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Issue: The Batman Chronicles #3
Publication Date: July 2007
 
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Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 05/16/2007
Volume: 3
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9781401213473
UPC/EAN: 978140121347351499
Price: $17.99 CAD
$14.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 23 (14 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Reprints the Batman stories from Detective Comics #46-50, Batman #4-5, and World's Best Comics #1.

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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
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Binding: Squarebound Trade Paperback
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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Professor Strange's Fear Dust

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Professor Hugo Strange (villain); Carstairs (villain, racketeer); Carstair's gang (villains)
The Batman has to stop Professor Hugo Strange's evil plan to spray his "fear dust" all over America so that men in public office will be afraid of him, and that he can become Dictator of America!
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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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Money Can't Buy Happiness

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Harvey Midas (Bruce's banker); Mrs. Midas; Roger Midas (Harvey's son, musician); Diane Midas (Harvey's daughter); Jupkins (the Midas butler); Johnny Brown (a clerk, Diane's sweetheart); Danny Moore (newsboy); Count Alexis (villain, Diane's wife)
Bruce Wayne's lawyer and wife are making a real mess out of the lives of their children, so the Batman decides to do something about it. He discovers that Midas' daughter's new husband is linked to crooks wanting to steal the family jewels.
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The Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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The Case of the Joker's Crime Circus!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; C. R. Darcey; Mr. Morganbilt; The Joker (villain); the Crime Circus (villains)
The Joker organizes a crime circus that performs at the homes of wealthy patrons to size up the joint, then later robs them.
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Blackbeard's Crew and the Yacht Society

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Mr. Horn; Stanley (Horn's Secretary); Elaine; Mr. Cowden; Henry; un-named Yacht Captain (death); Blackbeard [Thatch] (villain, introduction)
When an exclusive yacht is taken over by a band of pirates led by the immortal Blackbeard himself, the Batman and Robin come aboard to swab the decks with them.
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Public Enemy #1

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Jimmy "Red" McCoy (villain, introduction, death), "Big" Costello (villain, introduction, death)
Batman must contend with Jimmy McCoy, a young bully who claws his way up through the ranks until he becomes the overlord of crime, but ends up being deserted by his mob, hunted by the Police and killed in a gutter.
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Victory for the Dynamic Duo

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Batman [Bruce Wayne] [also as Stockton]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Tim Bannon (Coach of the Panthers); Stockton; Stacy (villain, introduction); Stacy's mob (villains, introduction for all, all die)
The Caped Crusader doubles as a star football player, who has been kidnapped in order that his team will lose and criminals will gain big time from the bets they have made.
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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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The Secret Cavern

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Linda Lewis (singer, Henry's daughter); Henry Lewis surveyor); Renaldo (villain, club owner); Nick (villain); Blackie (villain)
A man accidentally discovers a huge cave under the gold vaults of Fort Knox, and a group of crooks put that knowledge to use when they convince the man's daughter that she has killed a man, hoping to get him to reveal the cave's location.
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Clayface Walks Again!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Julie Madison [as Portia Storme] [also briefly as Robin]; owner of a movie make-up supply store (death, cameo); un-named Fire Chief; Gabby; Mr. Bentley (head of Argus Pictures); Clayface [Basil Karlo] (villain)
Julie breaks off her engagement to Bruce, and leaves for a career in movies. However, the escape of Basil Karlo, and his revenge against Argus Pictures and Portia Storme brings the Batman into the picture.
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The Case of the Three Devils!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Officer Riley; Frankie the Fence (villain); Mike (villain); Trigger (villain); Joe (villain); Three Devils (villains, former circus acrobats, all die)
When the Caped Crusaders run into some very athletic jewels thieves, they realize that a fence for the stolen goods is the best way to track them down.
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The Riddle of the Missing Card!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Joker (villain); Jack of Diamonds [Diamond Jack Duggan] (villain, introduction, death); Black Queen (villain, introduction, death); King of Clubs (villain, introduction)
With the help of some new partners in crime, the Joker sets up a gambling ship for the rich and wealthy, hoping to get them drunk so that they can be pumped for information about their valuable jewels.
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Book of Enchantment

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Professor Anderson (inventor); Enid Anderson (the Professor's daughter); Father Time; Simple Simon; Humpty Dumpty; Gruel the Black Witch (villain); Burn (villain, the Man of Fire, death); Freeze (villain, the Man of Ice, death); a dragon (villain, death); a cyclops (villain); a giant (villain)
Batman and Robin are sent to Fairyland by an inventor's strange machine that allows people to actually enter into the scenario of a book they are reading in order to try to locate his daughter he had sent there a few days earlier and return her safely.
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The Case of the Honest Crook!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Joseph Sands (introduction); Ann Sands [nee Ann Davis] (Joe's wife, introduction); un-named shopkeeper; un-named doctor; Smiley Sikes (villain, introduction); Matty Link (villain, introduction, death)
Batman helps out a young convict released from prison who is having trouble getting an honest job to support his new, but sick wife. The Caped Crusaders then vow to help track down the rats who set him up to be arrested originally, but Robin is nearly beaten to death, and the Batman swears vengeance on those responsible.
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Crime Does Not Pay

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Batman [Bruce Wayne] [also as Trigger Burns]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Linda Page (introduction); Mrs. Grogan (Tommy's mother); Tommy Grogan; Mike Grogan (villain, Tommy's brother, introduction, death); Joe (villain)
Batman finds it very odd that a bank robber he is fighting with comes to the aid of another until he realizes that they are brothers. And he must rescue Linda Page from the clutches of one of the gangsters in order to save his brother from a life of crime.
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Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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The Witch and the Manuscript of Doom!

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The Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Erik Dorne (introduction, death); Dorne's butler; Joshua Grimm (introduction, publisher); Melissa Brunt (introduction, Dorne's Aunt); Jane Ware (introduction, actress); The Witch [Mr. Wright] (villain, introduction)
The Batman and Robin must track down The Witch, a mysterious figure responsible for the murder of Erik Dorne and the theft of a manuscript he wrote.
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