Comic Title: Batman #230
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: March 1971
On Sale Date: January 21, 1971 Copyright Date January 21, 1971
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1971


Frequency: Monthly, with the exception of April and October
Cover Price: $0.15
Page Count: 32
Contains: Ownership Statement
Circulation: 294024
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "Take-Over of Paradise"
Pages: 15

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

Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Irving H. Novick
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: John Costanza

Reprinted In:
Showcase Presents:Batman Vol. 6 TPB (2016)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #408; next appearance in Flash #204)

Supporting Character(s)

• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Brave & the Bold #94; next appearance in Detective Comics #412)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Batman #227; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #202)

Villain(s)

• The Brave Barons (Rap, Shades, Mouse and Kitten; a street gang; Rap dies in this story; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman helps to ease tensions between two rival street gangs led by Rap and Shades. He gets them to combine their efforts to clean up their community. The gang, now called the Brave Barons, grows tired of the unfulfilled promises of affordable housing. They decide to take over a building, wiring it to explode if authorities interfere.

Batman is called in to defuse the situation. However, the two former leaders quarrel over their next course of action. When Batman arrives Rap is dead, and Shades is the suspected killer. Batman finds Shades and exposes the real killers within the gang. The standoff ends with the guilty parties in custody.