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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published Winter 1962-1963
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 84
Editing Jack Schiff
Notes This is the only issue of this series to exclusively feature the work of a single artist on interior stories, (Sheldon Moldoff). On Sale Date - November 8th 1962

Cover Details - "The Secret Adventures of Batman and Robin"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batwoman; The First Batman [Dr. Thomas Wayne]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Curt Swan; Win Mortimer; Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Stan Kaye; Sheldon Moldoff
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #235 (September 1956); from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #247 (September 1957); from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #99 (May 1956); from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #122 (March 1959)

10 page Batman & Robin story "The First Batman"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Lew Moxon (first appearance; villain; death); Joey Chill (villain)
Synopsis The discovery of an old Batman-type costume in Bruce Wayne's attic re-opens the Wayne murder case, and helps him realize that Joey Chill had only been HIRED to kill his parents....and the real man responsible was still alive and free.
Genre Superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #235 (September 1956)

8 page Batman & Robin story "Am I Really Batman?"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Professor Milo (villain)
Synopsis Batman wakes from a sound sleep to find himself in a mental ward, not realizing that a Professor Milo had given him a dose of amnesia gas that dulls the will to live.
Genre Superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks Charles Paris
Notes This is a different Professor Milo from the one depicted in story 9 of this issue, "The Man Who Ended Batman's Career". Both were created by Bill Finger (and possibly Sheldon Moldoff), both stories mention Napoleon and both appeared in the same month's comics (September 1957)!
Reprinted from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #112 (September 1957)

12 page Batman & Robin story "The Batwoman"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batwoman [Kathy Kane] (intro)
Synopsis Bruce Wayne is pleased that a newcomer, Kathy Kane, has taken such a liking to the Batman. However, when a mysterious new crimefighter appears on the scene, usurping much of Batman's glory, the Dynamic Duo steps in to halt her career before she gets seriously hurt.
Genre Superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks Charles Paris
Notes origin & 1st appear of Batwoman
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #233 (July 1956)

8 page Batman & Robin story "The Vanished Batman"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Pack Purdy (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis Gotham City is shocked to see Robin drive up to Police HQ one day in a Robinmobile, and refuses to comment on the disappearance of his long-time partner in crime-fighting.
Genre Superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks Charles Paris
Reprinted from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #101 (August 1956)

8 page Batman & Robin story "The Phantom of the Batcave"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Pardu (first appearance; villain); The Society of Magicians (first appearance)
Synopsis Batman is puzzled when a trophy of a case he just completed disappears and is replaced by another item....right in the confines of the Bat-Cave.
Genre Superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks Charles Paris
Reprinted from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #99 (May 1956)

8 page Batman & Robin story "Batman's College Days"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne] (origin details); Robin [Dick Grayson]; Joe Danton (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis Bruce Wayne has been invited on a 3-day reunion cruise with some of his old college athletic team chums. But joy turns to fear when their host not only discovers Batman's true identity, but threatens to kill each and every one of them with planted mines.
Genre Superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks Charles Paris
Reprinted from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #96 (December 1955)

8 page Batman & Robin story "The Marriage of Batman and Batwoman"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batwoman [Kathy Kane]
Synopsis Dick Grayson goes to sleep while Bruce is out on a date with Kathy, and dreams of the loss of their secret identities caused by Bruce and Kathy's marriage.
Genre Superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks Ray Burnley (verified by Jack Burnley)
Reprinted from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #122 (March 1959)

6 page Batman & Robin story "The Second Boy Wonder"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Gorilla Hardy (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis After battling Gorilla Hardy and his gang, the Dynamic Duo arrive back at the Bat-Cave, but Robin has a surprise for his caped counterpart: he is NOT Dick Grayson, but Fred Loyd, who assumed the role after Dick Grayson was injured.
Genre Superhero
Script France Herron
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks Charles Paris
Reprinted from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #105 (February 1957)

12 page Batman & Robin story "The Man Who Ended Batman's Career"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne, also as Starman]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Professor Milo (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis Professor Milo decides to end the career of the Caped Crusader by giving him a phobia: the fear of bats!
Genre Superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks Charles Paris
Notes This is a different Professor Milo from the one depicted in story 2 of this issue, "Am I Really Batman?". Both were created by Bill Finger (and possibly Sheldon Moldoff), both stories mention Napoleon and both appeared in the same month's comics (September 1957)!
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #247 (September 1957)

1 page Batman and Robin illustration

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batwoman [Kathy Kane]
Synopsis Circular panels depicting scenes from interior stories.
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff; Charles Paris
Reprinted Partial splash pages from interior stories: The Vanished Batman Am I Really Batman? Batman's College Days The Second Boy Wonder. Partial Cover from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #233 (July 1956) The Batwoman