Comic Title: Batman #38
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Dec/Jan 1946
Approx. On Sale Date: October 11, 1946 Copyright Date October 9, 1946
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1946-1947
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 Carbon Copy Crimes"
Pages: 11

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Jim Mooney

Reprinted In:
Detective Comics #441 (1974)
Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 5 HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #38; next appearance in Batman #38)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #38; next appearance in Batman #38)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #37; next appearance in Batman #38)

Villain(s)

• An unnamed psychologist (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Pierre Antal (last appearance in Detective Comics #42; no further appearances)
• Jennings (a broker; behind-the-scenes; revealed to be a murder victim; no further appearances)
• An unnamed lawyer and Louisa Ponelle (an opera star; both die in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is a sequel to the first story of Detective Comics #42.

Synopsis:
A series of murders duplicate those surrounding Batman's first big case six years earlier. Portraits are disfigured, then the subjects of the portraits are murdered. Batman decides to use the same trap to catch this killer.

The killer arrives on schedule, but has planned for Batman's arrival on the scene. He takes Batman and Robin prisoner and reveals that he is a psychologist conducting a test. He wants to see if Batman's initial success in his first big case was the secret of his career.

Batman then tricks the killer by revealing his secret identity. A delayed radio broadcast with Batman's voice seems to prove that he is not Batman, and that the psychologist trapped the wrong man. Upset that his test has failed, the psychologist kills himself, ending the case just as the original ended.