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Publisher: DC

Title: Batman
Issue: 16
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: April-May 1943
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Batman #16
Owner: Harley Troy

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Muscle Power Co.
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Joker Reforms! - comic story
Pages:13
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Sheriff Jeb Johnson; Sam Upson (proprietor of the General Store and post office); The Joker [also as Ed Smith] (villain); Joker's gang [Kite; Sparky; Nitro] (villains)
Synopsis:After robbing a jewelry store, the Joker crash-lands his escape plane and loses his memory. He stumbles into a town where he becomes a hero...but not to the other members of his gang, who seek the jewels, and come looking for him, as do the Caped Crusaders.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Pages:0.5
Genre:humor
Characters:Shorty


Story Title: The Winning Team!! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Detective Comics
Pages:0.5


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Marmaduke Jones
Pages:1
Genre:adventure; humor
Characters:Marmaduke Jones; Susie


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Features:Silly Willy
Pages:0.5
Genre:humor
Characters:Silly Willy
Synopsis:Willy looks for a quiet place to knit.


Story Title: Bombshell! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Boy Commandos
Pages:0.5


Story Title: The Grade A Crimes! - comic story
Pages:13
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Bill; John Winthrop (villain, introduction); Winthrop's gang [Sparks; rest unnamed] (villains)
Synopsis:After a series of early-bird robberies, Batman notes the appearances of a milkman and his horse-drawn wagon at the scene of every crime, and makes the connection that it is involved in the heists.


Story Title: The Big Eight! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1


Story Title: Ghost Ship! - cartoon
Pages:1
Genre:non-fiction


Story Title: The Adventures of the Branded Tree! - comic story
Pages:13
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Scotty (lumberjack); Olaf Yonson (lumberjack, death); Bull Beeton (villain, introduction); Knuckles (villain)
Synopsis:Batman and Robin track down the secret of a dagger-branded tree that led to the murder of two lumberjacks.


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Pages:0.5
Genre:humor
Characters:Chief Hot Foot


Story Title: World's Finest Value! - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:World's Finest Comics
Pages:0.5


Story Title: Editorial Advisory Board - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:0.33
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Motive - text story
Pages:1.67
Letters:typeset
Genre:adventure
Characters:Spencer; Junius; Sheriff Tate


Story Title: [ no title ] - cartoon
Features:Laffs
Pages:0.5
Genre:humor


Story Title: Fast As a Bullet! - advertisement
Features:Prize Comics; Headline Comics
Pages:0.5


Story Title: [ no title ] - comic story
Pages:1
Genre:humor
Characters:Clancy the Cop


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1


Story Title: Here Comes Alfred! - comic story
Pages:13
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth (introduction); Jarvis Pennyworth (Alfred's father who was a butler for Thomas Wayne, mention only); The Duke of Dorian [aka Gaston LeDuc]; Manuel Stiletti (villain, international crook, introduction); Pablo (villain); Tomas (villain)
Synopsis:Things get very complicated when an English butler, named Alfred, suddenly shows up on the doorstep of Wayne Manor and announces that he is there to attend to their needs in order to fulfill a promise that he made to the original butler for the Wayne family. Then he discovers accidentally that his new masters are in reality Batman and Robin!


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Lancaster County Seed Co.
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:Wonders of Science Simplified
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Features:American Seed Co.
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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