Comic Title: Batman Archives Vol. 5 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2001
On Sale Date: March 14, 2001 Direct Market Date March 14, 2001
Source: Previews, Vol. 11 #1 (#145)

Direct Market Date March 14, 2001
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, March 14, 2001

Direct Market Date March 14, 2001
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: March 14

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 228
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Crime on the Half-Shell"
Pages: 11

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Penciller: Dick Sprang
Inker: Gene McDonald

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #113 (1946)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #112; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #23)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #112; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #23)

Villain(s)

• Blackhand and his gang (racketeers; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Captain Jibbs and Josephine "Jo" Jibbs (a sailor and his daughter; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman and Robin battle the racketeer Blackhand on the docks. They are beaten and taken prisoner aboard the crook's boat. Batman breaks free, but the boat crashes into an oyster boat captained by Jo Jibbs. The crooks escapes in the confusion.

Batman learns from Jo, who has taken over the oyster dredging vessel from her blind father, that the crooks have been targeting the oyster boats and stealing their haul. Batman stays aboard, and when Blackhand strikes again, he is ready.

However, Batman is knocked out allowing the crook to escape again, this time with Jo as his prisoner. Jo signs a ransom note, but she makes braille imprints for her father, so that Batman can track down Blackhand and the other pirates.