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: "Marriage Impossible"
Pages: 15

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

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

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #407 (1971)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Aquaman #55; next appearance in Detective Comics #416)

Guest Star(s)

• Man-Bat (last appearance in Detective Comics #407; next appearance in Detective Comics #416)
• Francine Lee (becomes She-Bat; last appearance in Detective Comics #407; next appearance in Detective Comics #416)

Other Character(s)

• Wilkins (a museum curator; in flashback; no further appearances)

Flashback Appearance(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #402; next appearance in Batman #225)
• Man-Bat (last appearance in Detective Comics #402; next appearance in Detective Comics #407)
• Francine Lee (last appearance in Detective Comics #402; next appearance in Detective Comics #407)

Comments:
The flashback in this story occurs immediately after Batman's last encounter with Man-Bat in Detective Comics #402.

Synopsis:
After Batman trapped Man-Bat in the Bat-Cave, he left to find Francine Lee. He hoped to use her to convince Langstrom to take the antidote which would cure him. When Batman and Francine return to the cave, Man-Bat is gone. Batman asks Francine to contact him if she finds him.

Later Man-Bat does contact Francine. Instead of convincing him to take the antidote, Francine agrees to be turned into a bat herself. Langstrom them recreates the formula which turned him into Man-Bat and uses it on Francine.

The two creatures then stage a wedding wearing rubber masks. Batman interrupts the wedding and exposes them. He then uses the antidote on both, changing them back into human form.