With Batman's 300th appearance in Detective Comics #327, editor Julius Schwartz decided to give Batman and Robin a "new look". This paperback is the fifth collection to reprint the first stories from Detective Comics and Batman with this new editorial approach in black and white, and in chronological order. This fifth collection reprints stories from September, 1969 to January, 1971.
Issues
This paperback collects stories from the following comic books:
- Detective Comics #391 (The Gal Most Likely to Be - Batman's Widow!)
- Detective Comics #392 (I Died... a Thousand Deaths)
- Batman #216 (Angel - or Devil?)
- Detective Comics #393 (The Combo Caper!)
- Batman #217 (One Bullet Too Many!)
- Detective Comics #394 (A Victim's Victim!)
- Detective Comics #395 (The Secret of the Waiting Graves)
- Batman #219 (Death Casts the Deciding Vote and The Silent Night of the Batman)
- Detective Comics #396 (The Brain Pickers!)
- Batman #220 (This Murder Has Been... Pre-Recorded!)
- Detective Comics #397 (Paint a Picture of Peril!)
- Detective Comics #398 (The Poison-Pen Puzzle!)
- Batman #221 (A Bat-Death for Batman! and Hot Time in Gotham Town Tonight!)
- Detective Comics #399 (Death Comes to a Small Locked Room!)
- Batman #222 (Dead...Till Proven Alive! and Case of No Consequence!)
- Detective Comics #400 (Challenge of the Man-Bat!)
- Detective Comics #401 (Target for Tonight!)
- Batman #224 (Carnival of the Cursed)
- Detective Comics #402 (Man or Bat?)
- Batman #225 (Wanted for Murder-One, the Batman)
- Detective Comics #403 (You Die by Mourning)
- Detective Comics #404 (Ghost of the Killer Skies!)
- Batman #226 (The Man with Ten Eyes!)
- Detective Comics #405 (The First of the Assassins)
- Batman #227 (The Demon of Gothos Mansion!)
- Detective Comics #406 (Your Servant of Death - Dr. Darrk)
- Detective Comics #407 (Marriage: Impossible)
Notes
- Batman #218, Batman #223 and Batman #228 are not reprinted in this collection, because these were reprint issues.
Related
 This paperback collection is part of DC Comics' Showcase Presents series. This volume reprints various DC Comics stories in black and white, originally published during the Golden, Silver and Bronze Age publishing eras. This template will categorize articles that include it into Category:Showcase Presents.
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