Dates
- Cover date
- December 1941-January 1942
- On sale
- October 7, 1941
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make · 13 pages
From prison, Big Mike Russo is able to have his gang kidnap the warden, replace him and the guards with a look alike, then use the prison as a base of operations to commit crimes while providing alibis to those committing them! Batman figures that the only way to uncover this scenario is to get put in prison himself, a move that almost costs him his life in the gas chamber!
- Rescue Mission · 1 pages
Bob Crane is sent on a search and rescue mission to find Dr. Scott and his party.
- The Strange Case of Professor Radium! · 13 pages
A scientist finds a way to use radium to bring the dead back to life, and he uses himself as a guinea pig. Although the experiments are successful, the Professor pays dearly for his discovery, for, in the end, as Batman says, it has created a Frankenstein monster when it was only meant for good.
- The Superstition Murders! · 13 pages
The cast of a stage production decides to have a "superstition" party, intentionally carrying out every well-known superstition they can think of. But when one of them is killed, Batman and Robin enter the fray to single out the perpetrator of the deed.
- Pokey Beezer · 4 pages
- Action Stuff · 1 pages
- The Cross Country Crimes! · 13 pages
The Caped Crusaders are invited to Washington D.C. to meet with the head of the FBI, but the Joker shows up and shoots the G-Man. Then he heads out cross country to commit crimes, challenging the Batman to catch up with him.
Publisher’s description
In this exciting issue, Batman and Robin fight back against a prison break and battle the twisted mutant might of Dr. Radium! Plus, The Joker in "The Cross Country Times"!
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), Batman: The War Years 1939-1945 (2015), The Joker: His Greatest Jokes (2019)