Comic Title: Batman #215
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: September 1969
On Sale Date: July 15, 1969 Copyright Date July 15, 1969
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1969

Newsstand Date July 15, 1969
Source: Newsdealer Magazine, V24 #5

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

Title: "Call Me Master"
Pages: 24

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

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

Reprinted In:
Showcase Presents:Batman Vol. 4 TPB (2009)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #390; next appearance in Detective Comics #391)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #391; next appearance in Teen Titans #23)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Batman #214; next appearance in Batman #216)

Villain(s)

• Myron Mycroft (no further appearances)
• Ears Logan, Fine-Finger Fowler, Jigger, and various hoods (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Jim Carlyle, Andrew Barclay, Clem Sterling, Emil Hartz, and other members of a civic counsel (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman and Robin thwart a series of robberies in which the victims help the robbers. Batman begins to suspect that the men have been hypnotized when he receives a mysterious phone call as Bruce Wayne. Bruce then helps crooks with another robbery. Robin stops the crime, and Bruce can't explain his actions.

Batman deduces that all of the victims including him are part of a civic counsel. He monitors each member the following evening. When the mystery caller targets Myron Mycroft, Batman hopes to stop the crime. Instead, he is nearly killed in an ambush. He does save Mycroft, who learns that Batman is following orders.

Mycroft is actually the master behind the crimes. Seeking to prove Batman is under his control he orders Batman to blow up Wayne Manor with explosives. The Caped Crusader complies with the order, but Robin and Alfred have replaced the explosives with smoke bombs. Batman finally realizes that a watch given to him by Mycroft at the counsel meeting contains a device which makes him follow orders. He removes the watch, then apprehends Mycroft.