Issue | #7 |
Published | October-November 1941 |
Cover Price | 0.10 |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Notes | Not all fillers may be listed for this book. |
Characters | Batman; Robin. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Bob Kane (signed) |
Inks | Bob Kane (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | Not all fillers may be listed for this book. |
Reprinted | In Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (DC, 1992 series) #2 (1995). |
Characters | Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Duke Micheal; V: The Joker [aka Henry Verne]. |
Synopsis | The Joker organizes a new gang by advertising for practical jokers in the newspaper, and when they show up, they touch objects used in major crimes, thereby implicating themselves.....and forcing them to work for the Crime Prince of Crime! |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Bill Finger |
Pencils | Bob Kane (signed) |
Inks | Jerry Robinson (verified by Robinson), George Roussos (backgrounds & inks, verified by Roussos) |
Letters | George Roussos (verified by Roussos) |
Notes | Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 11-21-08. |
Reprinted | In Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (DC, 1992 series) #2 (1995). |
Genre | humor |
Script | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Pencils | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Inks | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Letters | Henry Boltinoff |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Eric Carter (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Linda Page; Henry Abbot [D]; Carl Dwyer; Villains: Granda the Mystic (I), Hindu Giants, Joe. |
Synopsis | Batman must battle a swami who has hynotized individuals, made records of conversations that he had with them, then later demands blackmail money or the records will be made public. However, one of the mystic's clients wants the secret of Batman's identity, thus Linda Page is kidnapped. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Bill Finger |
Pencils | Bob Kane (signed) |
Inks | Jerry Robinson (verified by Robinson), George Roussos (backgrounds & inks, verified by Roussos) |
Letters | George Roussos (verified by Roussos) |
Notes | Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 11-21-08. |
Reprinted | In Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (DC, 1992 series) #2 (1995). |
Characters | Chief Hot Foot |
Genre | humor |
Script | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Pencils | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Inks | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Letters | Henry Boltinoff |
Characters | Little Lewie |
Genre | humor |
Pencils | Paul Norris |
Inks | Paul Norris |
Characters | Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Nora Powell; Jack Clayton; Woody Joe [D]; V: Asher (I). |
Synopsis | Nora Powell heads with Bruce Wayne to the big woods to help run a logging operation, but is puzzled when her partner wants her to sell out to their competition. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Bill Finger |
Pencils | Bob Kane (signed) |
Inks | Jerry Robinson (verified by Robinson), George Roussos (backgrounds & inks, verified by Roussos) |
Letters | George Roussos (verified by Roussos) |
Notes | Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 11-21-08. |
Reprinted | In Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (DC, 1992 series) #2 (1995). |
Genre | gag |
Script | Ray McGill (signed) |
Pencils | Ray McGill (signed) |
Inks | Ray McGill (signed) |
Letters | Ray McGill? |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Wilton Weston (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Villains: Horatio Delmar, Weasel Venner (I, D for both), Freddie Hill. |
Synopsis | Weasel Venner wants to make sure that a fellow criminal doesn't make public the fact that he is the head racketeer in Gotham City, so he arranges for someone to be set up for the murder of Horatio Delmar: that someone being Bruce Wayne! |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Bill Finger |
Pencils | Bob Kane (signed) |
Inks | Jerry Robinson (verified by Robinson), George Roussos (backgrounds & inks, verified by Roussos) |
Letters | George Roussos (verified by Roussos) |
Notes | Batman finally receives official police sanction in this story. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 11-21-08. |
Reprinted | In Batman: The Dark Knight Archives (DC, 1992 series) #2 (1995); in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #242 (June 1972); in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #2. |