Comic Title: World's Finest Comics #2
Publisher: DC (World's Best Comics Company)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Summer 1941
On Sale Date: May 16, 1941 Newsstand Date May 16, 1941
Source: House Ad, Action Comics #37, Page 64,
More Fun Comics #68, Page 64,
Detective Comics #52, Page 64,
Adventure Comics #63, Page 64,
Superman #11, Page 63

Copyright Date May 7, 1941
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Quarterly
Cover Price: $0.15
Page Count: 96
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: "The Man Who Couldn't Remember"
Pages: 13

Feature(s):
Batman (of Earth-2)

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Bob Kane

Reprinted In:
Batman:The World's Finest Comics Archives Vol. 1 HC (2002)
Batman Chronicles Vol. 4 TPB (2007)
Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2016)
Batman:The Golden Age Vol. 2 TPB (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #52; next appearance in Detective Comics #53)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #52; next appearance in Detective Comics #53)
• Linda Page (last appearance in Batman #5; next appearance in Batman #6)

Villain(s)

• Big Tim Bannon and Graves (a politcal boss and former district attorney; no further appearances)
• Ambrose Taylor, Mitch Mason, and their gang (no further appearances)
• Trig Cooler and his gang (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• William Kendrick (a district attorney; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
A gang war rages in Gotham City. A new district attorney, William Kendrick, is appointed to replace his corrupt predecessor. Kendrick announces that he has evidence against both mobs in a little black book. Batman fears for the man's safety, so he visits Kendrick's home.

Batman finds Kendrick murdered, and Ambrose Taylor, leader of a citizen's committee wounded. Before dying Kendrick gives Batman a clue to the location of the evidence. Taylor's injury gives him amnesia, so he is unable to identify the killers.

Batman brings Taylor in search of the book. The mobsters also seek the book and try to stop Batman. When Batman finds the book and rounds up the gangsters, Taylor recovers his memory. He blurts out that he killed Kendrick and was secretly the leader of one of the gangs. In trying to escape, Taylor falls to his death. Batman then turns the evidence and gangsters over to police.