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Batman #4

DC · Series began 1940 · Winter 1941

Dates

Cover date
Winter 1941
On sale
January 15, 1941
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Bob Kane, Henry Boltinoff, Lou Paige, Raymond Perry, Fred Harmaninks: Jerry Robinson, George Roussos, Henry Boltinoff, Lou Paige, Raymond Perry, Bob Kane, Fred Harmanscript: Bill Finger, Henry Boltinoff, Clem Gordon, Bob Kaneletters: George Roussos, Henry Boltinoff

Stories

  • The Case of the Joker's Crime Circus! · 13 pages

    The Joker organizes a crime circus that performs at the homes of wealthy patrons to size up the joint, then later robs them.

  • Blackbeard's Crew and the Yacht Society · 13 pages

    When an exclusive yacht is taken over by a band of pirates led by the immortal Blackbeard himself, the Batman and Robin come aboard to swab the decks with them.

  • Public Enemy No. 1 · 13 pages

    Batman must contend with Jimmy McCoy, a young bully who claws his way up through the ranks until he becomes the overlord of crime, but ends up being deserted by his mob, hunted by the Police and killed in a gutter.

  • Code of the Glove · 1.5 pages
  • Untitled · 2 pages

    Ginger and Wilbur go for a boat ride, but the boat sinks a mile out. Ginger then finds a novel way of making it back to shore.

  • Touchdown for Justice · 13 pages

    The Caped Crusader doubles as a star football player, who has been kidnapped in order that his team will lose and criminals will gain big time from the bets they have made.

Reprinted in

Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (1992), The Batman Chronicles (2005), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2015), Batman: The Golden Age (2016), Limited Collectors' Edition (1972), The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (1988), The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (1989), The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (1989), Stacked Deck: The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (1990)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).

Summaries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); each links to its article.