Comic Title: Batman Chronicles Vol. 11 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2013
On Sale Date: January 9, 2013 Direct Market Date January 9, 2013
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Direct Market Date December 19, 2012
Source: Previews, #288

Cover Price: $14.99
Page Count: 168

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Centuries of Crime"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Batman (of Earth-2)

Writer: Don Cameron
Artist: Jack Burnley

Reprinted From:
Batman #20 (1943)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #81; next appearance in Batman #20)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #81; next appearance in Batman #20)
• Alfred Beagle (last appearance in Batman #18; next appearance in Batman #20)

Villain(s)

• Joker (last appearance in Batman #19; next appearance in Detective Comics #85)
• Ecla Tate and Meera Kell (con artists; no further appearances)
• Kid Glove Mixter (a superstitious crook; no further appearances)
• Several unnamed henchmen (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Percival Pruitt (a rich investor; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
With the aid of two con artists the Joker plans a scheme to rob two wealthy men. He tells both men that his friends have invented a time machine. Percival Pruitt, a greedy investor, uses the time machine to travel into the future in hopes of making large sums of money. The second victim, bank robber Kid Glove Mixter, takes the trip to the future to escape Batman.

Batman learns about the phony time machine and follows Pruitt to the Joker's lair. He and Robin are then captured by the Joker and taken to the future as prisoners. Pruitt and Mixter don't like what they find in the future, so they pay the Joker to take them back. Instead of sending them to the present though, Joker sends them to the past.

Meanwhile, Batman and Robin escape. They discover that they are on a futuristic movie set, not the real future. They locate Pruitt and Mixter and rescue them from the Joker. Batman apprehends the Joker and his men. The men then realize that they were tricked. Pruitt promises to use his wealth to help the war relief effort, and Mixter promises to reform.