Comic Title: Batman in the Fifties TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2021
On Sale Date: September 7, 2021 Direct Market Date September 8, 2021
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Direct Market Date September 7, 2021
Source: DC Connect, #13

Direct Market Date September 7, 2021
Source: Panels, July 2021

Cover Price: $29.99
Page Count: 336
Editor: Reza Lokman

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The True History of Superman and Batman"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Penciller: Dick Sprang
Inker: Stan Kaye

Reprinted From:
World's Finest Comics #81 (1956)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #214; next appearance in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #12)
• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #229; next appearance in Batman #99)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #229; next appearance in Batman #99)
• Lois Lane (last appearance in Action Comics #214; next appearance in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #12)
• Perry White (last appearance in Action Comics #214; next appearance in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #12)

Villain(s)

• Shark Slaney’s gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ka Thar (a historian from the future; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Superman and Batman are visited by Ka Thar, a historian from the year 5956. Ka Thar shows them a book recounting the deeds accomplished by the heroes. Superman explains that the details are wrong.

Ka Thar then blackmails the heroes into redoing the feats in the same manner described in the book. If they do not do as ordered, Ka Thar threatens to expose their secret identities. After redoing several tasks, Batman deduces that Ka Thar’s threat is empty. However, each task has now beeen done as described, so the historian returns to his own time.