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: "Baffling Deaths of the Crime-Czar"
Pages: 23

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

Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Irving H. Novick
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Batman #212 (1969)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #387; next appearance in Brave & the Bold #84)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #387; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #185)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Detective Comics #387; next appearance in Detective Comics #389)

Villain(s)

• The Silencer, the Dart, and Big Jolt (assassins; no further appearances)
• Quirk and his men (members of an underworld crime syndicate; no further appearances)
• Two unnamed thieves (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Li'l Studs (a crime boss; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Dr. Jennings (no further appearances)
• Dustin (spokesman at an award's dinner; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman and Robin seek to protect a Gotham City crime kingpin Li'l Studs who has recently been released from the hospital. Quirk, a lieutenant of Studs hires three assassins to kill his boss. However, a power outage at the hospital causes an experimental pacemaker in Studs to fail, causing his death.

Since Studs died of natural causes, Quirk refuses to pay the assassins. They decide to go after Batman to earn their pay. Batman outwits the killers and gains evidence that Quirk hired them.