Comic Title: Batman Annual #11
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1987
On Sale Date: April 28, 1987 Newsstand Date April 28, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #38

Newsstand Date April 30, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696

Shipping Date April 7, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696

Copyright Date April 7, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Newsstand Date April 23, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #114

Shipping Date March 31, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #114

Cover Price: $1.25
Page Count: 48
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Love Bird"
Pages: 15

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Max Allan Collins
Artist: Norm Breyfogle
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told Vol. 2 TPB (1992)
Batman:Second Chances TPB (2015)
Legends of the Dark Knight:Norm Breyfogle Vol. 1 HC (2015)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman Annual #11; next appearance in Fury of Firestorm #64)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman Annual #13; next appearance in Batman #412)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman Annual #11; next appearance in Vigilante #44)

Villain(s)

• Penguin (last appearance in Detective Comics #568; next appearance in Suicide Squad #3)
• A gang of liquor store bandits (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Members of a parole board (no further appearances)
• Dovina Partridge (no further appearances)
• Several ex-cons (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Despite Batman's testimony before a parole board, the Penguin is released from prison. He begins living with Dovina Partridge, a bird lover he met through an ornithology magazine. Dovina tells the Penguin that he must remain honest for their relationship to work. Penguin then opens an umbrella factory.

Batman keeps watch, but can find no evidence that the Penguin has returned to crime. However, he notices that the factory guards are heavily armed ex-cons. Batman enters the factory expecting to find an illegal operation. However, the Penguin is conducting honest business. However, by hiring the ex-cons he is in violation of his parole.

This time Batman makes a case to the parole board that the Penguin should be allowed to go free. Once again the board does not listen, and the Penguin is sent back to prison. Batman is able to arrange for Dovina to visit him.