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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published February-March 1944
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Characters Batman; Robin
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Sprang
Inks Dick Sprang
Letters typeset
Notes Art credits verified by Sprang.
Reprinted in Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (DC, 1992 series) #6 (2009)

12 page Batman story "The Streamlined Rustlers!"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Sheriff Colt; Mr. Kraft; Mr. Cotter; Mr. Brule (villain, introduction, death); Bat-Plane
Synopsis Batman and Robin head west to see if they can stem the tide of cattle rustling, which has been caused by war-time rationing, and is the source of black market beef.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Dick Sprang
Inks Dick Sprang
Letters George Roussos
Notes Art credits verified by Sprang and lettering credit verified by Roussos.
Reprinted in Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (DC, 1992 series) #6 (2009)

12 page Batman story "Blitzkrieg Bandits!"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Hannibal Boneparte Brown (introduction); Mr. Dodge; Chopper Gant (villain, introduction)
Synopsis The Caped Crusaders must stop a criminal mastermind who uses a genius in military science to actually plan crimes for gems and other loot, thinking the crook is writing a series of newspaper articles on him.
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron
Pencils Dick Sprang [as Bob Kane] (signed)
Inks Dick Sprang [as Bob Kane] (signed)
Letters George Roussos
Notes Art credits verified by Sprang and lettering credit verified by Roussos.
Reprinted in Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (DC, 1992 series) #6 (2009)

2 page Brother filler

Genre humor
Script Paul Fung
Pencils Paul Fung
Inks Paul Fung
Notes This filler is NOT found in the Archive.

11 page Batman story "His Lordship's Double!"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Mr. and Mrs. C.L.J. Carruthers; Lord David Hurley Burleigh (introduction); un-named criminal gang (villains)
Synopsis The Caped Crusaders have to outwit a criminal element which targets a Lord Burleigh, a man who has come to America to interest an American oil company in his discovery of a cheaper process for obtaining rubber from petroleum.
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils Dick Sprang [as Bob Kane] (signed)
Inks Dick Sprang [as Bob Kane] (signed)
Letters George Roussos
Notes Alfred has slimmed down by this story. Art credits verified by Sprang and lettering credit verified by Roussos.
Reprinted in Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (DC, 1992 series) #6 (2009)

2 page text story "Hero's Mission"

Genre adventure
Script George Brandon (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes This text story does NOT appear in the Archive.

1 page Jerry the Jitterbug filler

Characters Jerry the Jitterbug
Genre teen humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes This filler does NOT appear in the Archive.

13 page Batman story "The Three Eccentrics!"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Ebenezer Flint; Gladys Puffe; John White; The Penguin [Oscar Copplepot] (villain); Sam Chizzell (villain); Bat-Plane; Batmobile
Synopsis Batman must outwit the Penguin, who has invented a small motion picture camera with telescopic lenses, which is precise enough to see combinations to wall safes as they are being opened.
Genre superhero
Script Joseph Greene (credit by O'Hearn)
Pencils Ed Kressy [layouts?]; Dick Sprang [as Bob Kane] (signed)
Inks Dick Sprang [as Bob Kane] (signed)
Letters George Roussos
Notes Layout credit and revised inker credit verified by Sprang & added by Craig Delich (November, 2005). Inker credit formerly assigned to Ray Burnley. Writer credit verified by Martin O'Hearn and lettering credit verified by Roussos.
Reprinted in Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (DC, 1992 series) #6 (2009)