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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