Title: Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told TPB
Publication Date: 1989 (On Sale: June 27, 1989)
Format: 352-Page Trade Paperback
Cover Price: $15.95
Collection Group: Batman
Notes: 2 known printings
Contents: 26 assorted Batman stories

Stories:

• Batman: "Batman Versus the Vampire Part One" (10 pages)
  Gardner F. Fox (Writer) Bob Kane (Artist)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #31 (1939)

• Batman: "Batman Versus the Vampire Part Two" (10 pages)
  Gardner F. Fox (Writer) Bob Kane (Artist)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #32 (1939)

• Batman: "Dr. Hugo Strange and the Mutant Monsters" (12 pages)
  Bill Finger (Writer) Bob Kane (Artist)
  Reprinted From: Batman #1 (1940)

• Batman: "Knights of Knavery" (12 pages)
  Don Cameron (Writer) Jack Burnley (Penciller) Jerry Robinson (Inker)
  Reprinted From: Batman #25 (1944)

• "1001 Umbrellas of the Penguin" (5 pages)

• Batman: "The Origin of Batman" (13 pages)
  Bill Finger (Writer) Bob Kane (Penciller) Charles Paris (Inker)
  Reprinted From: Batman #47 (1948)

• Batman: "The Birth of Batplane II" (12 pages)
  David Vern Reed (Writer) Dick Sprang (Penciller) Charles Paris (Inker)
  Reprinted From: Batman #61 (1950)

• Robin: "Operation:Escape" (6 pages)
  Jim Mooney (Artist)
  Reprinted From: Star Spangled Comics #124 (1952)

• Batman: "The Jungle Cat-Queen" (12 pages)
  Edmond Hamilton (Writer) Dick Sprang (Penciller) Charles Paris (Inker)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #211 (1954)

• Batman: "The First Batman" (10 pages)
  Bill Finger (Writer) Sheldon Moldoff (Penciller) Stan Kaye (Inker)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #235 (1956)

• Superman/Batman: "Origin of the Superman-Batman Team" (12 pages)
  Edmond Hamilton (Writer) Dick Sprang (Penciller) Stan Kaye (Inker)
  Reprinted From: World's Finest Comics #94 (1958)

• Batman: "Robin Dies at Dawn" (17 pages)
  Bill Finger (Writer) Sheldon Moldoff (Penciller) Charles Paris (Inker)
  Reprinted From: Batman #156 (1963)

• Batman: "The Blockbuster Invasion of Gotham City" (14 pages)
  Gardner F. Fox (Writer) Carmine Infantino (Penciller) Joe Giella (Inker)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #345 (1965)

• Batman: "Ghost of the Killer Skies" (15 pages)
  Dennis J. O'Neil (Writer) Neal Adams (Penciller) Dick Giordano (Inker) John Costanza (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #404 (1970)

• Batman: "Half an Evil" (15 pages)
  Dennis J. O'Neil (Writer) Neal Adams (Penciller) Dick Giordano (Inker) John Costanza (Letterer)
  Reprinted From: Batman #234 (1971)

• Batman: "Man-Bat Over Vegas" (16 pages)
  Frank Robbins (Writer/Artist)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #429 (1972)

• Batman: "The Batman Nobody Knows" (6 pages)
  Frank Robbins (Writer) Dick Giordano (Artist)
  Reprinted From: Batman #250 (1973)

• Batman: "Deathmask" (12 pages)
  Archie Goodwin (Writer) Jim Aparo (Artist)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #437 (1973)

• Batman: "Death Haunts the Skies" (11 pages)
  Archie Goodwin (Writer) Alexander Toth (Artist)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #442 (1974)

• Batman: "No Hope in Crime Alley" (12 pages)
  Dennis J. O'Neil (Writer) Dick Giordano (Artist)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #457 (1976)

• Batman: "Death Strikes at Midnight and Three" (15 pages)
  Dennis J. O'Neil (Writer) William Marshall Rogers (Artist)
  Reprinted From: DC Special Series #15 (1978)

• Batman: "The Deadshot Ricochet" (17 pages)
  Steve Englehart (Writer) William Marshall Rogers (Penciller) Terry Austin (Inker) Ben Oda (Letterer) Jerry Serpe (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #474 (1977)

• "Bat-Mite's New York Adventure" (6 pages)
  Bob Rozakis (Writer) Michael Golden (Penciller) Robert Allen Smith (Inker) Milton Snapinn (Letterer) Anthony Tollin (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #482 (1979)

• Batman: "A Caper a Day Keeps the Batman at Bay" (15 pages)
  Len Wein (Writer) Walter Simonson (Penciller) Dick Giordano (Inker) Ben Oda (Letterer) Glynis Wein (Oliver) (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Batman #312 (1979)

• Batman: "To Kill a Legend" (19 pages)
  Alan Brennert (Writer) Dick Giordano (Artist) John Costanza (Letterer) Adrienne Roy (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Detective Comics #500 (1981)

• Batman: "The Autobiography of Bruce Wayne" (23 pages)
  Alan Brennert (Writer) Joe Staton (Penciller) George Freeman (Inker) John Costanza (Letterer) Adrienne Roy (Colorist)
  Reprinted From: Brave & the Bold #197 (1983)

Features:

• "Growing Up With The Greatest"
  Introduction by Dick Giordano
• "Our Darkest Knight"
  Foreward by Mike Gold
• "End Notes"
  by Robert Greenberger
• "Creating The Greatest"
  Credits by Mark Waid