Batman Annual #1

([Summer] 1961)

How to Be the Batman (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ed Hamilton?

Pencils:

Lew Sayre Schwartz

Inks:

Charles Paris

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner Gordon

Synopsis:

Batman loses his memory after being exposed to amnesia gas, when the antidote fails, Robin must teach the Cowled Crimefighter all that he has forgotten.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #190 (December 1952)

Indexer Notes

Origin retold

The Strange Costumes of Batman (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Edmond Hamilton

Pencils:

Dick Sprang

Inks:

Charles Paris

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner Gordon

Synopsis:

A look at some of the specialised costumes that Batman has utilised over his career, including one garment that he had hoped never to use.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #165 (November 1950)

Untold Tales of the Bat-Signal (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

David Vern

Pencils:

Lew Sayre Schwartz

Inks:

Charles Paris

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner Gordon; Dave Purdy

Synopsis:

Reporter Dave Purdy saves Batman by dazzling an approaching murderer with the Bat Signal. The Masked Manhunter is happy to let Purdy have the credit, even though he had been forced to do an impromptu wiring job which enabled the intrepid reporter's plan to work.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #164 (October 1950)

The Origin of the Bat-Cave (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger

Pencils:

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks:

Charles Paris

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Professor Nicholls; Jeremy Coe

Synopsis:

Professor Nicholls sends the Dynamic Duo back in time 300 years, there they meet Jeremy Coe, a frontiersman spy who doubles as a Red Indian. When they realise that Coe's headquarters is in the cavern that will one day become the Bat-Cave, they help him with Colonial Age versions of their crime fighting apparatus.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #205 (March 1954)

Batman's Electronic Crime-File (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Ed Hamilton?

Pencils:

Dick Sprang

Inks:

Charles Paris

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner Gordon; John Vanner

Synopsis:

The microfilm from Batman's crime file is stolen from the Bat-Cave. It is then a race against time to apprehend the villains, before they start to use the information to give them the edge over the Dynamic Duo.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #229 (March 1956)

Indexer Notes

original title: The 10,000 Secrets of Batman

Thrilling Escapes of Batman and Robin (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger?

Pencils:

Sheldon Moldoff

Inks:

Charles Paris

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Batman; Robin; Vicki Vale; Paul King

Synopsis:

Villainous Paul King captures Batman and Robin, he then sets about devising an inescapable trap, based on Robin's recollections about their previous ingenious escapes.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #221 (July 1955)

Indexer Notes

original title: 1,001 Escapes of Batman and Robin

The Amazing Inventions of Batman (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Edmond Hamilton

Pencils:

Dick Sprang

Inks:

Charles Paris

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Batman; Robin; Commissioner Gordon

Synopsis:

Batman gets word that one of his inventions is to be used against him, he and Robin must then examine their many crime fighting innovations for clues.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #109 (August 1957)

Indexer Notes

original title 1,001 Inventions of Batman