Comic Title: Batman #1
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Spring 1940
On Sale Date: April 25, 1940 Newsstand Date April 25, 1940
Source: House Ad, Detective Comics #39, Page 13

Copyright Date April 24, 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: Quarterly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: (The Cat)
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Bob Kane

Reprinted In:
Famous First Edition F-5 (1974)
Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told Vol. 2 TPB (1992)
Batman:The Dark Knight Archives Vol. 1 HC (1992)
Millennium Edition:Batman 1 (#60) (2001)
Millennium Edition:Batman 1 (#60) [Variant] (2001)
Catwoman:Nine Lives of a Feline Fatale TPB (2004)
Batman Chronicles Vol. 1 TPB (2005)
Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2016)
Catwoman:A Celebration of 75 Years HC (2016)
Batman:The Golden Age Vol. 1 TPB (2016)
Batman:The Bat and the Cat:80 Years of Romance HC (2020)
Batman (Facsimile Edition) #1 (2023)
Batman (Facsimile Edition) #1 [Variant A] (2023)
Batman (Facsimile Edition) #1 [Variant B] (2023)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #1; next appearance in Batman #1)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #1; next appearance in Batman #1)

Villain(s)

• Catwoman (Selina Kyle; known as the Cat in this story; first appearance; next appearance in Batman #2)
• Denny (Martha Travers’s nephew; no further appearances)
• Several unnamed thieves (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Martha Travers, Roger, and Doctor Wallace (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Robin goes undercover aboard a boat to protect the valuable necklace of Martha Travers. When the necklace goes missing there are several suspects. Before any can be questions, several theives board the boat to steal the necklace. With it already stolen they begin searching passengers. Robin takes on the thieves with the help of Batman who arrives late.

Robin tells Batman about the suspects as well as someone known as the Cat. Batman returns to the passengers while Robin pulls the fire alarm. The passengers run out of the main cabin to find it a false alarm, but the brief scare causes the Cat to be revealed in the disguise of an old woman Miss Peggs.

Batman and Robin take her and her partner, Denny, into custody. The beautiful thief offers Batman a partnership which he turns down, but she escapes from them thanks to Batman’s blundering. Robin suspects that his partner may have intentionally allowed her to get away.