COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
The Penguin's Apprentice
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
February/March, 1945
WRITER:
Don Cameron
ARTIST:
Jack Burnley
INKER:
Jerry Robinson
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
COVER:
Jack Burnley
PRICE: $.10 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Penguin
PLOT:
Penguin trains the son of one of his criminal friends in the fine points of crime. The boy doesn't want to be a criminal and fails. Penguin orders the boy to study his crime files, which the boy uses to write a book. Penguin decides to sell the book to the underworld, but no publisher will take it.
Penguin steals a truckload of paper, intending to publish the book himself. Batman and Robin are captured while trying to stop the robbery. While Penguin visits a counterfeiter to print the book, Batman and Robin escape. They track down the Penguin with the help of Penguin's apprentice. After the Penguin's capture, Batman arranges for the book to be published to illustrate that crime does not pay.
TITLE:
Adventures of Alfred - The Pearl of Peril
WRITER:
Don Cameron
ARTIST:
Jerry Robinson
INKER:
Jerry Robinson
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Alfred Beagle
PLOT:
Alfred enjoys a meal at a restaurant. Suddenly another patron finds a pearl in one of his oysters. The man auctions the pearl off as two other patrons bid on it. The winner leaves, but the loser pursues him. The man who found the pearl also leaves. Alfred follows him because he picked up the wrong check.
Outside, Alfred witnesses the auction loser holding up the winner. He stops the robbery and the man who found the pearl as well. When the police arrive, they credit Alfred with capturing the loser, who is a crook. The man who found the pearl also admits that the pearl was a fake. He is arrested, and Alfred gets the credit, despite the face that he had no idea the pearl was fake.
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TITLE:
Voyage into Villainy
WRITER:
Joe Samachson
ARTIST:
Jack Burnley
INKER:
Jerry Robinson
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Members of the Explorers' Club try to decipher clues left behind by the late explorer John Svenson. Mr. Challoner claims to have deciphered the clues that will lead to Svenson's fortune. However, he is murdered before finding it.
Batman hears a cry for help and finds Challoner's murdered body. He suspects one of the other explorers is the killer, so he leads the hunt for Svenson's clues. When the killer strikes again to kill Batman, the Caped Crusader exposes him as explorer Felix Landry.
Batman then finishes solving Svenson's puzzle, retrieving the fortune. Rather than keep the money, Batman gives it to charity.
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TITLE:
A Christmas Peril
WRITER:
Don Cameron
ARTIST:
Jerry Robinson
INKER:
Jerry Robinson
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Batman and Robin stop a gang of racketeers who have cornered the market on Christmas trees. The boss behind the scheme in Happy Hoggsby, who is backed by boy millionaire Scranton Loring.
Batman and Robin pay a visit to Loring's mansion, where they find that Scranton is a young miser. Batman and Robin take Scranton around town and show him how the racketeers have ruined the lives of innocent people. Scranton begins to see that he has mistreated people.
Meanwhile, his assistants, Gulliver and Eggers, have stolen Scranton's fortune. When Scranton visits Hoggsby, he learns about the betrayal. The crooks plan to eliminate Scranton, but Batman and Robin save him. Then Scranton joins Batman, Robin, and his uncle Timothy in delivering Christmas presents to the people hurt by the racketeers.
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