Comic Title: Bat Lash #1
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Oct/Nov 1968
On Sale Date: August 20, 1968 Copyright Date August 20, 1968
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1968

Newsstand Date August 20, 1968
Source: Comic Reader, #68

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Joe Orlando

Title: "We're A-Comin' ta Get You"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Bat Lash (of Earth-1)

Plotter: Sergio Aragones
Scripter: Dennis J. O'Neil
Artist: Nicholas Peter Cardy

Reprinted In:
Showcase Presents:Bat Lash TPB (2009)

Feature Character(s)

• Bat Lash (last appearance in Showcase #76; next appearance in Bat Lash #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Daisy (last appearance in Showcase #76; next appearance in Bat Lash #2)

Villain(s)

• A gang of bandits (Slim and Stosh named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Brother Sebastian (a monk; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Sebastian's niece (no further appearances)
• Residents of Wormhole (including the town sheriff; Cyrus Virus, the town doctor named; no further appearances)
• Residents of No Hope Junction (Sarry Lou named; no further appearances)
• An unnamed monk (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Bat Lash leaves No Hope Junction to avoid a lynch mob. On the road he meets a monk named Sebastian who offers him kindness. Sebastian has one piece of a marker that leads to the lost fortune of Don Sergio Aragones. After parting ways, Sebastian is killed by outlaws seeking the marker. Bat Lash is wounded while fighting them.

Bat Lash recovers in the town of Wormhole not far from the monastery where Sebastian was headed. He tells the monks there that Sebastian was killed, but the monks are really the outlaws. They then frame Bat for Sebastian's murder.

Bat escapes from jail and locates another traveling monk who carries another marker to the treasure. He takes the monk's place and returns to the monastery. He then sells the crooks the second marker. The sheriff catches Bat on the way out, but he talks his way out of trouble. While romancing Sebastian's niece, he discovers a third marker needed to find the treasure. He allows the sheriff to take the fortune after capturing the outlaws. Bat keeps the money he made from selling the second marker and leaves town.