Comic Title: Detective Comics #37
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: March 1940
Approx. On Sale Date: February 6, 1940 Copyright Date February 2, 1940
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1940
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: (The Screaming House)
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Bob Kane

Reprinted In:
Batman #237 (1971)
Batman Archives Vol. 1 HC (1990)
Batman Chronicles Vol. 1 TPB (2005)
Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2016)
Batman:The Golden Age Vol. 1 TPB (2016)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #36; next appearance in Detective Comics #38)

Villain(s)

• Count Grutt (alias the Head, alias Elias Turg; a foreign spy; no further appearances)
• Three thugs (die in this story; no further appearances)
• Several saboteurs (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Joey (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman hears screams coming from an old house and investigates. Inside a man, Joey, is being beaten. Batman knocks out the thugs, but Joey knocks him out and kills the thugs. Batman follows Joey’s trail to a man named Turg, who kills Joey for leading the Batman to them.

Batman learns that Turg and the gang plan to destroy a ship as they are foreign spies. Batman prevents the sabotage and defeats the gang. Then the Caped Crusader follows clues to the Head, Count Grutt, who is also Elias Turg. Batman battles Grutt who falls upon his own sword and dies.