Comic Title: Batman Archives Vol. 8 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2012
On Sale Date: June 20, 2012 Direct Market Date June 20, 2012
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Direct Market Date June 27, 2012
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Direct Market Date April 25, 2012
Source: Previews, #276

Cover Price: $59.99
Page Count: 224

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Title: "Bruce Wayne, Private Detective"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Batman (of Earth-2)

Penciller: Lew Sayre Schwartz
Inker: Charles Paris

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #155 (1950)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #154; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #44)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #100; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #44)
• Vicki Vale (last appearance in Batman #56; next appearance in Detective Comics #157)

Villain(s)

• Frank Kelcey and Tilley (an architect and a lawyer; no further appearances)
• Tracks Carlin (a smuggler; in flashback; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ed Wedge (a private detective; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Bruce Wayne becomes a private detective while Vicki Vale's detective friend Ed Wedge is in the hospital. Two men approach Bruce asking him to obtain a model train that Batman has kept as a trophy from a previous case. Suspicious, Bruce delivers a phony train to one of the men, Frank Kelcy. Kelcy realizes the train is a fake, then joins forces with Tilley, the lawyer of the train's former owner Tracks Carlin. Batman apprehends the men as they try to steal another copy of the train from Bruce Wayne's office. A later examination of the real model reveals that Carlin used the wire on the train to make recordings detailing the criminals deeds of Tilley, Kelcey, and others.