Comic Title: Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 6 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2019
On Sale Date: December 5, 2018 Direct Market Date December 5, 2018
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Direct Market Date November 14, 2018
Source: Previews, #356

Direct Market Date November 14, 2018
Source: DC Previews, #1

Cover Price: $125.00
Page Count: 792
Editor: Alex Galer

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Batman Under the Sea"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Jim Mooney

Reprinted From:
Batman #53 (1949)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #53; next appearance in Detective Comics #148)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #53; next appearance in Detective Comics #148)

Villain(s)

• Phaeton (a smuggler; no further appearances)
• Stack Hawley (a gangster; no further appearances)
• Gerun and Phaeton's men (dream appearance)

Other Character(s)

• Theta (dream appearance)
• Sarin and the sea people (dream appearance)

Comments:
The majority of this story occurs in Batman's dream.

Synopsis:
Batman and Robin follow Mr. Phaeton, a man in a wheelchair, when they see him in the company of gangster Stack Hawley. Robin suggests that Phaeton could really be a merman, but Batman dismisses the theory. Batman is the injured in the water, when the crooks fire on his boat.

When Batman regains consciousness he discovers that he has been transformed into a merman himself by Theta, the chief scientist of the sea people. She explains that Phaeton is one of her people and is trying to steal their treasure. Batman battles Phaeton underwater, and Theta learns the secret to give mermen human legs. Before she dies at Phaeton's hands, she changes Batman back into a man.

Batman recovers from the accident and awakens in the hospital. Robin thinks Batman's story was just a dream. Batman and Robin then defeat Phaeton, who is not a merman at all, but he is a jewel smuggler. After the adventure Batman still wonders if his experience as a merman was only a dream.