THE GOLDEN AGE BATMAN INDEX

"Detective Comics" Only

(In Order of Appearance - Through April, 1964)

Select a year, below, or simply scroll from year to year. Each year is organized by comic book title and issue number, and the name of each story in which The Batman appears in the issue. Some issue titles are linked to an image of the cover of the issue.

1939

Detective 27 - "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" (1st Appearance)

Detective 28. - (this story has no title - captures jewel thief)

Detective 29 - "The Batman Meets Doctor Death!"

Detective 30 - (this story has no title - second battle with Dr. Death)

Detective 31 - (this story has no title - The Batman battles the Monk)

Detective 32 - (this story has no title - continuation of battle with the Monk)

Detective 33 - "The Batman Wars Against the Dirigible of Doom" (Origin)

Detective 34 - (this story has no title - battles Duc D'Orterre)

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1940

Detective 35 - (this story has no title - battles Sheldon Lenox)

Detective 36 - (this story has no title - battles Hugo Strange)

Detective 37 - (this story has no title - battles Count Grutt)

Detective 38 - "Robin the Boy Wonder" (Origin and 1st appearance)

Detective 39 - (this story has no title - battles Green Dragon)

Detective 40 - (this story has no title - battles Clayface)

Detective 41 - (this story has no title - battles Evil Graves)

Detective 42 - "The Case of the Prophetic Pictures!"

Detective 43 - "The Case of the City of Terror!"

Detective 44 - "The Land Beyond the Light!"

Detective 45 - "The Case of the Laughing Death!"

Detective 46 - (this story has no title - battles Hugo Strange)

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1941

Detective 47 - (this story has no title - Harvey Midas family)

Detective 48 - "The Secret Cavern!"

Detective 49 - "Clayface Walks Again!"

Detective 50 - "The Case of the Three Devils!"

Detective 51 - "The Case of the Mystery Carnival!"

Detective 52 - "The Secret of the Jade Box!"

Detective 53 - (this story has no title - battles Toothy Hare gang)

Detective 54 - "Hook Morgan and His Harbor Pirates!"

Detective 55 - "The Brain Burglar!"

Detective 56 - "The Stone Idol!"

Detective 57 - "Twenty-Four Hours to Live!"

Detective 58 - (no title - battles the Penguin - 1st appearance)

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1942

Detective 59 - "The King of the Jungle!"

Detective 60 - "The Case of the Costume-Clad Killers!"

Detective 61 - "The Three Racketeers!"

Detective 62 - "Laugh, Town, Laugh!"

Detective 63 - "A Gentleman in Gotham!"

Detective 64 - "The Joker Walks the Last Mile!"

Detective 65 - "The Cop Who Hated The Batman!"

Detective 66 - "The Crimes of Two-Face!" (origin and 1st appearance)

Detective 67 - "Crime's Early Bird!"

Detective 68 - "The Man Who Led a Double Life!"

Detective 69 - "The Harlequin's Hoax!"

Detective 70 - "The Man Who Could Read Minds!"

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1943

Detective 71 - "A Crime a Day!"

Detective 72 - "License for Larceny!"

Detective 73 - "The Scarecrow Returns!"

Detective 74 - "Tweedledum and Tweedledee!" (1st appearance)

Detective 75 - "The Robber Barron!"

Detective 76 - "Slay 'em With Flowers!"

Detective 77 - "The Crime Clinic!"

Detective 78 - "The Bond Wagon!"

Detective 79 - "Destiny's Auction!"

Detective 80 - "The End of Two-Face!"

Detective 81 - "The Cavalier of Crime!"

Detective 82 - "The Quarterback of Crime!"

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1944

Detective 83 - "Accidentally on Purpose!"

Detective 84 - "Artists in Villainy!"

Detective 85 - "The Joker's Double!"

Detective 86 - "Danger Strikes Three!"

Detective 87 - "The Man of a Thousand Umbrellas!"

Detective 88 - "The Merchants of Misery!"

Detective 89 - "Laboratory Loot!"

Detective 90 - "Crime Between the Acts!"

Detective 91 - "The Case of the Practical Joker!"

Detective 92 - "Crime's Man-Hunt!"

Detective 93 - "One Night of Crime!"

Detective 94 - "No One Must Know!"

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1945

Detective 95 - (this story has no title - battles the Blaze)

Detective 96 - "Alfred, Private Detective!"

Detective 97 - "The Secret of the Switch!"

Detective 98 - "The King of the Hoboes!"

Detective 99 - "The Temporary Murders!"

Detective 100 - "The Crow's Nest Mystery!"

Detective 101 - "The Tyrannical Twins!"

Detective 102 - "The House that was Held for Ransom!"

Detective 103 - "Trouble, Incorporated!"

Detective 104 - "The Battle of the Billboards!"

Detective 105 - "The Batman Goes Broke!"

Detective 106 - "The Phantom of the Library!"

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1946

Detective 107 - "The Mountain of the Moon!"

Detective 108 - "The Goat of Gotham City!"

Detective 109 - "The House that Jokes Built!"

Detective 110 - "Batman and Robin in Scotland Yard!"

Detective 111 - "Coaltown, USA!"

Detective 112 - "The Case Without a Crime!"

Detective 113 - "Crime on the Half-Shell!"

Detective 114 - "Acrostic of Crime!"

Detective 115 - "The Man Who Lived in a Glass House!"

Detective 116 - "The Rescue of Robin Hood!"

Detective 117 - "Steeplejack's Showdown!"

Detective 118 - "The Royal Flush Crimes!"

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1947

Detective 119 - "The Case of the Famous Foes!"

Detective 120 - "Fowl Play!"

Detective 121 - "Commissioner Gordon Walks a Beat!"

Detective 122 - "The Black Cat Crimes!"

Detective 123 - "The Dawn Patrol Crimes!"

Detective 124 - "The Crime Parade!"

Detective 125 - "The Citadel of Crime!"

Detective 126 - "Case of the Silent Songbirds!"

Detective 127 - "Pigmies in Giantland!"

Detective 128 - "Crimes in Reverse!"

Detective 129 - "The Isle of Yesterday!"

Detective 130 - "The Box!"

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1948

Detective 131 - "The Underworld Surgeon!"

Detective 132 - "The Human Key!"

Detective 133 - "The Man Who Could See the Future!"

Detective 134 - "The Umbrellas of Crime!"

Detective 135 - "The True Story of Frankenstein!"

Detective 136 - "The Dead Man's Chest!"

Detective 137 - "The Rebus Crimes!"

Detective 138 - "The Invisible Crimes!"

Detective 139 - "Crimes of Jade!"

 Detective 140 - "The Riddler!" (Origin and 1st appearance)

Detective 141 - "The Gallery of Public Heroes!"

Detective 142 - "Crime's Puzzle Contest!"

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1949

Detective 143 - "The Pied Piper of Peril!"

Detective 144 - "Kay Kyser's Mystery Broadcast!"

Detective 145 - "Robin, The Boy Failure!"

Detective 146 - "Three's a Crime!"

Detective 147 - "Tiger Shark!"

Detective 148 - "The Experiment of Professor Zero!"

Detective 149 - "The Sound-Effect Crimes!"

Detective 150 - "The Ghost of Gotham City!"

Detective 151 - "I.O.U. My Life!"

Detective 152 - "The Goblin of Gotham City!"

Detective 153 - "The Flying Batman!"

Detective 154 - Underground Railroad of Crime!"

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1950

Detective 155 - "Bruce Wayne, Private Detective!"

Detective 156 - "The Batmobile of 1950!"

Detective 157 - "The Race of the Century!"

Detective 158 - "The Thousand and One Trophies of Batman!"

Detective 159 - "Bruce Wayne - You are Batman!"

Detective 160 - "The Globe Trotter of Crime!"

Detective 161 - "The Man Who Died on Time!"

Detective 162 - "The Law of the Iron Road!"

Detective 163 - "The Man Who Feared Metal!"

Detective 164 - "Untold Tales of the Bat-Signal!"

Detective 165 - "The Strange Costumes of Batman!"

Detective 166 - "The Man with a Million Faces!"

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1951

Detective 167 - "Bodyguards to Cleopatra!"

Detective 168 - "The Man Behind the Red Hood!" (Origin Joker)

Detective 169 - "Batman - Boss of the Big House!"

Detective 170 - "The Flying Dutchman II!"

Detective 171 - "The Menace of the Giant Birds!"

Detective 172 - "The Outlaw Who Had Nine Lives!"

Detective 173 - "Batman's Double!"

Detective 174 - "The Park Avenue Kid!"

Detective 175 - "The Underworld Bank!"

Detective 176 - "The Underworld Crime Committee!"

Detective 177 - "The Robberies in the Bat-Cave!"

Detective 178 - "The Defeat of Batman!"

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1952

Detective 179 - "Bruce Wayne, Mayor of Gotham City!"

Detective 180 - "The Joker's Millions!"

Detective 181 - "The Crimes of the Human Magnet!"

Detective 182 - "The Human Puppets!"

Detective 183 - "Famous Names Crimes!"

Detective 184 - "The Human Firefly!"

Detective 185 - "The Secret of Batman's Utility Belt!"

Detective 186 - "The Flying Bat-Cave!"

Detective 187 - "The Double Crimes of Two-Face!"

Detective 188 - "The Doom in the Batcave!"

Detective 189 - "The Undersea Hideout!"

Detective 190 - "How to be Batman!" (Origin Retold)

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1953

Detective 191 - "The Man with a License to Kill!"

Detective 192 - "The Phantom Eye of Gotham City!"

Detective 193 - "The Joker's Journal!"

Detective 194 - "The Stolen Bank!"

Detective 195 - "The Original Batman!"

Detective 196 - "City Without Guns!"

Detective 197 - "The League Against Batman!"

Detective 198 - "The Lord of Batmanor!"

Detective 199 - "The Invisible Batman!"

Detective 200 - "Radio Station C-R-I-M-E!"

Detective 201 - "The Human Target!"

Detective 202 - "Millionaire Island!"

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1954

Detective 203 - "The Crimes of the Catwoman!"

Detective 204 - "The Man Who Could Live Forever!"

Detective 205 - "The Origin of the Bat-Cave!"

Detective 206 - "The Trapper of Gotham City!"

Detective 207 - "Batman the Magician!"

Detective 208 - "The Nine Worlds of Batman!"

Detective 209 - "The Man Who Shadowed Batman!"

Detective 210 - "The Brain that Ruled Gotham City!"

Detective 211 - "The Jungle Cat-Queen!"

Detective 212 - "The Puppet-Master!"

Detective 213 - "The Mysterious Mirror-Man!"

Detective 214 - "The Batman Encyclopedia!"

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1955

Detective 215 - "The Batmen of All Nations!"

Detective 216 - "The Batman of Tomorrow!"

Detective 217 - "The Mental Giant of Gotham City!"

Detective 218 - "Batman, Junior and Robin, Senior!"

Detective 219 - "Gotham City's Strangest Race!"

Detective 220 - "The Second Batman and Robin Team!"

Detective 221 - "The Thousand-and-One Escapes of Batman and Robin!"

Detective 222 - "The Great Batman Swindle!"

Detective 223 - "The Batman Dime-Museum!"

Detective 224 - "The Batman Machine!"

Detective 225 - "If I Were Batman!"

Detective 226 - "When Batman Was Robin!"

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1956

Detective 227 - "The 50 Faces of Batman!"

Detective 228 - "The Outlaw Batman!"

Detective 229 - "The 10,000 Secrets of Batman!"

Detective 230 - "The Mad Hatter of Gotham City!"

Detective 231 - "Batman, Junior!"

Detective 232 - "The Outlaw Who Played Batman!"

Detective 233 - "The Batwoman!" (Origin and 1st appearance)

Detective 234 - "Batman and Robin's Greatest Mystery!"

Detective 235 - "The First Batman!"

Detective 236 - "The New-Model Batman!"

Detective 237 - "The Search for a New Robin!"

Detective 238 - "The Doors That Hid Disaster!"

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1957

Detective 239 - "Batman's Robot Twin!"

Detective 240 - "The Outlaw Batman!"

Detective 241 - "The Rainbow Batman!"

Detective 242 - "The Underworld Bat-Cave!"

Detective 243 - "Batman the Giant!"

Detective 244 - "The 100 Batarangs of Batman!"

Detective 245 - "The Dynamic Trio!"

Detective 246 - "Murder at Mystery Castle!"

Detective 247 - "The Man Who Ended Batman's Career!"

Detective 248 - "Around the World in 8 Days!"

Detective 249 - "The Crime of Bruce Wayne!"

Detective 250 - "The Batman's Super-Enemy!"

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1958

Detective 251 - "The Alien Batman!"

Detective 252 - "The Creature from the Green Lagoon!"

Detective 253 - "The Fox, The Shark and The Vulture!"

Detective 254 - "One Ounce of Doom!"

Detective 255 - "Death in Dinosaur Hall!"

Detective 256 - "The Captive Planet!"

Detective 257 - "Batman's Invincible Foe!"

Detective 258 - "Prisoners of the Giant Robots!"

Detective 259 - "The Challenge of the Calendar Man!"

Detective 260 - "The Mystery of the Space Olympics!"

Detective 261 - "The Amazing Dr. Double X!"

Detective 262 - "The Jackal of the Underworld!"

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1959

Detective 263 - "The Secret of the Fantastic Weapons!"

Detective 264 - "Peril at Playland Isle!"

Detective 265 - "Batman's First Case!"

Detective 266 - "The Satellite of Gotham City!"

Detective 267 - "Batman Meets Bat-Mite!"

Detective 268 - "The Power that Doomed Batman!"

Detective 269 - "The Thousand Deaths of Batman!"

Detective 270 - "The Creature from Planet X!"

Detective 271 - "Batman's Armored Rival!"

Detective 272 - "The Crystal Creature!"

Detective 273 - "Secret of the Dragon Society!"

Detective 274 - "Hermit of Mystery!"

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1960

Detective 275 - "The Zebra Batman!"

Detective 276 - "The Return of Bite-Mite!"

Detective 277 - "The Jigsaw Menace from Space!"

Detective 278 - "The Man Who Became a Giant!"

Detective 279 - "The Creatures that Stalked Batman!"

Detective 280 - "The Menace of the Atomic Man!"

Detective 281 - "Batman, Robot!"

Detective 282 - "Batman's Interplanetary Rival!"

Detective 283 - "The Phantom of Gotham City!"

Detective 284 - "The Negative Batman!"

Detective 285 - "The Mystery of the Man-Beast!"

Detective 286 - "The Doomed Batwoman!"

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1961

Detective 287 - "The Raven and The Wasp!"

Detective 288 - "The Menace of the Multiple Creature!"

Detective 289 - "The Bat-Mite Bandits!"

Detective 290 - "Robin's Robot!"

Detective 291 - "The Creature from the Bat-Cave!"

Detective 292 - "The Colossus of Gotham City!"

Detective 293 - "Prisoners of the Dark World!"

Detective 294 - "The Villain of 100 Elements!"

Detective 295 - "The Secret of the Beast Paintings!"

Detective 296 - "The Menace of the Planet Master!"

Detective 297 - "The Beast of Koba Bay!"

Detective 298 - "The Challenge of Clay-Face!"

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1962

Detective 299 - "Prey of the Alien Hunters!"

Detective 300 - "The Bizarre Pola-Dot Man!"

Detective 301 - "The Condemned Batman!"

Detective 302 - "The Bronze Menace!"

Detective 303 - "Murder in Sky Land!"

Detective 304 - "The Return of Clayface!"

Detective 305 - "Targets of the Alien Z-Ray!"

Detective 306 - "The Wizard of 1,000 Menaces!"

Detective 307 - "Alpha, The Experimental Man!"

Detective 308 - "The Flame Master!"

Detective 309 - "Mystery of the Mardi Gras Murders!"

Detective 310 - "Bat-Mite's Super Circus!"

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1963

Detective 311 - "The Challenge of the Cat-Man!"

Detective 312 - "The Secret of Clayface's Power!"

Detective 313 - "The Mystery of the $1,000,000 Treasure Hunt!"

Detective 314 - "Murder in Movieland!"

Detective 315 - "The Jungle Man of Gotham City!"

Detective 316 - "Double Batman vs. Double X!"

Detective 317 - "The Secrets of the Flying Bat-Cave!"

Detective 318 - "The Cat-Man Strikes Back!"

Detective 319 - "The Fantastic Dr. No-Face!"

Detective 320 - "Batman and Robin - Mummy Crime Fighters!"

Detective 321 - "The Terrible Trio!"

Detective 322 - "The Bizarre Batman Genie!"

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1964

Detective 323 - "The Zodiac Master!"

Detective 324 - "Menace of the Robot Brain!"

Detective 325 - "The Strange Lives of the Cat-Man!"

Detective 326 - "Captives of the Alien Zoo!"

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"NEW LOOK" BATMAN BEGINS - MAY, 1964 - DETECTIVE 327

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