Issue Details

Issue	#47
Published	June-July 1948
Cover Price	0.1
Pages	52
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details - "The Origin of Batman"

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Bob Kane (verified by Schwartz)
Inks	Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Letters	Ira Schnapp (credit by O'Hearn/Desris)

10 page Batman story "Fashions In Crime!"

Characters	V: The Catwoman
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Bob Kane (Batman & Robin figures only); Lew Schwartz
Inks	Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Letters	Ira Schnapp (credit by O'Hearn/Desris)

12 page Batman story "The Chain Gang Crimes!"

Characters	V: The Whiskers Mob (I), Warden Beltt (I)
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Bob Kane (Batman & Robin figures only); Lew Schwartz
Inks	Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Letters	Ira Schnapp (credit by O'Hearn/Desris)

2 page text story "Winged Justice"

Script	Ted Rosen
Pencils	Raymond Perry
Inks	Raymond Perry
Letters	typeset

13 page Batman story "The Origin of the Batman"

Characters	O: Batman (retold in detail); GS: Thomas and Martha Wayne (D; in fb); V: Joe Chill (D; name revealed in this story; Thomas and Martha Wayne's murderer)
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Bob Kane (verified by Schwartz)
Inks	Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Letters	Ira Schnapp (credit by O'Hearn/Desris)
Reprinted	in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #198 (February 1968); in Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1976 series) #[nn]; in Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1988 series) #[nn] [1]; in Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #[nn] [1]; in Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, The (Warner Books, 1989 series) #[nn]; in Batman and Other DC Classics (DC, 1989 series) #1

Half page Daffy & Doodle filler

Pencils	Lit Win
Inks	Lit Win

1 page Little Pete filler

Script	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters	Henry Boltinoff