Dates
- Cover date
- October-November 1941
- On sale
- August 8, 1941
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Wanted: Practical Jokers! · 13 pages
The Joker organizes a new gang by advertising for practical jokers in the newspaper, and when they show up, they touch objects used in major crimes, thereby implicating themselves...and forcing them to work for the Crime Prince of Crime!
- Lucky Bump · 1 pages
Sam is denied entry into the Army due to his height, but while interrupting a bank robbery he takes a blow to the head. With the blow to the head, Sam sees an opportunity to get remeasured for Army service.
- The Trouble Trap! · 13 pages
Batman must battle a swami who has hypnotized individuals, made records of conversations that he had with them, then later demands blackmail money or the records will be made public. However, one of the mystic's clients wants the secret of Batman's identity, thus Linda Page is kidnapped.
- The North Woods Mystery · 13 pages
Nora Powell heads with Bruce Wayne to the big woods to help run a logging operation after her Uncle is murdered, but is puzzled when her partner wants her to sell out to their competition.
- Star Act · 1 pages
Phineas is carjacked and his nephew, Alfred, finds a way to get the attention of policeman to help capture the carjacker.
- The People vs. the Batman · 13 pages
Weasel Venner wants to make sure that a fellow criminal doesn't make public the fact that he is the head racketeer in Gotham City, so he arranges for someone to be set up for the murder of Horatio Delmar: that someone being Bruce Wayne!
Reprinted in
Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (1992), The Batman Chronicles (2005), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2015), Batman: The Golden Age (2016), The Best of DC (1979), Batman in the Forties (2004)