Issue Details

Issue	#80
Published	December 1953-January 1954
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	44
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details - "The Machines of Menace"

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Win Mortimer (confirmed by Mortimer)
Inks	Win Mortimer (confirmed by Mortimer)

9 page Batman story "The Joker's Movie Crimes!"

Characters	V: The Joker
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger?
Pencils	Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Inks	Charles Paris (verified by Paris)

Half page Quick Quiz activity

Genre	superhero
Script	H. T. Elmo (signed)
Pencils	H. T. Elmo (signed)
Inks	H. T. Elmo (signed)

1 page Binky public service announcement "Know Your Community!"

Script	Jack Schiff
Pencils	Win Mortimer
Inks	Win Mortimer
Letters	Ira Schnapp

9 page Batman story "Dick Grayson's Nightmare!"

Characters	V: Doc, Blinky, and Moose (I)
Pencils	Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Inks	Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Notes	actually a Robin story; Batman makes only a token appearance

1 page Casey the Cop filler

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

2 page filler "The Deadly Dingo"

Pencils	Nick Cardy
Inks	Nick Cardy
Notes	Art identification from Gene Reed, July 2009.
Reprinted	in Blackhawk (DC, 1957 series) #138

2 page text story "Calling All Con Men!"

Script	Jack Miller
Letters	typeset

10 page Batman story "The Machines of Menace!"

Characters	V: Nero Thompson, Sparky Watts (named after the Boody Rogers comic character), Ned Herzo (I for all)
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Bob Kane (Batman & Robin figures only); Lew Schwartz
Inks	Charles Paris (verified by Paris)