JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Reprints of the Golden Age Batman
Detective Comics
By Aaron Severson
Reference the Creator Credit Abbreviations
Reprints from Detective Comics
Lists of Reprints:
All series and books listed herein were published by DC Comics unless otherwise noted.
DETECTIVE COMICS #27, May 1939
"The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" (6 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane
- Detective Comics #387 (5/69)
- Batman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, 1971)
- Famous First Edition #C-28 (1974)
- A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics (Smithsonian Press, 1982)
- Oreo Cookie giveaway (1984)
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Detective Comics #627 (3/91)
- Millennium Edition: Detective Comics #27 (2/00)
- Batman in the Forties (2004)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 1 (2005)
- Batman: Detective Comics #27 Free Comic Book Day edition (2014)
- Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years (2014)
DETECTIVE COMICS #28, June 1939
["Frenchy Blake's Jewel Gang"] (6 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 1 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #29, July 1939
"The Batman Meets Dr. Death" (10 pages)
Gardner Fox/Bob Kane
- Batman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, 1971)
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Masterpiece Edition: The Caped Crusader's Golden Age (2000)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 1 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #30, August 1939
["The Return of Dr. Death"] (10 pages)
Gardner Fox/Bob Kane/Sheldon Moldoff
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 1 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #31, September 1939
["Batman vs. the Vampire"] (10 pages)
Gardner Fox/Bob Kane/Sheldon Moldoff
- 100-Page Super-Spectacular #DC-14 (2/73)
- The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (1988)
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 1 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #32, October 1939
["Batman vs. the Vampire (Part Two)"] (10 pages)
Gardner Fox/Bob Kane/Sheldon Moldoff
- 100-Page Super-Spectacular #DC-14 (2/73)
- The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (1988)
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 1 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #33, November 1939
"The Legend of the Batman – Who He is and How He Came to
Be" (2 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Sheldon Moldoff
- Batman #1 (Spring 1940)
- The Great Comic Book Heroes, Jules Feiffer (Dial Press, 1965)
- Batman (Signet, 1966)
- Batman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, 1971)
- Secret Origins #1 (2-3/73)
- Famous First Edition #F-5 (12/74-1/75)
- Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (Warner Books, 1976)
- Crawford's Encyclopedia of Comic Books (Jonathan David Publishers, 1979)
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- The Dark Knight Archives vol. 1 (1992)
- Secret Origins #1 replica edition (1998)
- Batman: The Complete History, Les Daniels (Chronicle Books, 1999)
- Batman Masterpiece Edition: The Caped Crusader's Golden Age (2000)
- Batman in the Forties (2004)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 1 (2005)
- The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told 2nd ed. (2005)
- Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years (2014)
"The Batman Wars Against the Dirigible of Doom" (12 pages)
Gardner Fox/Bob Kane/Sheldon Moldoff
- The Dark Knight Archives vol. 1 (1992)
- Batman Chronicles (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #34, December 1939
["Peril in Paris"] (10 pages)
Gardner Fox/Bob Kane/Sheldon Moldoff
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 1 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #35, January 1940
["The Case of the Ruby Idol"] (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Sheldon Moldoff
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 1 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #36, February 1940
["Professor Hugo Strange"] (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 1 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #37, March 1940
["The Screaming House"] (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson
- Batman #237 (12/71)
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 1 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #38, April 1940
"Robin the Boy Wonder" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson
- Batman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, 1971)
- Secret Origins vol. 1 #7 (10-11/74)
- Oreo Cookie giveaway (1984)
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Millennium Edition: Detective Comics #27 (4/00)
- Batman in the Forties (2004)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 1 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #39, May 1940
"The Horde of the Green Dragon" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 2 (2006)
DETECTIVE COMICS #40, June 1940
["Clayface"] (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson
- Batman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, 1971)
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 2 (2006)
DETECTIVE COMICS #41, July 1940
["The Masked Menace of the Boys School"] (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 2 (2006)
DETECTIVE COMICS #42, August 1940
"The Case of the Prophetic Pictures" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson
- Detective Comics #441 (6-7/74)
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 2 (2006)
DETECTIVE COMICS #43, September 1940
"The Case of the City of Terror" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 2 (2006)
DETECTIVE COMICS #44, October 1940
"The Land Behind the Light" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 2 (2006)
DETECTIVE COMICS #45, November 1940
"The Case of the Laughing Death" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 2 (2006)
DETECTIVE COMICS #46, December 1940
["Professor Hugo Strange's Fear Dust"] (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 3 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #47, January 1941
["Money Can't Buy Happiness"] (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 3 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #48, February 1941
"The Secret Cavern" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 3 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #49, March 1941
"Clayface Walks Again" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman in the Forties (2004)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 3 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #50, April 1941
"The Case of the Three Devils" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 1 (1990)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 3 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #51, May 1941
"The Case of the Mystery Carnival" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 4 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #52, June 1941
"The Secret of the Jade Box" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 4 (2007)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 4 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #53, July 1941
["Viola Vane"] (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 4 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #54, August 1941
"Hook Morgan and His River Pirates" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 4 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #55, September 1941
"The Brain Burgler" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 4 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #56, October 1941
"The Stone Idol" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 4 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #57, November 1941
"Twenty-Four Hours to Live" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 5 (2008)
DETECTIVE COMICS #58, December 1941
["The Penguin"] (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told vol. 2 (1992)
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 5 (2008)
DETECTIVE COMICS #59, January 1942
"The King of the Jungle" (13 pages)
Joseph Greene/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 5 (2008)
DETECTIVE COMICS #60, February 1942
"Case of the Costume-Clad Killers" (13 pages)
Jack Schiff/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 5 (2008)
DETECTIVE COMICS #61, March 1942
"The Three Racketeers" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman #258 (9-10/74)
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 5 (2008)
DETECTIVE COMICS #62, April 1942
"Laugh, Town, Laugh" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 6 (2008)
DETECTIVE COMICS #63, May 1942
"A Gentlemen in Gotham" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 6 (2008)
DETECTIVE COMICS #64, June 1942
"The Joker Walks the Last Mile" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 6 (2008)
- The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years (2014)
DETECTIVE COMICS #65, July 1942
"The Cop Who Hated the Batman" (13 pages)
Joseph Greene/Jack Burnley/George Roussos/Ray Burnley
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 6 (2008)
DETECTIVE COMICS #66, August 1942
"The Crimes of Two-Face" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- 100-Page Super-Spectacular #DC-20 (9/73)
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman: Featuring Two-Face and the Riddler (1995)
- Batman vs. Two-Face (2008)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 7 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #67, September 1942
"Crime's Early Bird" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 7 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #68, October 1942
"The Man Who Led a Double Life" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- 100-Page Super-Spectacular #DC-20 (9/73)
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman: Featuring Two-Face and the Riddler (1995)
- Batman vs. Two-Face (2008)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 7 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #69, November 1942
"The Harlequin's Hoax" (13 pages)
Joseph Greene/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 7 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #70, December 1942
"The Man Who Could Read Minds" (13 pages)
Don Cameron/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 2 (1991)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 7 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #71, January 1943
"Crime A Day" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 8 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #72, February 1943
"License for Larceny" (13 pages)
Joe Samachson/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 8 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #73, March 1943
"The Scarecrow Returns" (13 pages)
Don Cameron/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 8 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #74, April 1943
"Tweedledum and Tweedledee" (13 pages)
Don Cameron/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- World's Finest Comics #209 (2/72)
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 8 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #75, May 1943
"The Robber Baron" (13 pages)
Don Cameron/Jack Burnley/George Roussos
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 9 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #76, June 1943
"Slay 'Em With Flowers" (13 pages)
Horace Gold/Jerry Robinson
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 9 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #77, July 1943
"The Crime Clinic" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/George Roussos
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman Chronicles Vol. 9 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #78, August 1943
"The Bond Wagon" (13 pages)
Joseph Greene/Jack Burnley/George Roussos
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 10 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #79, September 1943
"Destiny's Auction" (12 pages)
Don Cameron/Jerry Robinson
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 10 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #80, October 1943
"The End of Two-Face" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane/Jerry Robinson/George Roussos
- 100-Page Super-Spectacular #DC-20 (9/73)
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman in the Forties (2004)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 10 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #81, November 1943
"The Cavalier of Crime" (12 pages)
Don Cameron/Bob Kane/George Roussos
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman vs. Two-Face (2008)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 10 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #82, December 1943
"Quarterback of Crime" (12 pages)
Don Cameron/Bob Kane/George Roussos
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 11 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #83, January 1944
"Accidentally on Purpose" (12 pages)
Don Cameron/Jack Burnley/George Roussos
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 11 (2012)
- Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years (2014)
DETECTIVE COMICS #84, February 1944
"Artists in Villainy" (13 pages)
Mort Weisinger/Dick Sprang/Ed Kressy
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 11 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #85, March 1944
"The Joker's Double" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang/Ed Kressy
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
- Batman Chronicles vol. 11 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #86, April 1944
"Danger Strikes Three" (12 pages)
Don Cameron/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives Vol. 3 (1994)
DETECTIVE COMICS #87, May 1944
"The Man of a Thousand Umbrellas" (13 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #88, June 1944
"The Merchants of Misery!" (13 pages)
Joseph Greene/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #89, July 1944
"Laboratory Loot!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #90, August 1944
"Crime Between the Acts!" (13 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #91, September 1944
"The Case of the Practical Joker" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #92, October 1944
"Crime's Manhunt" (13 pages)
Joseph Greene/Dick Sprang
- Batman #261 (3-4/75)
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #93, November 1944
"One Night of Crime!" (13 pages)
?/Dick Sprang/Ed Kressy
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #94, December 1944
"No One Must Know!" (13 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #95, January 1945
["The Blaze"] (13 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #96, February 1945
"Alfred, Private Detective!" (13 pages)
Don Cameron/Dick Sprang/George Roussos
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #97, March 1945
"The Secret of the Switch!" (13 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #98, April 1945
"The King of the Hoboes!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #99, May 1945
"The Temporary Murders!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #100, June 1945
"The Crow's Nest Mystery!" (12 pages)
?/Jack Burnley/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #101, July 1945
"The Tyrannical Twins!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #102, August 1945
"The House That Was Held for Ransom!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives vol. 4 (1998)
DETECTIVE COMICS #103, September 1945
"Trouble, Incorporated!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Jack Burnley/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #104, October 1945
"The Battle of the Billboards!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #105, November 1945
"The Batman Goes Broke!" (13 pages)
Don Cameron/Win Mortimer
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #106, December 1945
"The Phantom of the Library!" (12 pages)
?/Ray Burnley?
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #107, January 1946
"The Mountain of the Moon!" (12 pages)
Don Cameron/Win Mortimer
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #108, February 1946
"The Goat of Gotham City!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #109, March 1946
"The House That Jokes Built!" (12 pages)
?/Win Mortimer
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #110, April 1946
"Batman and Robin in Scotland Yard!" (12 pages)
Don Cameron/Win Mortimer
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #111, May 1946
"Coaltown, U.S.A." (12 pages)
?/Win Mortimer
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #112, June 1946
"The Case Without a Crime" (12 pages)
Alvin Schwartz/Win Mortimer
- Batman #260 (1-2/75)
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #113, July 1946
"Crime on the Half-Shell!" (12 pages)
Alvin Schwartz/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #114, August 1946
"Acrostic of Crime!" (12 pages)
?/Win Mortimer/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #115, September 1946
"The Man Who Lived in a Glass House!" (12 pages)
?/Win Mortimer
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #116, October 1946
"The Rescue of Robin Hood!" (12 pages)
Don Cameron/Win Mortimer
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #117, November 1946
"Steeplejack's Showdown!" (12 pages)
?/Ray Burnley
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #118, December 1946
"The Royal Flush Crimes!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang/Howard Sherman
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #119, January 1947
"The Case of the Famous Foes!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang/Howard Sherman
- Batman Archives Vol. 5 (2001)
DETECTIVE COMICS #120, February 1947
"Fowl Play!" (12 pages)
?/?/?
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #121, March 1947
"Commissioner Gordon Walks a Beat!" (12 pages)
?/Howard Sherman
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #122, April 1947
"The Black Cat Crimes" (12 pages)
?/Bob Kane (Lew Sayre Schwartz?)/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #123, May 1947
"The Dawn Patrol Crimes" (12 pages)
?/Bob Kane (Lew Sayre Schwartz?)/Ray Burnley
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #124, June 1947
"The Crime Parade" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Bob Kane (Lew Sayre Schwartz?)/George Roussos
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #125, July 1947
"The Citadel of Crime!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #126, August 1947
"Case of the Silent Songbirds" (12 pages)
?/Jim Mooney
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #127, September 1947
"Pygmies in Giantland!" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #128, October 1947
"Crime in Reverse!" (12 pages)
?/Bob Kane (Lew Sayre Schwartz?)/Ray Burnley
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #129, November 1947
"The Isle of Yesterday" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Jack Burnley/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #130, December 1947
"The Box" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Bob Kane (Lew Sayre Schwartz?)/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #131, January 1948
"The Underworld Surgeon" (12 pages)
Don Cameron/Bob Kane (Lew Sayre Schwartz?)/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #132, February 1948
"The Human Key" (12 pages)
?/Jim Mooney/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #133, March 1948
"The Man Who Could See the Future!" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Bob Kane (Lew Sayre Schwartz)/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #134, April 1948
"The Umbrellas of Crime!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Jim Mooney/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #135, May 1948
"The True Story of Frankenstein!" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Bob Kane (Lew Sayre Schwartz)/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 6 (2005)
DETECTIVE COMICS #136, June 1948
"The Dead Man's Chest!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #137, July 1948
"The Rebus Crimes!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #138, August 1948
"The Invisible Crimes!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #139, September 1948
"The Crimes of Jade!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #140, October 1948
"The Riddler" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang
- Batman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, 1971)
- Batman: Featuring Two-Face and the Riddler (1995)
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #141, November 1948
"The Gallery of Public Heroes!" (12 pages)
?/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #142, December 1948
"Crime's Puzzle Contest!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #143, January 1949
"The Pied Piper of Peril!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Jim Mooney/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #144, February 1949
"Kay Kyser's Mytery Broadcast!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #145, March 1949
"Three's a Crime!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #146, April 1949
"Robin, the Boy Failure!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #147, May 1949
"Tiger Shark!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #148, June 1949
"The Experiment of Professor Zero" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman #182 (7-8/66)
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #149, July 1949
"The Sound-Effect Crimes!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #150, August 1949
"The Ghost of Gotham City!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #151, September 1949
"I.O.U. My Life!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #152, October 1949
"The Goblin of Gotham City!" (12 pages)
?/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #153, November 1949
"The Flying Batman!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #154, December 1949
"The Underground Railroad of Crime!" (12 pages)
?/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 7 (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #155, January 1950
"Bruce Wayne, Private Detective!" (12 pages)
?/Bob Kane/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #156, February 1950
"The Batmobile of 1950" (12 pages)
Joe Samachson/Dick Sprang/Stan Kaye
- 100-Page Super-Spectacular #DC-14 (2/73)
- Batman in the Fifties (2002)
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #157, March 1950
"The Race of the Century" (12 pages)
?/Bob Kane/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #158, April 1950
"The 1,001 Trophies of Batman" (12 pages)
Bill Finger?/Jim Mooney
- Batman #256 (5-6/74)
- Batman: Secrets of the Batcave (2007)
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #159, May 1950
"Bruce Wayne -- You Are Batman!" (12 pages)
?/Bob Kane/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #160, June 1950
"The Globe-Trotter of Crime!" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #161, July 1950
"The Men who Died on Time!" (12 pages)
?/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #162, August 1950
"The Law of the Iron Road!" (12 pages)
?/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #163, September 1950
"The Men who Feared Metal!" (12 pages)
?/Jim Mooney/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #164, October 1950
"Untold Tales of the Bat-Signal" (12 pages)
Bill Finger?/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #1 (1961)
- Batman Annual #1 replica edition (1998)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 1 (2009)
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #165, November 1950
"The Strange Costumes of Batman" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #1 (1961)
- Batman #259 (11-12/74)
- Batman Annual #1 replica edition (1998)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 1 (2009)
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #166, December 1950
"The Man with a Million Faces" (12 pages)
/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #167, January 1951
"Bodyguards to Cleopatra!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #168, February 1951
"The Man Behind the Red Hood" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/George Roussos
- Batman #213, July 1969
- Batman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, 1971)
- Limited Collector's Edition #C-39 (10-11/75)
- The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (1988)
- Stacked Deck: The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told Expanded Edition (1990)
- Batman in the Fifties (2002)
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
- The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years (2014)
DETECTIVE COMICS #169, March 1951
"Batman -- Boss of the Big House!" (12 pages)
?/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #170, April 1951
"The Flying Dutchman II!" (12 pages)
?/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #171, May 1951
"Menace of the Giant Birds" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Archives Vol. 8 (2012)
DETECTIVE COMICS #179, January 1952
"Mayor Bruce Wayne" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman #193 (7-8/67)
DETECTIVE COMICS #180, February 1952
"The Joker's Millions" (12 pages)
Walter Gibson?/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman vs. the Joker (Signet, 1966)
- Batman: The Complete History, Les Daniels (Chronicle Books, 1999)
- The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years (2014)
DETECTIVE COMICS #184, February 1952
"The Human Firefly" (12 pages)
France E. Herron/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #3 (Summer 1962)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 1 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #185, July 1952
"The Secret of Batman's Utility Belt" (12 pages)
David Vern/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman #203 (7/68)
- Batman in the Fifties (2002)
DETECTIVE COMICS #186, August 1952
"The Flying Batcave" (12 pages)
?/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman #203 (7/68)
DETECTIVE COMICS #187, September 1952
"The Double Crimes of Two-Face!" (12 pages)
Don Cameron/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman vs. Two-Face (2008)
DETECTIVE COMICS #190, December 1952
"How to Be the Batman" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #1 (1961)
- Batman Annual #1 replica edition (1998)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 1 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #192, February 1953
"The Phantom Eye of Gotham City" (12 pages)
?/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman #187 (12/66-1/67)
DETECTIVE COMICS #193, March 1953
"The Joker's Journal" (12 pages)
?/Lew Sayre Schwartz/Charles Paris
- Batman vs. the Joker (Signet, 1966)
DETECTIVE COMICS #196, June 1953
"City Without Guns" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman #223 (7/70)
DETECTIVE COMICS #197, July 1953
"The League Against Batman" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman #218 (1-2/70)
DETECTIVE COMICS #198, August 1953
"The Lord of Batmanor" (12 pages)
Leigh Brackett and Edmond Hamilton/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris?
- Batman Annual #2 (1961)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 1 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #199, September 1953
"The Invisible Batman" (12 pages)
Bill Woolfolk/Sheldon Moldoff?/Stan Kaye
- 80 Page Giant #5 (12/64)
DETECTIVE COMICS #203, January 1954
"The Crimes of the Catwoman" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- 80 Page Giant #5 (12/64)
- The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told vol. 2 (1992)
- Catwoman: Nine Lives of a Feline Fatale (2004)
DETECTIVE COMICS #205, March 1954
"The Origin of the Bat-Cave" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #1, 1961
- Batman From the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, 1971)
- Batman Annual #1 replica edition (1998)
- Batman: Secrets of the Batcave (2007)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 1 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #207, May 1954
"Batman the Magician" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #2 (1961)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 1 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #209, July 1954
"The Man Who Shadowed Batman" (12 pages)
France E. Herron/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- 80 Page Giant #5 (12/64)
DETECTIVE COMICS #211, September 1954
"The Jungle Cat-Queen" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman #198 (1/68)
- The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (1988)
- Catwoman: The Life and Times of a Feline Fatale (2004)
- Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years (2014)
DETECTIVE COMICS #213, November 1954
"The Mysterious Mirror-Man" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #3 (Summer 1962)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 1 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #215, January 1955
"The Batmen of All Nations" (10 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Sheldon Moldoff
- World's Finest Comics #180 (11/68)
- Batman: The Black Casebook (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #216, February 1955
"The Batman of Tomorrow" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman #187 (12/66-1/67)
- Batman in the Fifties (2002)
- Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years (2014)
DETECTIVE COMICS #217, March 1955
"The Mental Giant of Gotham City" (10 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #3 (Summer 1962)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 1 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #218, April 1955
"Batman Junior and Robin Senior" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman #182 (7-8/66)
DETECTIVE COMICS #221, July 1955
"1,001 Escapes of Batman and Robin" (12 pages)
?/Sheldon Moldoff/Stan Kaye?
- Batman Annual #1 (1961)
- Batman Annual #1 replica edition (1998)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 1 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #222, August 1955
"The Great Batman Swindle" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman #259 (11-12/74)
DETECTIVE COMICS #225, November 1955
"If I Were Batman" (8 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- DC Silver Age Classics: Detective Comics #225, 1992
- Millennium Edition: Detective Comics #225 (1/01)
DETECTIVE COMICS #226, December 1955
"When Batman Was Robin" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #2 (1961)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 1 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #229, March 1956
"The 10,000 Secrets of Batman" (12 pages)
?/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #1, 1961
- Batman Annual #1 replica edition (1998)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 1 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #230, April 1956
"The Mad Hatter of Gotham City!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #3 (Summer 1962)
- DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #15 (11/81)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 1 (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #231, May 1956
"Batman, Junior!" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman #185 (10/66)
DETECTIVE COMICS #233, July 1956
"The Batwoman!" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #4 (Winter 1963)
- Batman #208 (2/69)
- Batman Family #3 (1-2/76)
- The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (1988)
- Batman in the Fifties (2002)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 2 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #234, August 1956
"Batman and Robin's Greatest Mystery!" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman #218 (2/70)
DETECTIVE COMICS #235, September 1956
"The First Batman!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman #255 (3-4/74)
- Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest #2 (11/79)
- The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (1988)
- Batman: Secrets of the Batcave (2007)
- Batman: The Black Casebook (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #238, December 1956
"The Doors That Hid Disaster!" (12 pages)
Dave Wood/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman #228 (2/71)
DETECTIVE COMICS #241, March 1957
"The Rainbow Batman!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff
- Batman #182 (8/66)
DETECTIVE COMICS #243, May 1957
"Batman the Giant!" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #5 (Summer 1963)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 2 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #244, June 1957
"The 100 Batarangs of Batman!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman #203 (8/68)
- Batman in the Fifties (2002)
- Batman: Secrets of the Batcave (2007)
DETECTIVE COMICS #245, July 1957
"The Dynamic Trio!" (12 pages)
Edmond Hamilton/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #7 (Summer 1964)
- Batman Family #2 (11-12/75)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 2 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #246, August 1957
"Murder at Mystery Castle!" (12 pages)
Leigh Brackett/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #6 (Winter 1964)
- Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest #2 (11-12/79)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 2 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #247, September 1957
"The Man Who Ended Batman's Career!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #4 (Winter 1963)
- Batman: The Black Casebook (2009)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 2 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #248, October 1957
"Around the World in 8 Days!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman #223 (8/70)
DETECTIVE COMICS #249, November 1957
"The Crime of Bruce Wayne!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman #233 (8/71)
DETECTIVE COMICS #252, February 1958
"The Creature from the Green Lagoon" (12 pages)
Dave Wood/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #6 (Winter 1964)
- Batman in the Fifties (2002)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 2 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #253, March 1958
"The Fox, the Shark, and the Vulture!" (12 pages)
Dave Wood/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman #176 (12/65)
DETECTIVE COMICS #255, May 1958
"Death in Dinosaur Hall" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #6 (Winter 1963)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 2 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #256, June 1958
"The Captive Planet!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- 80 Page Giant #12 (7/65)
DETECTIVE COMICS #259, September 1958
"The Challenge of the Calendar Man" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman #176 (12/65)
DETECTIVE COMICS #261, November 1958
"The Amazing Dr. Double X" (12 pages)
Dave Wood/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Family #7 (9-10/76)
DETECTIVE COMICS #264, February 1959
"Peril at Playland Isle" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Dick Sprang/Charles Paris
- Batman #187 (12/66)
DETECTIVE COMICS #265, March 1959
"Batman's First Case" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman #187 (12/66)
DETECTIVE COMICS #267, May 1959
"Batman Meets Bat-Mite!" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #7 (Summer 1964)
- Batman in the Fifties (2002)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 2 (2010)
- Batman: The Black Casebook (2009)
DETECTIVE COMICS #268, June 1959
"The Power That Doomed Batman" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #5 (Summer 1963)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 2 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #275, January 1960
"The Zebra Batman" (12 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman Annual #5 (Summer 1963)
- DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals vol. 2 (2010)
DETECTIVE COMICS #294, August 1961
"The Villain of 100 Elements" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff
- Batman #182 (8/66)
DETECTIVE COMICS #298, December 1961
"The Challenge of Clay-Face" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman #213 (8/69)
- Batman in the Sixties (1999)
DETECTIVE COMICS #317, July 1963
"The Secrets of the Flying Bat-Cave" (13 pages)
Bill Finger/Sheldon Moldoff/Charles Paris
- Batman #203 (8/68)
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