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: "The Smile of Choclotan"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: Bob Haney
Penciller: Bob Brown
Inker: Nicholas Peter Cardy
Letterer: John Costanza

Reprinted From:
Brave & the Bold #97 (1971)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #234; next appearance in Detective Comics #414)
• Wildcat (last appearance in Brave & the Bold #88; next appearance in Brave & the Bold #110)

Villain(s)

• El Sordo (a former fight manager and smuggler; no further appearances)
• The Vaqueros (El Buey named; El Sordo's men; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Luis Mercado (a cliff-diver; no further appearances)
• El Machete (a boxer; no further appearances)
• Luis Mercado, Sr. (Luis's father; in flashback; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
While visiting Mexico Batman saves the life of young Luis Mercado. Batman follows the boy in order to learn why he has been targeted. He finds Ted Grant participating in an underground boxing match, helped by the kid. Batman learns that Wildcat and Luis's father were friends. Ted has amnesia after they went in search of the treasure of Choclotan. Luis's father was killed.

Batman joins Ted and Luis on another trek through the country in search of the treasure. A smuggler known as Mr. Big tries to follow. The smuggler is actually the former fight manager of Luis's father, El Sordo. Ted regains his memory and leads the crooks into a trap. He then shows the others the cave he discovered with Mercado containing Choclotan.