Detective Comics #41

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Batman & Robin: "The Masked Menace of the Boys' School"

After learning of a mysterious murder, Dick Grayson) decides to enroll in an all-boys school where the murder took place. Just then, a boy goes missing. Dick learns that the suspected culprit was an escapee from an insane asylum. During his investigations as Robin, he comes across a masked figure, but he can't capture the criminal.

Some time later, Robin finally finds the insane fugitive and captures him. However, the case is not yet solved as the headmaster of the school, Blake, turns up dead in his office. Robin soon realizes that the murderer is actually Graves, the art teacher at the boys' school. Robin then finds the missing boy and captures Graves and his men with some help from Batman). | Appearing1 = **Featured Characters:** * Batman) * Robin) **Antagonists:** * Mister Blake (a counterfeiter) * Mister Graves (a counterfeiter) **Other Characters:** * Gotham City Police Department * Greer * Hodges * Ted Spencer **Locations:** * Gotham City **Blake's Boys' School **Items:** * Utility Belt

| Writer2_1 = Jerry Siegel | Penciler2_1 = Maurice Kashuba | Inker2_1 = Maurice Kashuba | StoryTitle2 = Bart Regan, Spy: "Norman Novaney" | Synopsis2 = | Appearing2 = **Featured Characters:** * Bart Regan) **Antagonists:** * Norman Novaney, notorious international spy ** many hench **Locations:** * Military Research Building * Waterfront and Harbor * U.S. Spy Headquarters **Vehicles:** * Taxi, with running boards * Motorboat * Yacht

| Writer3_1 = Ed Winiarski | Penciler3_1 = Ed Winiarski | Inker3_1 = Ed Winiarski | StoryTitle3 = Red Logan, Ace Reporter: "Bugsie Goron" | Synopsis3 = Bugsie Goron is tried and convicted, and sentenced to be executed on June 16th. He raves and threatens to return from the dead to get revenge. At the scheduled time, he's electrocuted. That very evening Goron appears in the home of the convicting jury's foreman, shoots him twice, and vanishes. At a Bar Association banquet, Goron appears again, and guns down the prosecuting attorney.

Red Logan is assigned to look into this, and his review of the paper's old stories about Bugsie Goron shows that for all his many murders, Goron always had a perfect alibi. From this, Red eventually figures out that Bugsie Goron had a twin, who is now carrying out the murders. At the probable next victim's home, Red and Ivan set an ambush, and catch the "ghost killer." | Appearing3 = **Featured Characters:** * Red Logan) **Supporting Characters:** * "Chief", Editor * Ivan **Antagonists:** * Bugsie Goron, gangster * John Goron, murderer **Other Characters:** * Judge Carter ** Evans, his butler * John Cook, Jury Foreman * District Attorney Plavin * twin blonde ladies **Locations:** * New York City See Notes. ** Courthouse ** Prison ** "Times-Courier" office ** City Hall ** Judge Carter's Residence

| Writer4_1 = Jack Lehti | Penciler4_1 = Jack Lehti | Inker4_1 = Jack Lehti | StoryTitle4 = The Crimson Avenger is "Wanted For Murder" | Synopsis4 = At midnight on the waterfront, criminals are loading cargo onto trucks when two policemen stop by to confront them. The criminals discard their cargo, and shoot one cop, before fleeing on a boat. Soon the Crimson Avenger) emerges, and approaches one of the crates left behind by the smugglers. He opens it, to find a dead body inside. Suddenly, the police arrive, find the dead cop, see the cloaked vigilante, and draw all the wrong conclusions. But the Avenger makes it to his waiting car, and is driven away by Wing How).

The next day, at the Globe-Leader, Mac the editor gives Lee Travis the publisher his headlines for the day, one of them being about the Crimson's encounter with the police. Lee instructs Mac to find more news on this story. As soon as he's gone, Lee phones Wing, and sends him to Chinatown, to visit his relatives and ask them if they know anything about the smuggling ring. This pays off, and that night Crimson and Wing prepare to raid the smugglers' hideout. While stealthily approaching the place, they are jumped and captured, by some of the same gang. The boss decides that the two vigilantes need to be killed, so he pulls out a sword and prepares to execute them both. But the Crimson has already pulled out a lighter, and burns off the rope, and dodges the sword stroke, then kicks the boss with both feet. Once free, Crimson pulls out his gas gun and sprays the criminals, then frees Wing. Crimson directs Wing to tie up the criminals and inform the police.

The next day, the headline of the Globe-Leader newspaper reads: "CRIMSON NABS GANG." | Appearing4 = **Featured Characters:** * Crimson Avenger (Lee Travis)) **Supporting Characters:** * Wing) * Mac, editor **Antagonists:** * Smugglers **Other Characters:** * Mac * New York City Police Department ** Mike **Locations:** * New York City ** Globe Leader, newspaper office ** Waterfront ** Chinatown

| Writer5_1 = Gardner Fox | Penciler5_1 = Fred Guardineer | Inker5_1 = Fred Guardineer | Letterer5_1 = Fred Guardineer | StoryTitle5 = Speed Saunders, Ace Investigator: "The Railroad Mystery" | Synopsis5 = | Appearing5 = **Featured Characters:** * Speed Saunders) **Antagonists:** * gang **Other Characters:** * Dick **Locations:** * New York City

| Writer6_1 = | Penciler6_1 = Don Lynch | Inker6_1 = Don Lynch | StoryTitle6 = Steve Malone: "The Incan Murder" | Synopsis6 = | Appearing6 = **Featured Characters:** * Steve Malone) **Supporting Characters:** * **Antagonists:** * Atala D'esta (Incan worshipper) **Other Characters:** * Doctor Drake * Soames, art dealer **Locations:** * New York City

| Writer7_1 = Chad Grothkopf | Penciler7_1 = Chad Grothkopf | Inker7_1 = Chad Grothkopf | StoryTitle7 = Cliff Crosby: "The Invisible Man" | Synopsis7 = An invisible murderer is at large in New York City. Cliff Crosby defeats him. | Appearing7 = **Featured Characters:** * Cliff Crosby) **Supporting Characters:** * Inspector Doyle **Antagonists:** * The Invisible Man (Doctor Ellis)) **Locations:** * New York City ** Chinatown

| Writer8_1 = Jerry Siegel | Penciler8_1 = Howard Sherman | Inker8_1 = Howard Sherman | StoryTitle8 = Slam Bradley: "The Heiress" | Synopsis8 = | Appearing8 = **Featured Characters:** * Slam Bradley) **Supporting Characters:** * Shorty Morgan) **Antagonists:** * Mister Clayton **Other Characters:** * Lucille Danvers **Locations:** * New York City

| Notes = * Published by Detective Comics, Inc. * **Batman:** "The Masked Menace of the Boys School" is reprinted in *Batman Archives*, Volume 1) and Batman Chronicles Vol 2 (Collected). ** This is the first Robin solo story. * First issue, of Detective Comics, for Ed Winiarski art on **Red Logan**. Winiarski also wrote and drew this feature in More Fun Comics #s 31 ~ 37, 39, & 40. ** Starting this issue, Red and Ivan are back in the USA, after many adventures in London. ** After this issue, Ivan no longer appears nor is mentioned. | Trivia = | Recommended = | Links =

Creative credits

Writers: Bill Finger, Jerry Siegel, Ed Winiarski, Jack Lehti, Gardner Fox, Chad Grothkopf, Jerry Siegel

Interior art: Bob Kane, Maurice Kashuba, Ed Winiarski, Jack Lehti, Fred Guardineer, Don Lynch, Chad Grothkopf, Howard Sherman

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