Comic Title: Batman:The Black Casebook TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2009
On Sale Date: June 17, 2009 Direct Market Date June 17, 2009
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Direct Market Date June 17, 2009
Source: Previews, #246

Direct Market Date June 17, 2009
Source: Previews, DC Comics Previews May 2009

Cover Price: $17.99
Page Count: 144
Editor: Bob Joy

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Robin Dies at Dawn"
Pages: 17

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Penciller: Sheldon Moldoff
Inker: Charles Paris

Reprinted From:
Batman #156 (1963)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #156; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #134)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #156; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #134)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Detective Comics #315; next appearance in Detective Comics #317)
• Alfred Pennyworth (last appearance in Batman #155; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #134)
• Ace the Bat-Hound (last appearance in Batman #156; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #134)

Villain(s)

• The Gorilla Gang (Luke named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• An army doctor and officer (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from the first story of Batman #156.

Synopsis:
After undergoing an army experiment to test the effects of solitude on the mind, Batman begins to have hallucinations. He imagine Robin is killed on an alien world. When real life events begin to remind Batman of his hallucinated experience, he is unable to fight crime.

Batman retires, leaving Robin to carry on for him. However, when the Boy Wonder is captured by the Gorilla Gang, Batman returns to action to save his partner from execution. The experience successfully cures Batman of his hallucinations.