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Issue Details

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.

Cover Details

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).

13 page Batman story "Wanted: Practical Jokers!"

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).

1 page Funnies filler

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

1 page text story "Lucky Bump"

Genre adventure
Script Eric Carter (signed)
Letters typeset

13 page Batman story "The Trouble Trap"

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).

2 page Chief Hot Foot filler

Characters Chief Hot Foot
Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page Little Lewie filler

Characters Little Lewie
Genre humor
Pencils Paul Norris
Inks Paul Norris

13 page Batman story "The North Woods Mystery"

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).

2 page Rollin' Stone filler

Genre gag
Script Ray McGill (signed)
Pencils Ray McGill (signed)
Inks Ray McGill (signed)
Letters Ray McGill?

1 page text story "Star Act"

Genre adventure
Script Wilton Weston (signed)
Letters typeset

13 page Batman story "The People Vs. the Batman"

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.