Comic Title: Batman #27
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Feb/Mar 1945
Approx. On Sale Date: December 13, 1944 Copyright Date December 11, 1944
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1945
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: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Contains: Ownership Statement
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Penguin's Apprentice"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Don Cameron
Penciller: Jack Burnley
Inker: Jerry Robinson

Reprinted In:
Batman:The Dark Knight Archives Vol. 7 HC (2011)
Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 4 HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #95; next appearance in Batman #27)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #95; next appearance in Batman #27)

Villain(s)

• Penguin (last appearance in Batman #25; next appearance in Detective Comics #99)
• Penguin's gang (Louie named; no further appearances)
• Snipe (a counterfeiter; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Penguin's apprentice (no further appearances)
• A book publisher (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Penguin trains the son of one of his criminal friends in the fine points of crime. The boy doesn't want to be a criminal and fails. Penguin orders the boy to study his crime files, which the boy uses to write a book. Penguin decides to sell the book to the underworld, but no publisher will take it.

Penguin steals a truckload of paper, intending to publish the book himself. Batman and Robin are captured while trying to stop the robbery. While Penguin visits a counterfeiter to print the book, Batman and Robin escape. They track down the Penguin with the help of Penguin's apprentice. After the Penguin's capture, Batman arranges for the book to be published to illustrate that crime does not pay.