Comic Title: Batman Archives Vol. 6 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2005
On Sale Date: June 2, 2005 Direct Market Date June 15, 2005
Source: Previews, Vol. 15 #4 (#196)

Direct Market Date June 2, 2005
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Thursday, June 2, 2005

Cover Price: $49.99
Page Count: 224
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Underworld Surgeon"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Don Cameron
Penciller: Bob Kane
Inker: Charles Paris

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #131 (1948)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (uses the alias Patch Peters in this story; last appearance in Detective Comics #130; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #32)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #76; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #32)

Villain(s)

• Trigger Joe Travers, Big Mike Roper, and their gang (Smoky and Pete named; no further appearances)
• Scarface Nolan (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Steve Travers and Ann (Joe's brother and his girlfriend; no further appearances)
• Dugan (a police officer; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Steve Travers has grown up idolizing his older brother Joe. Joe in turn has paid Steve's way through medical school in order for him to become a plastic surgeon. Steve then learns that Joe is a gangster. Joe forces Steve to become a criminal doctor, giving crooks new faces and fingerprints.

When Batman finds out that Scarface Nolan has had plastic surgery, he disguises himself in order to find the doctor who did the operation. Batman is taken to Travers, but his cover is blown. Robin arrives in time to prevent Batman's death, but the Caped Crusader is wounded while protecting Steve from a bullet.

Steve operates on Batman and saves his life. The criminal doctor then turns himself in, confessing to his deeds. He explains that Joe had threatened to kill his fiancee if Steve didn't cooperate. Steve got even though by making Joe look like Scarface Nolan, so that police would find him. Steve is acquitted thanks to Batman's testimony.