- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Jim Mooney
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Wolf Brando (villain, introduction, death); Commissioner James Gordon; Reilly (police officer); Two-Face [Harvey Dent] (image); The Joker (image)
- Synopsis
- An escaped convict on the run accidentally discovers the entrance to the Batcave and learns the secret identities of Batman and Robin, and attacks the dynamic duo using their own weapons and trophies against them.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Bat Signal; Batcave; Batmobile; Batplane
Story includes a diagram of the Batcave.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Win Mortimer
- Inks
- Win Mortimer
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; Robin; Two-Face
- Reprints
Top of cover reprint is cut off to accommodate text heading at top of page.
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Sheldon Moldoff
- Inks
- Stan Kaye
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Dr. Thomas Wayne; Martha Wayne; Joey Chill; Lew Moxon
- Synopsis
- Bruce finds out his father was the "first" Batman and later finds the man who paid Joey Chill to shoot his father.
- Reprints
Retelling of the origin of Batman.
- Script
- Michael Friedrich
- Pencils
- Bob Brown
- Inks
- Joe Giella
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner Gordon; Alfred (cameo)
- Reprints
Original title was "The Cry of the Night Is-- 'Sudden Death!'" Re-write of "Case of the Chemical Syndicate" from Detective Comics #27.
The story is relettered with larger text to accommodate the digest pages. Pages #8 and #11 are expanded to full pages. A box announcing a reprint of The Case of the Chemical Syndicate in Detective #387 is removed. A new box describing the difference between the two versions is added. This is the version reprinted in Detective #627, enlarged to standard page size.