Comic Title: Showcase Presents the Brave and the Bold Batman Team-Ups Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: January 24, 2007 Direct Market Date January 24, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #10 (#214)

Direct Market Date January 24, 2007
Source: Usenet, New Releases List for Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 528
Editor: Bob Joy

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Batman Versus Eclipso"
Pages: 25

Feature(s):
Batman (of Earth-1)
Eclipso (of Earth-1)

Writer: Bob Haney
Artist: J. Winslow Mortimer

Reprinted From:
Brave and the Bold #64 (1966)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #155; next appearance in Detective Comics #348)
• Eclipso (last appearance in House of Secrets #76; next appearance in House of Secrets #77)

Supporting Character(s)

• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #155; next appearance in Batman #179)
• Professor Simon Bennett (last appearance in House of Secrets #76; next appearance in House of Secrets #77)
• Mona Bennett (last appearance in House of Secrets #76; next appearance in House of Secrets #77)

Villain(s)

• Queen Bee (Marcia Monroe; not to be confused with Justice League foe, Zazzala; no further appearances)
• Cyclops (a criminal organization; Frankie Malone and Gorilla Grimes named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Nicky Jarvis (Marcia's former boyfriend; dies in flashback; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman rescues a young woman on the pier, who turns out to be Marica Monroe his former fiancee. Marcia was a wealthy socialite who met Batman and fell in love with him, but then left before they were to be married. She has returned to Gotham, so that Batman can replace a jewel that was stolen by her dead boyfriend from a museum. Batman agrees to replace the jewel, but a photograph is turned over to police implicating Batman in the jewel's theft. Commissioner Gordon is forced to arrest Batman.

Eclipso then joins Marcia, in her own costumed identity as Queen Bee, in a massive crime wave. Batman escapes prison and locates the gang's hide-out inside the Apis Enterprises skyscraper. Eclipso tries to kill Batman, which turns Marcia against him. She explains that she is cooperating with the criminals in order to save her father. She returns the stolen jewel to Batman, then disappears.

Batman escapes the building through a window. Eclipso pursues him using his black diamond energy blasts. Eclipso's other self, Bruce Gordon, arrives on the scene and uses a burst of light to blind everyone and return Eclipso to his body. Batman is cleared by police for the jewel theft, and Bruce Gordon leaves the scene maintaining his secret.