Character(s):
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Mel Lambert; Steven Crane; Paul Rogers; Alfred Stryker
First Line:
To many, the gathering darkness of night calms the troubled turmoil of the world.
Notes:
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Pages 8 and 17 have paid advertisements taking up the bottom third of the page.
Page 11 has a half-page house ad for Adventure Comics #380 (May 1969) at the bottom of the page.
This is a "modern" version of "The Case Of The Chemical Syndicate." An editorial note at the end of the story explains: "Every old-time BATMANIAC knows of BATMAN'S creation by teen-age BOB KANE! DC's current teen-rage, MIKE FRIEDRICH, updated this issue's yarn from the very first BATMAN story ever published (in DETECTIVE COMICS #27, May 1939)."
Notes:
This is not a reprint of the original story from Detective Comics #27 (May 1939). The story presented here as having been originally published in Detective Comics #27 is a redrawn (traced), re-lettered, and censored version.
• The knife jutting from the back of the murder victim (page 2, panel 2) has been removed.
• A word balloon where the killer confesses to the crime (page 6, panel 2 - "Sure... I did it! But you won't send me to the 'chair' for it! I'll -- ") has been deleted.