Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Batman Vol. 4 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2009
On Sale Date: July 22, 2009 Direct Market Date July 22, 2009
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Direct Market Date July 22, 2009
Source: Previews, #247

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 520
Editor: Sean Mackiewicz

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Doomsday Ball"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Batman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Irving H. Novick
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Batman #207 (1968)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #381; next appearance in Justice League of America #68)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #381; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #181)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #206; next appearance in Brave & the Bold #81)

Villain(s)

• Bertram Smith (a blackmailer; no further appearances)
• Big Brill and his men (Snake-Eyes and One-Ear named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Mayor Hayes, Major-General Hawkins, Robertson, Fairbanks, Professor Willi Von Gail, and Master Sergeant Owens (no further appearances)
• Skinnay and his friends (young boys; no further appearances)
• Tillie Conway and a TV repairman (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
A small nuclear device has been stolen and is being used to blackmail Gotham City. Batman enlists the aid of gangster Big Brill to identify the blackmailer, but first he must survive several death traps set up by Brill and his men. Working against the blackmailer's deadline, Batman follows clues until he finds the bomb inside the trunk of a parked car. However, a remote triggering device could still activate the bomb.

Gotham officials agree to pay the blackmail demands. Batman follows the money to the blackmailer, Bertram Smith. The man is killed at the airport, but not before he reveals that the remote trigger is hidden inside a young boy's ball. Batman finds the boy and the ball in time to deactivate the trigger and save Gotham.