Comic Title: Batman #156
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: June 1963
On Sale Date: April 18, 1963 Newsstand Date April 18, 1963
Source: House Ad, Blackhawk #185, Page 19

Copyright Date April 18, 1963
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1963

Frequency: Monthly, with the exception of Jan., April, July, and Oct.
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "Robin Dies at Dawn"
Pages: 17

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Penciller: Sheldon Moldoff
Inker: Charles Paris

Reprinted In:
Batman #185 (1966)
Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told HC (1988)
Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told TPB (1989)
Batman:The Greatest Stories Ever Told Vol. 1 TPB (2005)
Batman:The Black Casebook TPB (2009)
Robin, the Boy Wonder:A Celebration of 75 Years HC (2015)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #156; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #134)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #156; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #134)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Detective Comics #315; next appearance in Detective Comics #317)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Batman #155; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #134)
• Ace the Bat-Hound (last appearance in Batman #156; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #134)

Villain(s)

• The Gorilla Gang (Luke named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An army doctor and officer (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from the first story of Batman #156.

Synopsis:
After undergoing an army experiment to test the effects of solitude on the mind, Batman begins to have hallucinations. He imagine Robin is killed on an alien world. When real life events begin to remind Batman of his hallucinated experience, he is unable to fight crime.

Batman retires, leaving Robin to carry on for him. However, when the Boy Wonder is captured by the Gorilla Gang, Batman returns to action to save his partner from execution. The experience successfully cures Batman of his hallucinations.