Overview
This paperback is the first paperback to reprint all Batman stories in chronological order. This first paperback reprints stories from Detective Comics and Batman, from May, 1939 to April, 1940.
Issues
This paperback collects stories from the following comic books:
- Detective Comics #27 (The Case of the Chemical Syndicate)
- Detective Comics #28 (Frenchy Blake's Jewel Gang)
- Detective Comics #29 (The Batman Meets Doctor Death)
- Detective Comics #30 (The Return of Doctor Death)
- Detective Comics #31 (Batman Versus the Vampire (Part I))
- Detective Comics #32 (Batman Versus the Vampire (Part II))
- Detective Comics #33 (The Batman Wars Against the Dirigible of Doom)
- Detective Comics #34 (Peril in Paris)
- Detective Comics #35 (The Case of the Ruby Idol)
- Detective Comics #36 (Batman meets "Professor Hugo Strange")
- Detective Comics #37 (The Screaming House)
- Detective Comics #38 (Batman and "Robin the Boy Wonder")
- Batman #1 (The Legend of the Batman - Who He is, and How he Came to Be; The Joker; The Giants of Hugo Strange; The Cat; and The Joker Returns)
Notes
- This series of collected reprints should not be confused with the Batman Chronicles ongoing comic book series.
