Comic Title: Batman by Neal Adams Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2019
On Sale Date: January 2, 2019 Direct Market Date January 2, 2019
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Direct Market Date January 2, 2019
Source: Previews, #361

Direct Market Date January 2, 2019
Source: DC Previews, #6

Cover Price: $24.99
Page Count: 232
Editor: Eric Searleman

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Man or Bat?"
Pages: 16

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

Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Neal Adams
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: John Costanza

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #402 (1970)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Brave & the Bold #91; next appearance in Detective Comics #407)

Guest Star(s)

• Man-Bat (last appearance in Detective Comics #400; next appearance in Detective Comics #407)

Villain(s)

• A gang of crooks (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Francine Lee (first appearance; next appearance in Detective Comics #407)

Other Character(s)

• A security guard (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman interrupts a robbery at a chemical lab. Man-Bat, and Kirk Langstrom, is also at the lab. He needs a chemical from the company safe that could stop him from completing his transformation into bat form. Batman tries to stop him from taking the chemical, but he fails. Batman also learns that Langstrom is not wearing a mask.

Batman is able to deduce Man-Bat's true identity. He goes to Langstrom's lab and meets his fiancee. Together they find Langstrom in his lab. The shock of seeing his fiancee causes Langstrom to drop the precious chemicals he needed and forces him to flee.

Langstrom, now fully transformed into a bat complete with wings, follows a bat to a cave outside the city. The cave happens to be the Bat-Cave. When Batman returns, he apprehends Man-Bat and vows to find a cure.