Title: Batman #257
Cover Date: Jul/Aug 1974
Release Date: April 30, 1974
Format: 96 Squarebound Pages
Cover Price: $0.60
Collection Group: 100-Page Super Spectacular (Series "DC")
Contents: "The Batman and Robin in Tales of Comedy and Tragedy"

Stories:

• Batman: "Hail Emperor Penguin" (20 pages)
  Dennis J. O'Neil (Writer) Irving H. Novick (Penciller) Dick Giordano (Inker)

• Batman: "Hunt for a Robin-Killer" (14 pages)
  Gardner F. Fox (Writer) Gil Kane (Penciller) Sid Greene (Inker)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #374 (1968)

• Batman: "Ally Babble and the Fourteen Peeves" (12 pages)
  Bill Finger (Writer) Dick Sprang (Artist)
  Reprinted From: Batman #30 (1945)

• Alfred Beagle: "Conversational Clue" (4 pages)
  Mort Weisinger (Writer) Jerry Robinson (Artist)
  Reprinted From: Batman #22 (1944)

• Batman: "Die Small -- Die Big" (15 pages)
  Robert Kanigher (Writer) Bob Brown (Penciller) Joe Giella (Inker)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #385 (1969)

• Batman: "Rackety-Rax Racket" (12 pages)
  Don Cameron (Writer) Dick Sprang (Artist)
  Reprinted From: Batman #32 (1945)

Features:

• "The Penguin's Unique Umbrellas" (2 Pages)
  (Details the use of Penguin's umbrellas)
• "Bat-Puzzle" (1 Page)
  (Crossword puzzle)
• "Casey the Cop" (1 Page)
  (by Henry Boltinoff)
• "Man Without Fingerprints" (1 Page)
  (Filler)
• "Letters to the Batman" (2 Pages)
  (Letters Page)