Comic Title: World's Finest Comics #29
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Jul/Aug 1947
Approx. On Sale Date: May 30, 1947 Copyright Date May 28, 1947
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: $0.15
Page Count: 72
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Second Chance"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Don Cameron
Artist: J. Winslow Mortimer

Reprinted In:
Batman:The World's Finest Comics Archives Vol. 2 HC (2004)
Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 5 HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #125; next appearance in Batman #42)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #125; next appearance in Star Spangled Comics #71)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Detective Comics #125; next appearance in Detective Comics #127)

Villain(s)

• Joel Benson (a former nightwatchman; no further appearances)
• Slugs Hamer and his men (no further appearances)
• Chesty Murkel and gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An unnamed man, Martha, Ed Smith, and Mary (a farmer, his wife, son, and daughter; Ed dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Sally (Joel's girlfriend; appears in flashback; no further appearances)
• A prison warden (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
While working as a nightwatchman, Joel Benson is approached by criminal Chesty Murkel to help them in a robbery. Joel agrees, but when Batman arrives he flees. When Batman captures him, Joel is sentenced to death because a guard was killed with his gun.

Joel wishes for a second chance. When he breaks out of prison with another convict, he is injured. He is found by a family of farmer, and the injury has temporarily given him amnesia. Using the name Jim Brown, Joel gets a good job and is happy.

When a newspaper reports that Joel has been cleared of the murder, his memory returns. However, instead of staying clean, he teams up with Chesty in another robbery. This time one of the farmers is killed. Batman captures Joel again, and this time he is sent to the electric chair.