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: "Mansion of the Misbegotten"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: Bob Haney
Artist: Jim Aparo

Reprinted From:
Brave & the Bold #98 (1971)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #415; next appearance in Detective Comics #416)
• Phantom Stranger (last appearance in Phantom Stranger #15; next appearance in Phantom Stranger #16)

Supporting Character(s)

• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #234; next appearance in Detective Comics #416)

Villain(s)

• Clorinda and Enoch (a witch and her spawn; both die in this story; no further appearances)
• Doctor Malthus, Walt Higgins, and other members of a witches' coven (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Roger Birnam (a friend of Batman; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Roger Birnam, Jr. (Roger's son; no further appearances)
• Mac (a coroner; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman visits his friend Roger Birnam on his deathbed and promises to protect his wife Clorinda and son Enoch. Sometime later, a man who was at Roger's funeral turns up at the Gotham City morgue. Batman returns to Birnam's home. With the help of the Phantom Stranger, he learns that Clorinda is a member of a witches' coven. Enoch is an evil child. The witches target Batman, but he and the Stranger defeat them. Clorinda and Enoch are killed, presumedly by Roger's ghost. Batman also learns that Enoch had a good twin whom he promises to protect.