COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
The Four Fates
COVER DATE:
February/March, 1942
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Bob Kane
INKER:
Jerry Robinson
EDITORS:
Mort Weisinger
COVER:
Jack Burnley
PRICE: $.10 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon
COVER ART:
PLOT:
Four gangsters steal a valuable ruby from the mystic Jaffeer. Jaffeer puts the curse of the four fates upon them, predicting the circumstances of their deaths. Then they kill Jaffeer. Batman and Robin hunt down the crooks and each meets their fate in accidents which confirm Jaffeer’s predictions.
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TITLE:
The White Whale
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Bob Kane
INKER:
Jerry Robinson
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
A giant white whale endangers shipping and threatens to ruin the Seven Seas Insurance Company. Captain Burly, a sea captain, offers to hunt down the whale, but crewmen are afraid. Burly kidnaps men from the dock, including a disguised Bruce Wayne, to use for his crew.
Aboard ship, Burly mistreats his men, so Batman challenges him. When the whale does attack, the crew mutinies forcing the captain, Batman, and Robin into a small boat to face the monster. The whale is really a submarine controlled by the insurance company secretary and being used to committ insurance fraud. The sub is sunk by the Coast Guard; only Batman and Robin survive.
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TITLE:
The Case of the Lucky Law-Breakers
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Bob Kane
INKER:
Jerry Robinson
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon;
Joker
PLOT:
The Joker escapes jail and begins a spree of bank robberies. His gang, a group of recently released prisoners, receive the money in prize winnings from reputable sources because Joker has threatened the organizers. Batman and Robin plan a trap for Joker, but are captured themselves. They escape a deathtrap and stop the gang, but Joker gets away.
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