Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Batman Vol. 4 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2009
On Sale Date: July 22, 2009 Direct Market Date July 22, 2009
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Direct Market Date July 22, 2009
Source: Previews, #247

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 520
Editor: Sean Mackiewicz

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Marital-Bliss Miss"
Pages: 15

Feature(s):
Batman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Bob Brown
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #380 (1968)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Brave and Bold #80; next appearance in Batman #206)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Teen Titans #17; next appearance in Batman #206)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Detective Comics #379; next appearance in Detective Comics #381)
• Harriet Cooper (last appearance in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #111; next appearance in Batman Family #4)

Villain(s)

• James Jenkins (a former bank robber; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Eugene Driscoll (a bank president; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Virginia Jenkins (next appearance in Detective Comics #391)
• Mrs. Hawkins (an administrator at Gotham High School; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Virginia "Ginny" Jenkins barges in to Wayne Manor and claims to be married to Bruce Wayne. Bruce plays along with her so that he can learn the reason for her actions. Ginny fears that her brother Jim wants to kill Bruce, so she pretends to be married to him to save his life.

Batman begins investigating Jim Jenkins to learn his reasons for wanting Bruce dead. He finds that Jenkins was turned down for a Wayne Foundation grant several times by bank president and Foundation treasurer Eugene Driscoll. When Batman visits Jenkins's office, he is attacked and Jim is killed by a third party.

Batman exposes Driscoll as the killer after proving that the two men had once attempted a bank robbery together. Jenkins wanted to kill Bruce, so that Driscoll would gain full control of the Foundation funds, and he could blackmail his former partner for millions. Driscoll is caught, and Bruce's marriage hoax is ended.