Cover Date: July 1939
Plot Overview: Dr. Death and has minion Jabah plan a trap for Batman. They put an ad in the paper for Batman to see and when he arrives Jabah shoots him in the shoulder. Batman escapes with the help of gas. Dr. Death is not pleased with this outcome but sends Jabah out to kill another doctor.
Bruce Wayne manages to save the man and follows Jabah back to Dr. Death. Batman chases Dr. Death and as a result Dr. Death is killed in a fire.
My Take: That was a really short review of the plot but there really was barely anything to this week. There was literally an entire page of Batman climbing a wall. So this issue was 10 pages of a lot of filler and a little bit of plot.
What can I say about this issue? It was bad, brutally bad. It was poorly written, unoriginal and just not worth your time. If you want good stories in this vein, go find the Shadow radio show from this era. It's better written and it has Orson Welles doing the early episodes.
This is just a mess. The art is bad, the writing is clunky and poorly executed and the stories have no real value on a literary level. I can see why comics were seen to be as child fodder around this time. I really don't know what else to say about it. It's so bad that it's hard to even point to specific things in it that were wrong. This issue actually made me regret deciding to do this feature on this blog. I really hope this gets better soon.
Some points of interest in this issue. Batman has a utility belt now. He stored some gas pellets in his belt in this issue.
This gets an F for being a throughly awful experience from start to finish.
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