Comic Title: Bat Lash #4
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Apr/May 1969
On Sale Date: February 20, 1969 Newsstand Date February 20, 1969
Source: House Ad, Metal Men #37, Page 20

Newsstand Date February 20, 1969
Source: Comic Reader, #71

Copyright Date February 20, 1969
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1969


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

Title: (No Title)
Pages: 23

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

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

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

Feature Character(s)

• Bat Lash (last appearance in Bat Lash #3; next appearance in Bat Lash #5)

Supporting Character(s)

• Daisy (last appearance in Bat Lash #3; next appearance in Bat Lash #5)

Villain(s)

• A mexican general and his men (no further appearances)
• A gang of stage coach robbers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Little Jose and a pretty girl (a little boy and his sister; no further appearances)
• A mexican governor and his men (no further appearances)
• A gang of rebels (no further appearances)
• Several townspeople (Patria, Pablo, and Timothy named; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Bat Lash is rescued by the women of a small town after he angers the men. He leaves town and witnesses a stagecoach robbery. He helps the pretty girl who is delivering a shipment of money and learns their is more money to be had. He drives the stagecoach into Mexico until a group of soldiers capture it.

Bat Lash eludes the soldiers and is found by a group of rebels. They force him to break into a nearby fort to get information from one of the prisoners. Led by a small boy, Bat Lash gets inside the fort and finds the stagecoach girl. She then gives him the information concerning a traitor to the local governor.

Bat Lash then escapes the fort with Little Jose, the boy who acted as his guide. Jose is shot during the escape, forcing Bat Lash to run hard to the next town. He is too late to save the boy, but he reaches the governor in time to warn him about a general who is the traitor. Bat Lash is rewarded, but he has mixed feeling because of Jose's death.