Comic Title: Batman #49
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Oct/Nov 1948
Approx. On Sale Date: August 13, 1948 Copyright Date August 11, 1948
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1948
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
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Prison Doctor"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Jim Mooney

Reprinted In:
Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 6 HC (2019)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #85; next appearance in Batman #49)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #85; next appearance in Batman #49)

Villain(s)

• John "Lippy" Fabian, Athur "Boodle" Benson, Jeff "Nitro" Blake, and Ned "Weasel" Harris (bank robbers; Weasel dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Dr. Paul Taber (a prison doctor; no further appearances)
• A prison warden and members of a review board (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Four criminals are apprehended and sent to prison following a bank robbery. The money is never found. The crooks begin serving life sentences and make several escape attempts. Each attempt is thwarted, so they kill one of their own men. The other three are then sentence to death for the murder.

The crooks bribe the electrician and prison doctor to fake their deaths in the electric chair. The prison docotor then smuggles one of the crooks out of prison. He recovers the stolen money, then finds Batman waiting for him. The doctor and Batman were working together to get the crooks to reveal the location of the stolen money. The crook is returned to jail where his death sentence is presumedly carried out.