This hardcover collection reprints classic Batman stories originally published from 1939 to 1970 and were originally printed in color, but in this collected volume almost the entire collected is printed in black and white. This 388 page volume was published by Crown Publishers, Inc. on behalf of DC Comics.
Issues
- Detective Comics #27 ("The Case of the Chemical Syndicate")
- Batman #1 ("Who He Is and How He Came to Be", "The Joker")
- Batman #16 ("Here Comes Alfred")
- Detective Comics #29 ("The Batman Meets Doctor Death")
- Detective Comics #38 ("Robin the Boy Wonder")
- Detective Comics #40 ("Clayface")
- Detective Comics #140 ("The Riddler")
- Detective Comics #168 ("The Man Behind the Red Hood")
- Detective Comics #205 ("The Origin of the Bat-Cave!")
- World's Finest #88 ("Superman's and Batman's Greatest Foes")
- Batman #67 ("The Man Who Wrote the Joker's Jokes")
- Batman #68 ("The New Crimes of Two-Face")
- Batman #77 ("The Crime Predictor")
- Batman #81 ("Two-Face Strikes Again!")
- Batman #86 ("The Voyage of the First Batmarine", "Batman -- Indian Chief")
- Batman #92 ("Ace, the Bat-Hound")
- Detective Comics #233 ("The Batwoman")
- Batman #105 ("The Challenge of Batwoman")
- World's Finest #113 ("Bat-Mite Meets Mr. Mxyzptlk")
- Batman #131 ("The Second Batman and Robin Team")
- Batman #139 ("Bat-Girl!")
- Batman #144 ("Bat-Mite Meets Bat-Girl!")
- Batman #153 ("Prisoners of Three Worlds", "Death from Beyond", "Dimension of Doom")
- Batman #217 ("One Bullet Too Many")
- Detective Comics #359 ("The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl")
- Detective Comics #395 ("The Secret of the Waiting Graves")
- Detective Comics #402 ("Man or Bat?")
- Batman #227 ("The Demon of Gothos Mansion")