Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Batman Vol. 6 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2016
On Sale Date: January 20, 2016 Direct Market Date January 20, 2016
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Direct Market Date January 20, 2016
Source: Previews, #325

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 584

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Challenge of the Consumer Crusader"
Pages: 15

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

Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Bob Brown
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: John Costanza

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #415 (1971)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #235; next appearance in Brave & the Bold #98)

Villain(s)

• Joan Wilde and her henchmen (no further appearances)
• Tag Callum and Jo-Jo Weems (hitmen; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Barbara Gordon (last appearance in Detective Comics #415; next appearance in Detective Comics #416)

Other Character(s)

• Tom Carson (a consumer advocate; next appearance in Batman #249)
• Ben Ames (head of Magna Industries; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman saves the life of consumer advocate Tom Carson. Carson believes he was targeted by Magna Industries, the subject of his next consumer report. Batman learns that the head of the company Ben Ames hired the hitmen, but he was the victim of an extortion racket. Batman traces the blackmailer to Carson's product test lab run by Joan Wilde. Batman exposes the extortion scheme perpetrated by Wilde.