Comic Title: Batman #413
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1987
On Sale Date: August 11, 1987 Newsstand Date August 11, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #42

Newsstand Date August 11, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #122

Shipping Date July 21, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #122

Shipping Date July 21, 1987
Source: Focus, #1, Page BC

Copyright Date July 21, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "The Ghost of Masahiko Tahara"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Mary Jo Duffy
Penciller: Kieron M. Dwyer
Inker: Mike DeCarlo
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Batman:Second Chances TPB (2015)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Outsiders #25; next appearance in Swamp Thing #66)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #579; next appearance in Action Comics #594)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Batman #412; next appearance in Swamp Thing #66)

Villain(s)

• Yoshio Tahara (a descendant of the Tahara family; no further appearances)
• Dr. Lucius Pitts (curator of the Gotham Museum; no further appearances)
• Toshihiko Kikkawa (a Japanese criminal; no further appearances)
• A gang of thieves (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Kay Doran (a television reporter; no further appearances)
• A museum guard (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
An exhibit is on display at the Gotham Metropolitan Museum featuring Japanese weapons and costumes from the Tahara clan. Batman receives information about a potential robbery at the museum, so he increases his watch in the area. Reports of a ghost begin to surface after a guard is injured. One night, Batman stops a robbery of the museum curator outside the museum by streets punks. A costumed samurai also helps fight the crooks, then disappears.

Batman visits the dojo of Yoshio Tahara, the man who is responsible for the exhibit. He challenges the man to a fight which he wins. He then returns to the museum to speak with the curator. The masked samurai returns and this time attacks Batman. The curator tries to help the samurai, but Robin stops him while disguised as the ghost. Batman then defeats the samurai and unmasks him as Yoshio. The curator and Yoshio were using the legend of the Japanese ghosts and the attention of their exhibit to draw attantion away from the other exhibits from which they were stealing.