Comic Title: Man-Bat #1
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: December 1984
On Sale Date: September 13, 1984 Newsstand Date September 13, 1984
Source: DC Releases, #7

Shipping Date August 21, 1984
Source: DC Releases, #7

Shipping Date August 21, 1984
Source: Comics Journal, #92

Copyright Date August 21, 1984
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1984
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Shipping Date August 21, 1984
Source: Amazing Heroes, #53

Cover Price: $2.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: Nicola Cuti

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "Man or Bat?"
Pages: 16

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

Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Neal Adams
Inker: Dick Giordano
Letterer: John Costanza

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #402 (1970)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Brave & the Bold #91; next appearance in Detective Comics #407)

Guest Star(s)

• Man-Bat (last appearance in Detective Comics #400; next appearance in Detective Comics #407)

Villain(s)

• A gang of crooks (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Francine Lee (first appearance; next appearance in Detective Comics #407)

Other Character(s)

• A security guard (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman interrupts a robbery at a chemical lab. Man-Bat, and Kirk Langstrom, is also at the lab. He needs a chemical from the company safe that could stop him from completing his transformation into bat form. Batman tries to stop him from taking the chemical, but he fails. Batman also learns that Langstrom is not wearing a mask.

Batman is able to deduce Man-Bat's true identity. He goes to Langstrom's lab and meets his fiancee. Together they find Langstrom in his lab. The shock of seeing his fiancee causes Langstrom to drop the precious chemicals he needed and forces him to flee.

Langstrom, now fully transformed into a bat complete with wings, follows a bat to a cave outside the city. The cave happens to be the Bat-Cave. When Batman returns, he apprehends Man-Bat and vows to find a cure.