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Issue: The Batman Chronicles #6
Publication Date: December 2008
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Issues: #6 of 11 Issues (12 Printings)
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Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 10/15/2008
Volume: 6
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9781401219611
UPC/EAN: 978140121961151499
Price: $16.99 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 #62-65, Batman #10-11, and World's Finest Comics #5-6.
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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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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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Crime Takes a Holiday

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne; also as The Gold Coast Kid]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; "Big John" Waller (villain, gambling house owner, introduction); Brains Kelley (villain, introduction); Slinky [aka Carrot-Top McGraw] (villain, introduction); Dude Davis (villain, introduction); Scar Ryan (villain, introduction); The Domino Killers (villains, introduction); The Hooded Gunmen (villains, introduction)
Synopsis: A "crime holiday" is declared by the mobs in Gotham City, but Batman and Robin soon discover the reason why: the mobs plan to disguise themselves as members of other mobs, commit crimes, and have the blame placed on them!
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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Joker
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Laugh, Town, Laugh!

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Happy Hanson (comedian, death); Hanson's lawyer; Freddie Banter (comedian, death); Denny Jackson (comedian); Jackson's butler; Claude S. Tilley (comedian, death); Buster Parks (comedian); Ted Allenby (comedian, death); The Joker (villain)
Synopsis: Comedian Happy Hanson passes away, but leaves behind a strange will. A clause states that 5 top-notch comedians have the chance to tell the funniest joke in a contest, thereby winning clues Hanson has left leading to a fabulous fortune. Then...the Joker enters the contest and all bets are off!
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The Isle That Time Forgot!

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Dolores; Professor Moloff; Dan; "Big Guy" Markham (film director)
Synopsis: For his birthday, Dick received his own version of the Batplane, and while aloft, he and Batman run into a storm, which forces them to make an emergency landing on an island inhabited by prehistoric men and creatures.
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Report Card Blues!

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Tommy Trent; Tommy's mother; Tommy's father; L. Milo (villain, a florist); Muggsy (villain)
Synopsis: Fearing that he will get a bad report at school, little Tommy runs away from home and smack dab into trouble, until the Batman rescues him and Tommy sees the light and decides to go home.
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The Princess of Plunder!

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne; also as Mrs. Fitsbuilt's butler]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Mr. Vanderwell; Vanderwell's butler; Mrs. Fitsbuilt; The Cat-Woman [Selina Kyle; aka Marguerite Tone] (villain); Cat-Woman's gang (villains)
Synopsis: Guests to a high society function don't know that their host is actually the Cat-Woman, who sends her guests out on a scavenger hunt at the same time that she sends her gang members out on one. Batman intervenes to stop that hunt before it's too late.
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The Sheriff of Ghost Town!

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Simmons (cameo); Simmon's wife (cameo); Cactus Tom (Mayor, death); Turpin (a barber); Danvers; Joe Jeffers; "Five-Aces" Frogel (villain, gambler); Blackie (villain); Bullet (villain)
Synopsis: The prospect of hidden gold brings a gang of criminals to the newly resurrected ghost town now called Sunshine City, but the pleas of a young boy brings Batman and Robin to town to clean house...as the newly elected Sheriff!
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Meet Mr. Baffle!

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A Gentleman in Gotham

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Linda Page; Mrs. Davies; Mr. Baffle [Michael Baffle] [also as Charles Courtly, society reporter] (villain, introduction); Fish-Eyes (villain); Egg-Head (villain)
Synopsis: Charged with stealing jewels in a foreign dictator's land, Michael Baffle is supposedly shot and killed. But he cheats death and makes his way to America: the land of the free, and Baffle wonders just how free this land's wealth really is.
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The Joker Walks the Last Mile!

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Joker (villain); Joker's henchmen [Charley; others un-named] (villains)
Synopsis: Depressed because he can not freely move about and spend the stolen wealth he has in his possession, the Joker turns himself in, is sentenced to die and is executed; all so that he can live again and have the freedom he desires!
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The Joker's Advertising Campaign

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; un-named Editor of the Gotham Gazette; Presto (a magician, cameo); Miss Henley (switchboard operator); The Joker [also as Presto, the Magician] (villain)
Synopsis: The Joker escapes from prison and places ads each day in the newspaper to advertize to Batman and Robin his latest criminal pursuit.
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Payment in Full

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; District Attorney Lee Benson (also in flashback); Joe Dolan (villain, also in flashback, death); Dolan's gang (villains)
Synopsis: Batman discovers that the D.A. faces one of the most difficult decisions of his life: to prosecute and send to the chair a criminal who once saved his life.
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Bandits in Toyland!

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Tom Willard; Grandma Drew; Van Courtley's butler; Hendrick's son; Henry Burton (villain); "Muscles Malone" (villain); Malone's Gang [Patsy Day; Johnny Teal] (villains)
Synopsis: Bruce Wayne is called to immediate jury duty and discovers that the defendant has been framed. Unable to convince other panel member's of the man's innocence, Batman must now gain the evidence to prove it.
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Four Birds of a Feather!

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot] (villain); Buzzard Benny (villain); Joe Crow (villain); The Canary (villain, reforms)
Synopsis: The Penguin joins in a financial enterprise with some "old friends" of his to open a night club called The Bird House in Florida...with gambling as the real racket.
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The Secret of Bruce Wayne!

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Mark Loring (introduction, actor, death); Mr. Rand (program director); Mr. Brent (script writer); Mr. Wicks; Scoop Scanlon; The Joker (villain, cameo); The Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot] (villain, cameo); The Cat-Woman [Selina Kyle] (villain, cameo); Ape (villain); Mr. Graves (villain, radio announcer, introduction)
Synopsis: The editor of View Magazine offers a raise in salary to his top reporter IF he or she can discover just WHO is behind the mask of the Batman!
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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn [Dan Turpin]; Alfy Twidgett; Pierre Chavard; Jan Haasan]
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The Cop Who Hated the Batman!

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Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Tom Bolton [Tom Nolan] (Mike Nolan's son); Mike Nolan (villain, flashback, death); Nick Rocco (villain); "Soapy" Joe (villain, death)
Synopsis: Batman and Robin join Commissioner Gordon to head for a northern state to watch the state troopers in action. While there, Batman meets a cop who holds a grudge with him because he believes Batman shot his father in the back years ago.
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