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A MORRISON MONDAYS BONUS! Including the later Titan editions…

By BILL MORRISON

For this week’s MORRISON MONDAYS column, I took a deep dive into Signet’s 1966 Batman paperback anthology collections, which were for years the only such books you could get your hands on. I also covered the UK Titan Books editions, which came out in 1988-90.

But no such exploration would be a complete without a thorough table of contents. We here at 13th Dimension aim to please, so for the curious completist, here are the contents of all nine paperbacks — compiled by yours truly.

Dates are original publication dates:

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BATMAN (Signet, 1966)

“The LEGEND of The BATMAN – WHO HE IS AND HOW HE CAME TO BE!” from Batman #1, Spring 1940

“The WEB OF DOOM!” from Batman #90, March 1955

“FAN-MAIL OF DANGER!” from Batman #92, June 1955

“THE CRAZY CRIME CLOWN!” from Batman #74, December 1952 – January 1953

“THE CRIME PREDICTOR” from Batman #77, June – July 1953

“The MAN WHO COULD CHANGE FINGERPRINTS!” from Batman #82, March 1954

“The TESTING of BATMAN!” from Batman #83, April 1954

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BATMAN vs. THE JOKER (Signet, 1966)

“THE CHALLENGE OF THE JOKER” from Batman #136, December 1960

“The JOKER’S WINNING TEAM!” from Batman #86, September 1954

“The JOKER’S MILLIONS!” from Detective Comics #180, February 1952

“The JOKER’S JOURNAL!” from Detective Comics #193, March 1953

“BATMAN – CLOWN OF CRIME!” from Batman #85, August 1954

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BATMAN vs. THE PENGUIN (Signet, 1966)

“The PARASOLS of PLUNDER” from Batman #70, April – May 1952

“THE GOLDEN EGGS! from Batman #99, April 1956

“The PENGUIN’S FABULOUS FOWLS!” from Batman #76, April – May 1953

“The RETURN of the PENGUIN” from Batman #155, May 1963 (First Silver-Age Penguin appearance!)

“The SLEEPING BEAUTIES OF GOTHAM CITY!” from Batman #84, June 1954

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BATMAN AND ROBIN (Titan Books, 1988)

Same contents as Signet’s BATMAN, minus “FAN-MAIL OF DANGER!” and “The TESTING of BATMAN!”

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BATMAN Versus THE JOKER (Titan Books, 1988)

Same contents as Signet’s BATMAN vs. THE JOKER, minus “The JOKER’S WINNING TEAM!”

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BATMAN Versus THE PENGUIN (Titan Books, 1988)

Same contents as Signet’s BATMAN vs. THE PENGUIN, minus “The SLEEPING BEAUTIES OF GOTHAM CITY!”

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BATMAN Versus CATWOMAN (Titan Books, 1989)

“The KING of the CATS!” from Batman #69, February – March 1952

“The SLEEPING BEAUTIES OF GOTHAM CITY!” from Batman #84, June 1954

“The JUNGLE CAT-QUEEN!” from Detective Comics #211, September 1954

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BATMAN: RETURN OF THE JOKER (Titan Books, 1989)

Untitled first appearance of the Joker from Batman #1, Spring 1940

“The JOKER’S UTILITY BELT!” from Batman #73, October 1952

“BATMAN’S SUPER PARTNER” from Batman #127, October 1959

“The JOKER’S GREATEST TRIUMPH” from Batman #148, June 1962

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BATMAN AND SUPERMAN (Titan Books, 1990)

“The FEDERATION of BIZARRO IDIOTS!” from World’s Finest Comics #156, March 1966

“The MENACE of SUPERMAN’S PET” from World’s Finest Comics # 112, September 1960

“BAT-MITE MEETS MR. MXYZPTLK” from World’s Finest Comics #113, November 1960

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MORE

— Signet’s Lovable 1966 BATMAN Reprint Paperbacks Were All We Had — But They Were a Goldmine. Click here.

— THE BATMAN ’66 MOVIE AT 60: The Flick’s Groovy Novelization Is Anything But a Bomb. Click here.