Issue Details

Issue	#26
Published	December 1944-January 1945
Cover Price	0.10
Pages	52
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Characters	Batman; Robin; Alfred Pennyworth.
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Jerry Robinson (verified by Robinson)
Inks	Jerry Robinson (verified by Robinson)
Letters	typeset

12 page Batman story "Twenty-Ton Robbery!"

Characters	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; V: The Cavalier [Mortimer Drake].
Synopsis	The Cavalier returns in disguise to acquire a new mob that he plans to use to rob the city blind, but the theft of a whale undos his plans.
Genre	superhero
Script	Don Cameron
Pencils	Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane)(verified by Sprang)
Inks	Dick Sprang (as Bob Kane)(verified by Sprang)
Letters	Pat Gordon?
Notes	Synopsis added by Craig Delich 12-12-07.
Reprinted	in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #258 (September-October 1974); in Läderlappen (Semic Press AB, 1976 series) #10/1976

4 page Alfred story "Recipe for Revenge"

Characters	Alfred Pennyworth; GS: Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson; V: Watson (I).
Genre	adventure
Script	Jack Schiff
Pencils	Jerry Robinson (verified by Robinson)
Inks	Jerry Robinson (verified by Robinson)
Letters	George Roussos (verified by Roussos)
Reprinted	In Batman Family (DC, 1975 series) #9 (January-February 1977); in Batman Album (K. G. Murray, 1976 series) #37

1 page Double Decker filler

Genre	humor
Script	Jack Farr
Pencils	Jack Farr
Inks	Jack Farr
Letters	Jack Farr

13 page Batman story "The Year 3000"

Characters	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; I & O: Batman of 3000 (Brane [Bruce Wayne XX]) and Robin of 3000 (Ricky); V: Fura (I, D; a Saturnian).
Genre	superhero
Script	Joseph Greene (credit by O'Hearn)
Pencils	Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Inks	Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Letters	Pat Gordon?
Reprinted	In Batman Family (DC, 1975 series) #3 (January-February 1976).

2 page text story "Night Rider"

Genre	adventure
Script	Tod Lowry (signed)
Letters	typeset

Half page Capt. Tootsie advertisement "Capt. Tootsie and the Toy Cannon"

Characters	Captain Tootsie
Genre	superhero
Pencils	C. C. Beck? Pete Costanza?
Inks	C. C. Beck? Pete Costanza?

11 page Batman story "Crime Comes to Lost Mesa"

Characters	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; V: Monk Bardo (I), Randy Roose (I), Mordu (I, D).
Genre	superhero
Script	Don Cameron
Pencils	Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Inks	Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Letters	George Roussos (verified by Roussos)