- Script
- Carmine Infantino
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Last February, The Batman lost a father...
Inside front cover. Memorializes Bill Finger.
- Pencils
- Bob Kane (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Kane (signed); Jerry Robinson (backgrounds)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
- Reprints
This is an inner cover printed on glossy paper (the rest of the book is newsprint).
The inks credit was verified by Robinson.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- Ad for winning prizes from the Crowell-Collier Publishing Co., Springfield Ohio.
- Reprints
Reprint of the original inside front cover.
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Bob Kane (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Kane; Sheldon Moldoff (backgrounds)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sheldon Moldoff
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne] (origin); Thomas Wayne; Martha Wayne; Joe Chill (unnamed)
- Synopsis
- Bruce Wayne's parent are murdered by a cheap crook, and young Bruce vows to avenge their deaths by warring on all criminals.
- Reprints
The background inks and letters credits were verified by Moldoff.
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Bob Kane (signed); Jerry Robinson (see notes)
- Inks
- Bob Kane (signed); Jerry Robinson (backgrounds)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jerry Robinson
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Once again a master criminal stalks the city streets...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Henry Claridge (Death); Jay Wilde (Death); Judge Drake (Death); The Joker (Villain; Introduction); Brute Nelson (Death)
- Synopsis
- Batman faces a new criminal who succeeds in killing famous men and stealing their prized possessions, leaving them all with "a smile" on their face!
- Reprints
There is an earlier chronological appearance (and origin) of the Joker in Detective Comics #168.
Robinson verified with Gary Watson in July 2009 that he did some penciling (including the Joker's card on the splash page specifically), in addition to the background inks and lettering he already confirmed.
- Script
- Paul Gustavson
- Pencils
- Paul Gustavson
- Inks
- Paul Gustavson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Paul Gustavson
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yippe-e! Hey-cut that out! Waho-o-o!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Major Bigsbe; Botts
- Synopsis
- Having bought the Bar Q Ranch, Major Bigsbe decides to celebrate by shootin' off his pistols...and lands in jail!
- Reprints
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, Paul Gustavson's son.
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Bob Kane (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Kane (signed); Jerry Robinson (backgrounds)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jerry Robinson
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Already an almost legendary figure...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Professor Hugo Strange (Villain); unnamed monsters (Villains; Death); the Batplane
- Synopsis
- The Batman faces an arch criminal who has invented a serum to create a race of giant monsters, and nearly becomes one of them himself!
- Reprints
Oddity: Machine guns are mounted on the Batplane, which are used to kill.
The background inks and letters credits were verified by Robinson.
- Script
- Guy Monroe (house name)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- The Chief; Terry Gallant
- Synopsis
- Detective Terry Gallant proves to his Chief that the late Barton Barlow had killed himself with a gun in a most mysterious way.
- Reprints
- Script
- Whitney Ellsworth (signed as The Editor)
- Pencils
- ? (photo)
- Inks
- ? (photo)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Readers, meet Bob Kane, creator of The Batman!
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Bob Kane (photo)
- Synopsis
- Biography of Batman creator Bob Kane.
- Reprints
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Bob Kane (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Kane; Jerry Robinson (backgrounds)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jerry Robinson
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Once more that eerie figure of the night...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; John Travers; Martha Travers; The Cat [Selina Kyle; also as Miss Peggs] (Villain); Denny
- Synopsis
- Batman and Robin take a trip aboard an exclusive yacht in order to prevent the theft of the Travers necklace at the hands of the Cat!
- Reprints
The Cat was later renamed Cat-Woman or Catwoman.
The background inks and letters credits were verified by Robinson.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? (various)
- Inks
- ? (various)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?; typeset
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Sandman; Ultra-Man; Spectre; Flash; Batman
- Synopsis
- Illustrated promotional ad for Action Comics, Adventure Comics, Detective Comics, More Fun Comics, Flash Comics, and All-American Comics, and their headline features.
- Reprints
- Script
- George Shute
- Pencils
- Raymond Perry
- Inks
- Raymond Perry
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Lt. Bill Wayne; von Berket (villain; death)
- Synopsis
- Inventor Doctor Synce gets Navy flier Wayne to fly secret plans from Pensacola, Florida to the coast, when the pilot runs up against an old adversary and ace from years before.
- Reprints
- Script
- Bob Kane (signed as Ted Raye)
- Pencils
- Bob Kane (signed as Ted Raye)
- Inks
- Bob Kane (signed as Ted Raye)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh! And only ten cents!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Ginger Snap; Uncle Zep
- Synopsis
- Uncle Zep takes Ginger to the soda shop for a soda, but ends up drinking way too many himself!
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Papp (signed as Geo. Papp)
- Inks
- George Papp (signed as Geo. Papp)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In Egypt they say "How are you sweating"? instead of "How is your health"?
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Characters
- Jack Dempsey
- Synopsis
- Contains facts about boxer Jack Dempsey, kangaroos and "greetings and salutations."
- Reprints
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Bob Kane (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Kane; Jerry Robinson (backgrounds)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jerry Robinson
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Once again that harlequin of hate..the Joker..brings grinning death...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; James Gordon; Chief of Police Chalmers (Death); Edgar Martin (Death); The Joker (Villain)
- Synopsis
- The Joker escapes from prison to continue his rampage of death and to steal the famed Cleopatra necklace and Fire Ruby.
- Reprints
As recounted in various sources, the Joker was supposed to die of his stab wound at the end of the story, but the editors decided this villain was too good to kill off, so the last panels were re-drawn to show him surviving. The last panel of the story, titled "Golden Rules for Robin's Regulars", introduces readers to "Robin's Code" of conduct.
The background inks and letters credits were verified by Robinson.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Bob Kane (signed)
- Inks
- Jerry Robinson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Clayface
- Synopsis
- Promotional ad for Detective Comics #40, whose cover is shown here.
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- ?; typeset
- Reprints
Reprinted from the original inside back cover.
- Pencils
- Bob Kane (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Kane (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; Robin
- Synopsis
- Pin-up of Batman & Robin.
- Reprints
Reprinted from the original back cover.
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Inside back cover.
- Pencils
- Bob Kane
- Inks
- Bob Kane
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman
Back cover. The figure of Batman from the cover, over a bat symbol.