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Batman #8 (1941) · The Collector

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Batman (1940)
#8

DC Comics#8

Batman

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Batman #8

Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make / The Strange Case of Professor Radium! / The Superstition Murders! / The Cross Country Crimes!

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: December 1941
On sale: Oct 7, 1941
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 68

Key issue

1st appearance of Mary's Maid

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Credits

Writers: Bill Finger, Henry Boltinoff
Pencillers: Bob Kane, Henry Boltinoff, Joe Gallagher
Inkers: Jerry Robinson, George Roussos, Henry Boltinoff, Joe Gallagher
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Sources

Grand Comics Database issue 1909

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From prison, Big Mike Russo is able to have his gang kidnap the warden, replace him and the guards with a look alike, then use the prison as a base of operations to commit crimes while providing alibis to those committing them! Batman figures that the only way to uncover this scenario is to get put in prison himself, a move that almost costs him his life in the gas chamber!

George Roussos, Henry Boltinoff

Covers

Fred Ray, Jerry Robinson

Editor

Whitney Ellsworth

Characters

Mary's Maid· 1st appearance
Al
also as I. Namtab]
Banks
Batman
Batman [Bruce Wayne
Big Mike Russo
Chief Hot Foot
Commissioner James Gordon
Fred Brooks
G. Henry Mover
John
Johnny Glim
Johnston
Mary Lamont
Miss Francine
Paul Mett
Pokey Beezer
Professor Radium
Robin
Russo's lawyer
The Joker
Trigger Sherman
unnamed Coroner
Warden Higgins

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