Comic Title: Batman:Second Chances TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2015
On Sale Date: July 15, 2015 Direct Market Date July 15, 2015
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Direct Market Date July 15, 2015
Source: Previews, #319

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 280
Editor: Jeb Woodard

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Love Bird"
Pages: 15

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Max Allan Collins
Artist: Norm Breyfogle
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted From:
Batman Annual #11 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman Annual #11; next appearance in Fury of Firestorm #64)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman Annual #13; next appearance in Batman #412)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman Annual #11; next appearance in Vigilante #44)

Villain(s)

• Penguin (last appearance in Detective Comics #568; next appearance in Suicide Squad #3)
• A gang of liquor store bandits (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Members of a parole board (no further appearances)
• Dovina Partridge (no further appearances)
• Several ex-cons (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Despite Batman's testimony before a parole board, the Penguin is released from prison. He begins living with Dovina Partridge, a bird lover he met through an ornithology magazine. Dovina tells the Penguin that he must remain honest for their relationship to work. Penguin then opens an umbrella factory.

Batman keeps watch, but can find no evidence that the Penguin has returned to crime. However, he notices that the factory guards are heavily armed ex-cons. Batman enters the factory expecting to find an illegal operation. However, the Penguin is conducting honest business. However, by hiring the ex-cons he is in violation of his parole.

This time Batman makes a case to the parole board that the Penguin should be allowed to go free. Once again the board does not listen, and the Penguin is sent back to prison. Batman is able to arrange for Dovina to visit him.