COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
December/January, 1941
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Bob Kane
INKER:
Jerry Robinson
EDITORS:
Mort Weisinger
COVER:
Fred Ray; Jerry Robinson
PRICE: $.10 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon
PLOT:
Batman sends gang boss, Mike Russo, to prison. Russo’s men capture the prison warden allowing the criminals to take over the prison. Then they begin a crime spree using the prison as a base.
Batman catches on to the scheme and goes undercover as a prisoner. He is eventually exposed and the criminals try sending him to the gas chamber. Robin replaces the poison with seltzer tablet, allowing Batman to survive his execution and put a stop to Russo’s operations.
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TITLE:
The Strange Case of Professor Radium
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Bob Kane
INKER:
Jerry Robinson
EDITORS:
Mort Weisinger
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon
PLOT:
Professor Henry Ross discovers a way to bring men back to life using radium. His fellow scientists do not believe him, so Henry experiments on himself. Ross does return to life, but he is radioactive and kills anyone he touches.
Ross puts on a protective suit and begins stealing volitell to create a cure for his condition. Batman and Robin tangle with him, but eventually the condition warps Ross’s mind, turning him insane. Ross is dubbed Professor Radium and continues to menace the city. Batman eventually confronts Radium, and a struggle ensues. Radium plunges to his death in a river, ending his restored life.
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TITLE:
The Superstition Murders
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Bob Kane
INKER:
Jerry Robinson
EDITORS:
Mort Weisinger
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon;
Joker
PLOT:
Bruce Wayne attends a party for the participants in a play about superstitious murders. During the party, the lead actor is poisoned. While Bruce investigates as Batman, two additional murders take place. Batman eventually draws out the killer, Johnny Glim, the play’s author. Glim wanted to ruin his own play so he could sell the rights to another company for a big profit.
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