COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
The River Rogues
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
February, 1955
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Dick Sprang
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
COVER:
J. Winslow Mortimer
PRICE: $.10 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon;
Carter Nichols
PLOT:
Commissioner Gordon is disgraced when a newspaper article surfaces revealing his great-grandfather led a gang of bandits. Batman and Robin are sent back in time by Professor Nichols to learn the story of river boat captain John Gordon.
Batman and Robin get a job as entertainers aboard Gordon's showboat. At each stop the boat makes, a gang of bandits strike. Batman stops a train robbery attempt and recognizes Gordon as one of the bandits. Gordon is arrested, but further investigation reveals Gordon was impersonated. Batman discovers the real bandit leader, show director Baird Hawes. Gordon is cleared, and Batman returns to the present. The Caped Crusader is then able to locate proof of Gordon's innocence, restoring Commissioner Gordon's family name.
NOTE:
In this issue we get to meet Captain John Gordon, Commissioner Gordon's great grandfather
who is a river boat captain.
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TITLE:
The Seven Wonders of the Underworld
WRITER:
n/a
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Underworld chief Vince Varden gathers seven amazing inventions designed for criminal purposes. The last of these inventions is a gas that Varden believes will end Batman's career.
Varden's gang use the machines to rob Gotham City. Batman tries to stop their first crime, but the inventions allow the crooks to escape. Batman then meets the crooks at their next robbery and is exposed to the gas.
While trailing the crooks back to their hide-out, Batman's chest emblem and Robin's "R" fall off their costumes. Batman realizes that the gas must destroy silk, including their bat-ropes. When Batman attempts to use the bat-rope, it breaks. The crooks think Batman has fallen to his death, but Batman tricks them with a dummy. Finally, Batman and Robin apprehend the crooks and capture the crime inventions.
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TITLE:
Bruce Wayne's Aunt Agatha
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Stan Kaye
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Bruce Wayne's aunt Agatha comes to Gotham to stay with Bruce and Dick. She sees them in costume and suspects they are going to a masquerade. The Dynamic Duo then battles the Rotor-Robbers, but fail to capture the gang.
The next evening, Bruce and Dick go out again. Agatha again believes they are going to a masquerade. They are captured by the bandits. Agatha has followed them to the masquerade in a Joker costume. She rescues them and pulls off Bruce's cowl in front of the crooks. She still doesn't realize that Bruce is not just pretending to be Batman. She even convinces the crooks that Bruce is not the real Batman. Batman then defeats the crooks, and Agatha goes home.
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