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Series: Batman Annual

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Publisher: DC

Title: Batman Annual
Issue: 4
Page Count: 84
Publish Date: Winter 1962-1963
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Contributors: Editor: Jack Schiff

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Batman Annual #4
Owner: Par2ch

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Story Title: The Secret Adventures of Batman and Robin - cover
Features:Batman and Robin
Pages:1
Pencils:Curt Swan; Win Mortimer; Sheldon Moldoff
Inks:Stan Kaye; Sheldon Moldoff
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batwoman; The First Batman [Dr. Thomas Wayne]


Story Title: Giant Batman Annual - table of contents
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The First Batman - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:10
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Inks:Stan Kaye
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Lew Moxon (first appearance, villain, death); Joey Chill (villain)
Synopsis:The discovery of an old Batman-type costume in Bruce Wayne's attic re-opens the Wayne murder case, and helps him realize that Joey Chill had only been HIRED to kill his parents...and the real man responsible was still alive and free.


Story Title: Am I Really Batman? - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:8
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Inks:Charles Paris
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Professor Milo (villain)
Synopsis:Batman wakes from a sound sleep to find himself in a mental ward, not realizing that a Professor Milo had given him a dose of amnesia gas that dulls the will to live.


Story Title: The Batwoman - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:12
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Inks:Stan Kaye
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batwoman [Kathy Kane] (intro)
Synopsis:Bruce Wayne is pleased that a newcomer, Kathy Kane, has taken such a liking to the Batman. However, when a mysterious new crimefighter appears on the scene, usurping much of Batman's glory, the Dynamic Duo steps in to halt her career before she gets seriously hurt.


Story Title: The Vanished Batman - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:7.67
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Inks:Stan Kaye
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Pack Purdy (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis:Gotham City is shocked to see Robin drive up to Police HQ one day in a Robinmobile, and refuses to comment on the disappearance of his long-time partner in crime-fighting.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Detective Comics
Pages:0.33


Story Title: The Phantom of the Bat-Cave! - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:8
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Inks:Charles Paris
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Pardu (first appearance, villain); The Society of Magicians (first appearance)
Synopsis:Batman is puzzled when a trophy of a case he just completed disappears and is replaced by another item...right in the confines of the Bat-Cave.


Story Title: Batman's College Days - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:8
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Inks:Charles Paris
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne] (origin details); Robin [Dick Grayson]; Joe Danton (first appearance, villain)
Synopsis:Bruce Wayne has been invited on a 3-day reunion cruise with some of his old college athletic team chums. But joy turns to fear when their host not only discovers Batman's true identity, but threatens to kill each and every one of them with planted mines.


Story Title: The Marriage of Batman and Batwoman - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:7.5
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Inks:Ray Burnley
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batwoman [Kathy Kane]
Synopsis:Dick Grayson goes to sleep while Bruce is out on a date with Kathy, and dreams of the loss of their secret identities caused by Bruce and Kathy's marriage.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Batman; World's Finest Comics
Pages:0.5


Story Title: The Second Boy Wonder! - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:6
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Inks:Charles Paris
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Gorilla Hardy (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis:After battling Gorilla Hardy and his gang, the Dynamic Duo arrive back at the Bat-Cave, but Robin has a surprise for his caped counterpart: he is NOT Dick Grayson, but Fred Loyd, who assumed the role after Dick Grayson was injured.


Story Title: The Man Who Ended Batman's Career - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:12
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Inks:Charles Paris
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne; also as Starman]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Professor Milo (first appearance, villain)
Synopsis:Professor Milo decides to end the career of the Caped Crusader by giving him a phobia: the fear of bats!


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Giant Superman Annual; Giant Annual Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Pages:1


Story Title: [ no title ] - illustration
Features:Batman and Robin
Pages:1
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff
Inks:Sheldon Moldoff; Charles Paris
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batwoman [Kathy Kane]


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