BATMAN

February 1956 • Volume 1 • Usa • 15 Collected

BATMAN #97

The Return Of Bat-Hound

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Published

February 1956

Comic Age

Gold

Cover Price

.10

Facts

1st Silver Age Appearance of the Joker

Characters

Appearance

Batman (Bruce Wayne)

Creators

Writer

Bill Finger

Penciler

Sheldon Moldoff

Cover Penciler

Winslow Mortimer 'Win'

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* The Joker Announces Danger! * Doom On Channel 14! * The Return Of The Bat-Hound!

* 1st Silver Age APPEARANCE of "The JOKER" Earth One

STORY 1: The Joker watches Batman debut as guest announcer for an anti-crime TV program and is inspired to a new crime motif: announcing his crimes, bringing doom to his own schemes... as the Dynamic Duo can easily track the JOKER down.

STORY 2: Batman and Robin are captured by crooks on the scene of a TV program in which they are reenacting the Marty Kirk case and they ask to release Kirk from prison. Batman allows the criminals to break their associate out of prison with the only purpose of capturing the entire gang on a live TV broadcast.

STORY 3: A gang of crooks forces a dog trainer to use his dog to help them commit crimes but Batman and Robin even the odds by borrowing Ace, the Bat-Hound to aide their pursuit. ACE, The canine detective manages to locate the criminals by following the scent of the other dog and the criminals are finally captured by the Dynamic Duo.