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Batman #72

DC · Series began 1940 · August-September 1952

Dates

Cover date
August-September 1952
On sale
June 25, 1952
Pages
52

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Win Mortimer, Bob Kane, Lew Sayre Schwartz, Horace Elmo, Henry Boltinoff, Dick Sprang, Raymond Perry, Ray Thompson, Jim Mooneyinks: Win Mortimer, Charles Paris, Horace Elmo, Henry Boltinoff, Raymond Perry, Ray Thompson, Jim Mooneyletters: Ira Schnapp, Pat Gordon, Horace Elmo, Henry Boltinoffscript: Jack Schiff, David Vern, Horace Elmo, Henry Boltinoff, David Kahn

Stories

  • The Jungle Batman! · 12 pages

    After capturing the feared Sinister Eight, Commissioner Gordon asks the Dynamic Duo to deliver the crooks by radio-controlled ship to their prison at Satan's Island. The ship is torpedoed and sunk during a storm at sea by the Sinister Eight's minions, and all are washed ashore on an island, where Batman and Robin have to avoid capture by the villains before they can capture them.

  • The Legion of Faceless Men! · 12 pages

    Batman and Robin are asked to join The Maskers, a club whose members wear masks in their occupations. Soon after, a new series of crimes is committed by The Masked Bandit who wears a different occupational mask for each crime, and Batman and Robin must find out if the villain is one of the Maskers.

  • Changing Styles in Magic · 2 pages
  • The Death-Cheaters of Gotham City! · 12 pages

    Bruce Wayne becomes a member of the strange "Death Cheaters Club," but a wanted criminal, who fits the qualifications for membership, is denied the same...and vows vengeance against all the members!

Reprinted in

Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2015), Action Comics (1938), Superboy (1949), Batman (1950), All-American Men of War (1952), Our Fighting Forces (1954), The Adventures of Jerry Lewis (1957), Blackhawk (1957), Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (1958), Batman Annual (1961), DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals (2009)

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.