Comic Title: Best of DC #22
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: March 1982
On Sale Date: December 3, 1981 Newsstand Date December 3, 1981
Source: Comic Reader, #197

Newsstand Date December 3, 1981
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #61

Newsstand Date December 3, 1981
Source: Comics Journal, #69

Newsstand Date December 3, 1981
Source: Amazing Heroes, #7

Newsstand Date December 3, 1981
Source: Daily Planet, Vol. 81 #20
Listed as on sale the week of December 3rd

Newsstand Date December 3, 1981
Source: Amazing Heroes, #8
AH repeats the number and date of #22
Contents listed are from #23

Copyright Date November 10, 1981
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1981
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Shipping Date November 10, 1981
Source: DC Coming Attractions, #61

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.95
Page Count: 96
Editor: Julius Schwartz

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "A Christmas Peril"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Don Cameron
Artist: Jerry Robinson

Reprinted From:
Batman #27 (1945)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #27; next appearance in Detective Comics #96)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #27; next appearance in Detective Comics #96)

Villain(s)

• Happy Hoggsby and his gang (racketeers; no further appearances)
• Gulliver and Eggers (Loring's butler and assistant; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Scranton Loring and Timothy (a boy millionaire and his uncle; no further appearances)
• An older couple and their children (no further appearances)
• Joe Meeker and his wife (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman and Robin stop a gang of racketeers who have cornered the market on Christmas trees. The boss behind the scheme in Happy Hoggsby, who is backed by boy millionaire Scranton Loring.

Batman and Robin pay a visit to Loring's mansion, where they find that Scranton is a young miser. Batman and Robin take Scranton around town and show him how the racketeers have ruined the lives of innocent people. Scranton begins to see that he has mistreated people.

Meanwhile, his assistants, Gulliver and Eggers, have stolen Scranton's fortune. When Scranton visits Hoggsby, he learns about the betrayal. The crooks plan to eliminate Scranton, but Batman and Robin save him. Then Scranton joins Batman, Robin, and his uncle Timothy in delivering Christmas presents to the people hurt by the racketeers.