Comic Title: Showcase Presents:The Brave and the Bold Batman Team-Ups Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: December 28, 2007 Direct Market Date December 26, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #10 (#226)

Direct Market Date December 28, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Friday, December 28, 2007

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 520
Editor: Bob Harras

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Night Wears a Scarlet Shroud"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: Bob Haney
Artist: Nicholas Peter Cardy
Letterer: John Costanza

Reprinted From:
Brave & the Bold #92 (1970)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #403; next appearance in Detective Comics #404)
• Margo Cantrell (a movie stand-in; no further appearances)
• Major Dabney (a former Scotland Yard inspector; no further appearances)
• Mick Murdock (a guitar player; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• The Scarlet Strangler (Basil Coventry's father; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Basil Coventry (a director; no further appearances)
• Vivien Tremaine (an actress; no further appearances)
• Ronald Dawson (an actor; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• A highwayman (no further appearances)

Comments:
Major Dabney, Mick Murdock, and Margo Cantrell assist Batman in this story. The trio is dubbed the Bat-Squad in the final panel.

Synopsis:
Bruce Wayne visits a movie set in London. During the production, the leading actress Vivien Tremaine is kidnapped by the Scarlet Strangler, the villain of the story. However, her kidnapping was not in the script, and the actor who was to play the Strangler is found murdered.

Batman investigates with the help of three members of the movie crew: Major Dabney, the technical advisor; Margo Cantrell, Vivien's stand-in; and Mick Murdock, a musician. Together they locate Vivien. The Strangler is killed, and Batman escapes from a bomb before the mystery is solved. The Strangler turns out to have been the son of the original Strangler upon which the film is based. The director Basil Coventry is the grandson of the original Strangler.

When the case is closed, Dabney, Mick, and Margo offer to assist Batman with future cases, taking the name the Bat-Squad.