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 |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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 |