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Cover of Batman (1940) #80

Batman (1940) #80

DC 1940–2011 series Vol. 1 Cover date Dec 1953

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About this issue

Batman #80 (1940) is issue #80 of DC's Batman (1940–2011), with a cover date of December 1953. Written by Henry Boltinoff and Bill Woolfolk and drawn by Henry Boltinoff, Nick Cardy, Bob Kane and others.

Creators

Writers
Henry Boltinoff, Bill Woolfolk
Pencillers
Henry Boltinoff, Nick Cardy, Bob Kane, Lew Sayre Schwartz, Dick Sprang
Inkers
Henry Boltinoff, Nick Cardy, Charles Paris
Letterers
Henry Boltinoff, Gaspar Saladino
Cover artist
Win Mortimer

Characters

The stories

“The Joker's Movie Crimes!”

The Joker forms a movie production company and films his crimes as instructional films for the underworld. Soon, Joker raises the stakes and starts filming a movie to show the underworld how to handle Batman and Robin by continually making the Dynamic Duo look silly with his pranks.

“Dick Grayson's Nightmare!”

With Batman out of town, Dick is a witness to bizarre circumstances which he reports to the police, but with no evidence to support his story, no one believes him. Later Dick witnesses a gang of criminals committing a robbery, but he knows that no one will believe him, so he must find a way to stop the crooks as Robin.

“The Deadly Dingo!”

“The Machines of Menace!”

Batman and Robin investigate when monstrous machines are used to commit robberies and trace them to a small island run by criminals who control the machines.

Credits, characters and story details from the Grand Comics Database, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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