Batman Archives #7
DC Comics
United States
- Published
- [November] 2007
- Page count
- 264
- Cover price
- 49.99 USD; 60.99 CAD
- Colour
- Colour
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/386452
Credits
- Editing
- Scott Nybakken (collected edition editor)
Issue contents
Cover
No title recorded
(Batman)
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- Batman
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Credits
- Art
- Jim Mooney
- Colours
- Jamison
1Featuring
- Characters
- Riddler [Edward Nigma]
Credits
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Letters
- typeset
2Featuring
- Feature
- Batman
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Credits
- Script
- Jim Amash
- Pencils
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Letters
- typeset
Notes
Introduction by Jim Amash
3Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Scarface Carson
Credits
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
4Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Professor Nichols; Mr. Hollis; Captain Henry Morgan (villain); pirates (villains)
Credits
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
At a meeting of the Gotham City Museum Board of Trustees, Bruce Wayne sees a map from 1667 that bears his hand-writing, so he has Professor Nichols send him and Dick back to that era to see if they can solve that age old mystery.
5Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Joker
Credits
- Pencils
- Bob Kane
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
6Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Mr. Crayley; Mr. Millman; Joker (villain)
Credits
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
A clever rebus sign on a local furrier's store gives the Joker yet a new and novel method of committing his crimes!
7Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Joker (silhouette)
Credits
- Art
- Win Mortimer
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
8Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Dr. Walter Timmins (first appearance); Mr. Laird (first appearance); Mr. Stacy (first appearance); Mr. Morse (first appearance); Joker (villain)
Credits
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
The Joker follows up an article in the newspaper about a scientist discovering a lost elixir of invisibility and becomes a real terror to Batman until the crime fighter takes some of the elixir himself.
9Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Shing Far [aka Nick Baily]
Credits
- Art
- Win Mortimer
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
10Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Detective Ling Ho (first appearance); Mr. Ho (first appearance; death); Shing Far [aka Nick Baily] (first appearance; villain); Ding How (first appearance; villain); Wong How (first appearance; villain)
Credits
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Dick Sprang
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
When a brazen crime involving the theft of jade rocks Chinatown, Batman teams up with a Chinese detective to track down the criminals.
11Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Riddler [Edward Nigma]
Credits
- Art
- Win Mortimer
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
12Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Mr. Eagle; Riddler [Edward Nigma] (first appearance; villain; origin)
Credits
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Dick Sprang
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
Having grown up an expert and a cheat when it came to solving puzzles, Edward Nigma decides to use this capacity to mystify the Police and Batman.....as the Riddler!
Notes
Charles Paris is erroneously listed as the writer in the credits instead of the inker.
13Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Credits
- Pencils
- Bob Kane
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Notes
The Archive credits Lew Sayre Schwartz as penciler for the cover, but Mr. Schwartz confirmed to Craig Delich that Bob Kane was the penciler, not Mr. Schwartz. Verified by Craig Delich via e-mail on 4/29/08.
14Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; James Coy (first appearance); Blackie Nason [also as Mr. Jones] (first appearance; villain); Lippy (first appearance; villain; death)
Credits
- Pencils
- Bob Kane
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
Blackie Nason was captured because of his picture being in the Police "Rogue's Gallery," so after he escapes from prison, he has plastic surgery, then sets up his "Gallery of Undercover Cops."
Notes
The Archive credits Lew Sayre Schwartz as penciler for the story, but Mr. Schwartz confirmed to Craig Delich that Bob Kane was the penciler, not Mr. Schwartz. Verified by Craig Delich via e-mail on 4/29/08.
15Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Riddler [Edward Nigma]
Credits
- Pencils
- Dick Sprang
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
16Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Riddler [Edward Nigma] (villain)
Credits
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
The Riddler returns from the "dead" to continue his campaign of puzzle contests to baffle the Police and the Dynamic Duo.
17Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Pied Piper
Credits
- Pencils
- Jim Mooney
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
18Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; The Pied Piper (villain)
Credits
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Jim Mooney
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
The Pied Piper returns to continue his crminal activities of committing a series of "pipe" crimes, each with a pipe related to the victim's name!
19Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Kay Kyser
Credits
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
20Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Kay Kyser; Eddie Blinn; Big Jack Bancroft (villain)
Credits
- Pencils
- Dick Sprang
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
Big Jack Bancroft kidnaps Kay Kyser and his saxophonist [whom he resembles] in order to get on Kyser's radio show, "The College of Musical Knowledge" in order to hide from the Police. Kyser has to find a way to tip off Batman to this and invite him to his program in order to round up the crook.
21Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Credits
- Pencils
- Win Mortimer
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
22Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot] (cameo; villain); Crime Surgeon (cameo; villain); The Yellow Masks (first appearance; villains)
Credits
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
Dick Grayson accidentally suffers from a case of amnesia after rescuing a woman from near death. Bruce devises a plan for the youngster to "assume" the role of Robin in order to try and shock him into remembering his true identity.
23Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Numbers [Carl C. Cave]
Credits
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
24Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Numbers [Carl C. Cave] (villain); Jack Fasset (villain)
Credits
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
Carl Cave is lucky with numbers, especially concerning the lucky number "3", and he believes that number can protect him from the minions of the law....and Batman himself!
25Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Tiger Shark [Dr. Gaige]
Credits
- Pencils
- Dick Sprang
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
26Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Robert "Alps" Evans; "Jet" Fuller; Tiger Shark [Dr. Gaige] (first appearance; villain)
Credits
- Pencils
- Dick Sprang
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
A new villain decides to create a criminal empire underwater, so the Dynamic Duo create their own weapon of offense: the Sub-Batmarine!
27Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Professor Zero
Credits
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
28Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Mr. Carlyle; Mr. Gresham; Mr. Parnell; Professor Zero (first appearance; villain); Beefy (villain)
Credits
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Dick Sprang
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #148 (June 1949) — The Experiment of Professor Zero
- Also printed
-
Batman (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #14 ([July 1951?]) — The Experiment of Professor Zero!
-
Batman (DC, 1940 series) #182 (August 1966) — The Experiment of Professor Zero
-
Giant Batman Album (Colour Comics, 1962 series) #11 ([November 1966?]) — The Experiment of Professor Zero
Synopsis
Batman and Robin fall victim, like others, to a mad scientist who has found a way to reduce humans to pigmy size!
29Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Joker
Credits
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
30Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Joker (villain)
Credits
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
The sound effects from a radio drama spur the Joker to institute a new crime idea: that of using sound to create panic among the city's populace in order to make easy scores.
31Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Credits
- Pencils
- Win Mortimer
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
32Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Judge Whipple; D.A. Robert J. Pierce; Dr. Paul Visio [as Rifle Rafferty] (first appearance; villain)
Credits
- Pencils
- Dick Sprang
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
A clever doctor uses a phony "ghost" of executed mobster Rifle Rafferty and a group of stool pigeons within Gotham City's mobs in order to convince the Police and the Dynamic Duo that Rafferty has come back from the dead to exact revenge.
33Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Credits
- Art
- Jim Mooney
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
34Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Peter Chaney; Mr. Jenkins (death); Homer Davis [also as Mr. Jenkins] (villain); Ben Kole (villain); Lazy Larry Gang (villains)
Credits
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
Ben Kole, a supposed student of Egyptology, has the weird hobby of saving people's lives, then demanding that they sign an "I.O.U. My Life" form in order to later blackmail those he saved.
35Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Vicki Vale
Credits
- Art
- Jim Mooney
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
36Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Vicki Vale; Joe Baily; Edwin Cole; The Goblin [Martin Tate] (villain); Joker (villain; cameo); Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot] (villain; cameo); Catwoman (villain; cameo)
Credits
- Pencils
- Bob Kane
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Synopsis
Vicki gets the chance to do a great story on "Three dead men who live today because of the Batman," but a new Jekyll & Hyde criminal almost destroys the good this story will do.
Notes
The Archive credits Lew Sayre Schwartz as penciler for the story, but Mr. Schwartz confirmed to Craig Delich that Bob Kane was the penciler, not Mr. Schwartz. Verified by Craig Delich via e-mail on 4/29/08.
37Featuring
- Feature
- Batman
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Credits
- Art
- Dick Sprang
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Reprint history
38Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Prof. Carl Wilde; Slits Danton (villain)
Credits
- Pencils
- Dick Sprang
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #153 (November 1949) — The Flying Batman!
- Also printed
-
The All Favourites Comic Annual (Colour Comics, 1956 series) #2 ([July 1957?]) — The Flying Batman
Synopsis
The Batman takes to the air, like his namesake, on the trail of Slits Danton, all thanks to the creation of special "bat wings" created by a scientist... or so the Caped Crusader thinks!
39Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Credits
- Pencils
- Jim Mooney
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #154 (December 1949) — Untitled
- Also printed
-
Batman (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #5 ([October 1950?]) — Untitled
40Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Mary Holmes; Jim Millan
Credits
- Pencils
- Bob Kane
- Inks
- Charles Paris
- Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Reprint history
- First print
-
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #154 (December 1949) — Underground Railroad of Crime!
Synopsis
Batman goes undercover in the State Prison as Jim Millan, hoping to discover how prisoners who have escaped from that institution seem to disappear forever.
Notes
The Archive credits Lew Sayre Schwartz as penciler for the story, but Mr. Schwartz confirmed to Craig Delich that Bob Kane was the penciler, not Mr. Schwartz. Verified by Craig Delich via e-mail on 4/29/08.
41Featuring
- Genre
- Biography
Credits
- Author
- Letters
- Typeset
Notes
Biographies for Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Jim Mooney, Win Mortimer, Charles Paris, Lew Sayre Schwartz & Dick Sprang. Some biographical material provided by Craig Delich and Dr. Jerry Bails.
42Featuring
- Feature
- Batman and Robin
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Scarface Carson; Riddler; Joker
Credits
- Art
- Dick Sprang
Win Mortimer - Colours
- Jamison (color reconstruction)
- Editing
- Jack Schiff (original)
Reprint history
Notes
Back cover
Notes
Black-and-white reconstruction by Rick Keene.
Series design by Alex Jay/Studio J.
Publication design by Robbie Biederman.
Indicia
The indicia for this issue is not recorded. The identified publisher might be an associated or parent company, rather than the specific listed publisher.