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Detective Comics #27 (Comic Book)

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 Detective Comics #27 is an early issue of DC Comics long-running Detective Comics series, released around May 1939 during the beginning of The Golden Age of Comic Books, with art by Bob Kane and writing by an uncredited Bill Finger. Designed as an anthology comic as many other comic books of the time were, it is notable for containing the short story "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate", the debut comic tale of one of the most iconic superheroes of all time, Batman.The story begins with Commissioner Gordon hanging out with wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne, discussing the subject of the mysterious figure known as "The Bat-Man" when Gordon gets a sudden phone call about the Chemical king, Lambert, having been stabbed to death in his mission and that his son's fingerprints were all over the knife. Gordon invites Wayne to come along, and he obliges. They arrive at the scene of the crime, and while its being investigated, Lambert's son (also named Lambert) is pressed for information. The frightened young man gives his version of the events; having heard a groan from the family library he was passing by, he came across his dying father, having been stabbed by an unknown foe who made out the window after pillaging the nearby safe. As he pulled the dagger out of his fathers body, the elder Lambert's feebly murmured the words "...contract...contract...ohhhh!" before dying right there. Gordon grills him further, asking if his father had any potential enemies or people interested in his business practices. Lambert namedrops three associates, Alfred Stryker, Paul Rogers, and Steve Crane. As if by chance, Steve Crane calls Gordon on the phone. Lambert told Crane that he had received a death threat the previous day. Crane has received a similar death threat, and asks for police protection. Bruce Wayne decides to go home, and Gordon rushes over to the Crane residence.Steven Crane is killed by a gunman who enters through the window. The thug and his partner steal a paper from Crane and climb onto the roof. They are confronted by a figure they recognize as the Bat-Man, standing in the moonlight. The Bat-Man punches the first thug out, then grabs the second one in a headlock and throws him off the second-story roof. He grabs the paper and escapes as Gordon is pulling up. The GCPD try to arrest the Bat-Man, but they are unable to catch him. Gordon learns that Crane has been murdered, and moves on to the next business partner. The Bat-Man smiles when he reads the paper he stole, and drives off in his automobile.Paul Rogers visits the laboratory of Alfred Stryker, having learned of Lambert's death by news broadcast. Stryker's assistant Jennings clubs Rogers over the head and ties him up. Jennings explains that he will lower a gas chamber over Rogers and kill him the same way he puts animals to sleep. Jennings leaves to activate the gas. The Bat-Man leaps into the room through an open transom. The Bat-Man grabs a wrench and dives inside the gas chamber before it closes.He plugs the gas jet with a handkerchief, and busts through the glass with his wrench. Jennings returns and tries to pull a gun on the Bat-Man, but the Bat-Man punches him in the face really hard. Alfred Stryker enters and demands to know what happened. When Rogers explains that Jennings tried to kill him, Stryker pulls out a knife to finish the job. The Bat-Man is hiding in the shadows, and he grabs Stryker from behind to stop him.The Bat-Man explains to Rogers that they were all partners in the Apex Chemical Corporation. Stryker had made secret contracts with all of them to pay them a sum of money each year until he owned the business. He grew tired of waiting and decided to kill them so he wouldn't have to pay. Stryker breaks out of the Bat-Man's grip and pulls a gun on him. The Bat-Man immediately punches Stryker so hard in the face that he drop the gun, falls back, breaks through a railing and falls into a tank of acid. The Bat-Man remarks that this is a fitting end for his kind, and leaves via transom. Rogers tries to thank the Bat-Man, but he is already gone.Later at his house, Commissioner Gordon relates what had happened to Bruce Wayne. Bruce brushes it off as a lovely fairy tale, and leaves. Gordon then muses to himself:"Bruce Wayne is a nice young chap - but he certainly must lead a boring life... seems disinterested in everything."Bruce returns home to Wayne Manor, where it's then revealed to the reader that he is in fact, the Bat-Man.Tropes Exclusive To The Original 1939 Version of "The Case Of The Chemical Syndicate":
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