Comic Title: Batman #26
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Dec/Jan 1944
Approx. On Sale Date: October 11, 1944 Copyright Date October 7, 1944
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1944
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "Crime Comes to Lost Mesa"
Pages: 11

Feature(s):
Batman (of Earth-2)

Writer: Don Cameron
Artist: Dick Sprang

Reprinted In:
Batman:The Dark Knight Archives Vol. 7 HC (2011)
Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 4 HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #26; next appearance in Detective Comics #94)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #26; next appearance in Detective Comics #94)

Villain(s)

• Monk Bardo and Randy Roose (escaped convicts; no further appearances)
• Mordu (a medicine man; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Nachee and Tolto (an indian boy and chief; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Monk Bardo and Randy Roose escape from prison. They hide out in the mesas inhabited by the Pueblo indians. Batman and Robin follow the crooks and are brought into a Pueblo city by Nachee, a young boy. Mordu the tribal medicine man has thrown in with the crooks in order to take over control of the tribe from Chief Tolto. Batman and Robin are thrown in a pit and set to be executed, but Nachee helps them escape. The Caped Crusaders expose Mordu's plot and take the crooks back into custody. They leave the tribe as friends.