CATALOG RECORD

Batman #5

DC · Series began 1940 · Spring 1941

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Dates

Cover date: Spring 1941
On sale: April 16, 1941
Pages: 68

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Facsimile reprints exist

Batman 5 (Facsimile Edition) (2024). A facsimile reproduces this issue with a modern cover price and barcode; check before buying.

Creators

pencils: Bob Kane, Henry Boltinoff, Bill Carney, Cliff Young, Ray McGill, Fred Harmaninks: Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson, George Roussos, Henry Boltinoff, Bill Carney, Cliff Young, Ray McGill, Fred Harmanscript: Bill Finger, Henry Boltinoff, Clem Gordon, Ray McGillletters: George Roussos, Henry Boltinoff

Stories

The Riddle of the Missing Card! · 13 pages
With the help of some new partners in crime, the Joker sets up a gambling ship for the rich and wealthy, hoping to get them drunk so that they can be pumped for information about their valuable jewels.
Book of Enchantment · 13 pages
Batman and Robin are sent to Fairyland by an inventor's strange machine that allows people to actually enter into the scenario of a book they are reading in order to try to locate his daughter he had sent there a few days earlier and return her safely.
The Case of the Honest Crook! · 13 pages
Batman helps out a young convict released from prison who is having trouble getting an honest job to support his new, but sick wife. The Caped Crusaders then vow to help track down the rats who set him up to be arrested originally, but Robin is nearly beaten to death, and the Batman swears vengeance on those responsible.
Too Much Knowledge · 1.5 pages
Detective Burton solves the murder of Harold Stoms.
Crime Does Not Pay · 13 pages
Batman finds it very odd that a bank robber he is fighting with comes to the aid of another until he realizes that they are brothers. And he must rescue Linda Page from the clutches of one of the gangsters in order to save his brother from a life of crime.

Reprinted in

Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (1992), The Batman Chronicles (2005), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2015), Batman: The Golden Age (2016), Batman 5 (Facsimile Edition) (2024), World's Best Comics: Golden Age Sampler (2003), Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told (2005), The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years (2014)