Comic Title: Batman #52
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Apr/May 1949
Approx. On Sale Date: February 11, 1949 Copyright Date February 9, 1949
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1949
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: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Happy Victims"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Penciller: Lew Sayre Schwartz
Inker: Charles Paris

Reprinted In:
Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 6 HC (2019)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #52; next appearance in Detective Comics #146)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #52; next appearance in Detective Comics #146)
• Alfred Beagle (last appearance in Batman #52; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #93)

Villain(s)

• Joker (last appearance in Batman #50; next appearance in Batman #53)
• Joker's henchmen (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Mrs. Carlin, Mr. Stark, and Nick Weston (the Joker's victims; no further appearances)

Comments:
The Joker drives the Jokermobile, a copy of the Batmobile with the Joker's face on the front, in this story.

Synopsis:
The Joker begins a series of crimes in which his robbery victims refuse to press charges because they found his crime funny. Suspicious, Batman sets up Bruce Wayne as the next victim. As expected the Joker calls Wayne and tells him to laugh. In return Joker promises to return twice what he stole. Bruce complies which puzzles Dick Grayson.

Dick becomes Robin and attempts to follow the Joker, but he is captured. Batman rescues him, then explains that the Joker was running a blackmail scheme on other thieves. He pretended that Bruce was an art thief, so that the Joker would target him. Once Batman and Robin escape the Joker's death trap, they apprehend the crook.