two men set to destory the railroad trestle. When the men try to escape, another lawman, Bat Masterson, arrives on the scene and shoots one of the outlaws. Batman returns to his own time with the explanation that the article headline was referring to Bat Masterson, not Batman.

Notas: Viaje en el tiempo al lejano oeste

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The Phantom of the Bat-Cave
Fecha: 1956.04| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 39 Novaro, Baticomic 7 Novaro.

Batman fails to capture two bandits and their masked leader during one of their crimes. He does find a box held by the leader which he examines in the Bat-Cave. The box yields no clues, so Batman places it in his trophy case. The next day the box is gone and a tiny top hat is in its place. Batman battles the crooks again. They escape again, this time leaving behind a toy gun. Batman again places the evidence in the trophy case. The next day, the gun is gone, having been replaced by another tiny top hat. Batman suspects that the crook has learned the location of the Bat-Cave. When the magician then tries to blackmail Batman, threatening to expose Batman’s secret identity, Batman agrees to pay. When Batman drops off the money, he traps the crook, who claims to know Batman’s secret. However, Batman has already deduced that the trophies were made of memory plastic which resumed its original shape. The crook wasn’t in the Bat-Cave at all, so Batman’s secret identity remains safe.

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Batmantown, U.S.A.
Fecha: 1956.06| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 41 Novaro.

The city of Plainville decides to change the town name to Batmantown in order to inspire growth. Batman suspects it will make the town a target for criminals, but the town appears to be crime free. Batman then learns that a criminal named Barsh has kicked the other crooks out of town, so that he can pull a big job on the unsuspecting townspeople. Batman and Robin disguise themselves as actors in the town pageant. Then they stop Barsh’s operation. The town agrees to change the name back to Plainville to protect itself from further criminal activity.

Notas: Debut de Barsh* (criminal)

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The Hunters of Gotham City
Fecha: 1956.06| Créditos: No acreditado (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 41 Novaro.

An accident at the docks allows several zoo animals to escape into Gotham City. Batman and the keepers track the animals, though Batman discovers that they were released on purpose. He recaptures each of the animals and proves that one of the animal trainers used the ape Pongo to smuggle jewels into the country. Batman recovers the jewels and the smuggler is arrested.

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The Great Batman Contest
Fecha: 1956.06| Créditos: Bill Finger (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Batman 41 Novaro y Baticomic 9.

Batman holds a contest where new crime-fighting inventions are submitted in an attempt to win a scholarship prize. Batman tests each of the final four inventions against crooks. Each of the first three look promising, but they have serious drawbacks. The final invention, the Bat-Kite, helps Batman with aerial photography and combat. The kite and its inventor Jeff Keating are awarded first prize.

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The Vanished Batman
Fecha: 1956.08| Créditos: Edmond Hamilton (Guiones), Sheldon Moldoff (Dibujos)| Edición española: Baticomic 10.

Gothamites are startled to see a Batman-less Robin taking care of crimes and emergencies on his own, and even more startled to see the Batmobile and Batplane and Bat-signal redesigned into a Robinmobile,Robinplane and Robin-signal, respectively. Tv newsmen and newpaper writers begin asking the question, «Where is Batman?» Gotham gangchief Pack Purdy and his lieutenant John Vair think they know, because “Vair” has told Purdy that he pushed Batman into the sea. Actually, such was Vair’s mission, but he failed in it and Batman, disguised as Vair, is now infiltrating Purdy’s mob to get the goods on the “Big Job” he is hiring out-of-town mobsters to help with. Said job proves to be an underwater attempt to cut through the hull of the docked ship Natonic and steal five million dollars from it. Batman gets word to Robin in time for the police to net the would-be theives, and joins Robin in nabbing Purdy and his closest aides. Then the Caped Crusader makes his public reappearance, with the operation a total success. «