Dates
- Cover date
- October-November 1945
- On sale
- August 7, 1945
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Punch and Judy! · 12 pages
Punch and Judy are using a carnival to bilk residents of Gotham City and the Caped Crusaders see to it that the grafters working the concessions and games are removed from the grounds. However, Punch and Judy decide to strike back by having Batman and Robin join the carnival to put on a death-defying aerial stunt...and then proceed to kill them "by accident".
- Alfred, Armchair Detective! · The Adventures of Alfred · 4 pages
Alfred is surprised to learn that what he read in a book about a case being solved by an "armchair detective", which he considers impossible, proves to be true on a chair he accidentally gets involved in...and he's tied to that armchair!
- Vanishing Village! · 11 pages
Batman and Robin are surprised to learn that an abandoned village in Florida, patterned after a Turkish village named Alhambra, has vanished, which is also the home of many a master criminal who has also disappeared.
- Close Shave · 2 pages
- Trade Marks of Crime! · 12 pages
Batman must solve a strange case in which someone is cleverly forging the burglary trademarks of various criminals, all of which pinpoint the jobs to the wrong criminal!
Publisher’s description
Alfred the detective!
Reprinted in
Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (1992), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2015), Detective Comics (1937), Limited Collectors' Edition (1972), The Best of DC (1979), Batman in the Forties (2004), Batman Allies: Alfred Pennyworth (2020)