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Issue: The Batman Chronicles #7
Publication Date: May 2009
 
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 03/18/2009
Volume: 7
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9781401221348
UPC/EAN: 978140122134851499
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 #66-70, Batman #12-13, and World's Finest Comics #7.
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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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The Crimes of Two-Face!

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Gilda (Harvey Kent's fiancee, a sculptress, introduction); Dr. Ekhart; Joe (villain, death)
At a criminal trial, District Attorney Harvey Kent is disfigured by acid thrown into his face, and the shock drives him to become a master criminal who bases all of his crimes on the number two, and who uses a two-headed silver dollar to decide if he will keep the loot from a crime or not.
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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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Brothers in Crime!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Rafferty Brothers [Peter (death); Steve (death); Mike (death)] (villains)
While visiting their trophy room, the Caped Crusaders come across a bullet-proof vest, a keepsake from a case involving the Rafferty Brothers, who unwittingly implicated their brother Peter in a murder.
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The Wizard of Words!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; un-namewd banker; un-named District Attorney; un-named Mayor; the Joker (villain); Slapsy (villain)
Batman must once again battle the Harlequin of Hate, who, this time, decides to carry out, word for word, the slang words that people use every day in order to commit his crimes.
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George Roussos also credited as inker in this volume.
They Thrill to Conquer!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Ben "Fearless" Ford (stunt man); Nan Ford Ben's wife); Tommy Ford (Ben and Nan's son); Joe Kirk (villain); Duke (villain)
Batman must battle a gang of criminals who are trying to blackmail professional stuntmen.
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Around the Clock with the Batman!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; un-named Mayor of Gotham City; Mr. Hodge (art connoisseur); Frankie (little boy with infantile paralysis); Margie (villain); "Heist" Andrews (villain)
Gotham City celebrates "Batman Day", honoring all of the Caped Crusader's amazing accomplishments. And the events leading up to that day also helps Bruce Wayne complete the last chapter of a book he is writing.
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Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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The North Pole Crimes!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Cal Daly (introduction); Curly (introduction, death); Angles Bigbee (villain, introduction); The Snow Man Bandits (villains, introduction for all); Ray (villain, introduction)
A ruthless gang of criminals heads to the far north to commit crimes and the Dynamic Duo must solve the riddle of their leaving a snowman at the scene of every crime they commit.
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Crime's Early Bird

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot]
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Crime's Early Bird!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Sing Hi Lo (stage performer); Mr. Gemly (jewel collector, death); The Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot; also as I. Waddle] (villain); Louie the Lip (villain); Hotfoot Harry (villain)
The Penguin uses birds sold in his store in a variety of ways to commit crimes, but the Batman catches on to his trick and tries to fight fire with fire.
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The Man Who Led a Double Life!

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The Man Who Led a Double Life!

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Gilda (Harvey's fiancee); Henry Logan (matchstick object collector); Henry Logan's double; Gotham City's Mayor; a mask maker; mask maker's son; Al (villain); "Getaway" George (villain); Two-Face's criminal combine (villains)
Two-Face gets away from Batman and resumes his criminal career, but, in the end, is double-crossed by one of his own men!
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The Batman Plays a Lone Hand!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; The Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot] (villain, cameo); The Joker (villain, cameo); The Thumb (villain, introduction); Thumb's henchmen (villains)
Dick is rudely shocked when Bruce literally kicks him out of the house, not knowing that the Thumb has threatened to kill the Boy Wonder if Batman doesn't lay off.
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Script credited to Bill Finger in this volume.
Comedy of Tears!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Johnny Blake (student); Joe Brady; Mr. van Gild; Joe DiMaggio (cameo); Jerry Siegel (cameo); Artemus Bigby (author)The Joker (villain); Bruiser (villain); Pretty Boy Dugan (villain)
The Caped Crusaders are bewildered to discover the reason behind the Joker's new campaign: to make people cry.
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The Story of the Seventeen Stones!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Mason (reformed villain, architect, introduction); Brenner (reformed villain, diamond cutter); Parks (reformed villain); Rocky Grimes (villain, introduction, death); Lefty Slade (villain, introduction, death); "Fin" Gonzy (villain, loan shark, introduction, death)
Once suffering from amnesia, and having served 20 years in jail on the rock pile, criminal Rocky Grimes decides to get back at former members of his mob by using stones.
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Destination Unknown!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Detective Guffey; Commissioner James Gordon; Clyde Clayborn (collector of oddities); Miss Hibbs (Clayborn's Secretary); Mr. Fortesque (man in an iron lung, actually a wax dummy); John Keyes (innocent prisoner); Ken Thorne (President of the railroad); Trigger Turk (villain, introduction); Biff Bolton (villain, introduction)
A couple of criminals board a train, disguised as a doctor and his nurse, in order to get to a man accused of crime being transferred to the gas chamber, and kill him in an iron lung.
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The Harlequin's Hoax!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Joker
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The Harlequin's Hoax!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Linda Page; Charles Saunders; Mr. Fordney; Richard Morse; Jim Brown; The Joker (villain); Joker's henchmen (villains)
The Joker returns with a madcap scheme: handing out less than perfect, but generous, gifts to people, all with a sinister purpose in mind.
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Man Who Could Read Minds

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The Man Who Could Read Minds!

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Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Carlo (villain, death)
An accident turns a sideshow swami into a real mind-reader, a man who can guess every opponent's plan, anticipate his every move and strike as fast as they can think! And when he guesses the true identities of the Dynamic Duo, this may well be their last case!
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