Comic Title: Batman #4
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Winter 1941
On Sale Date: January 13, 1941 Newsstand Date January 13, 1941
Source: House Ad, Detective Comics #48, Page 14,
Superman #9, Page 49

Copyright Date January 15, 1941
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941
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
Contains: Ownership Statement
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: "The Case of the Joker's Crime Circus"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Penciller: Bob Kane
Inker: Jerry Robinson

Reprinted In:
Limited Collectors' Edition C-25 (1974)
Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told HC (1989)
Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told TPB (1989)
Stacked Deck:The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told HC (1990)
Batman:The Dark Knight Archives Vol. 1 HC (1992)
Batman Chronicles Vol. 3 TPB (2007)
Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2016)
Batman:The Golden Age Vol. 2 TPB (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #48; next appearance in Batman #4)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #48; next appearance in Batman #4)

Villain(s)

• Joker (last appearance in Detective Comics #45; next appearance in Batman #5)
• Ajax, Tino, and some acrobats (members of Joker’s crime circus; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• C.R. Darcey and other society members (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
The Joker has survived his fall into the ocean and starts a new gang based on the circus. The gang performs for rich families to case the victims’ houses. Batman makes the connection with a string of robberies and arrives at another performance of the crime circus. Joker escapes back to his hide-out, but Batman follows him there. Batman escapes a trap, then throws the Joker down a long shaft to his apparent death.