Comic Title: Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 5 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2018
On Sale Date: June 20, 2018 Direct Market Date June 20, 2018
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Direct Market Date May 30, 2018
Source: Previews, #350

Cover Price: $99.99
Page Count: 800
Editor: Alex Galer

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Carbon Copy Crimes"
Pages: 11

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

Writer: Bill Finger
Artist: Jim Mooney

Reprinted From:
Batman #38 (1946)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #38; next appearance in Batman #38)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #38; next appearance in Batman #38)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #37; next appearance in Batman #38)

Villain(s)

• An unnamed psychologist (dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Pierre Antal (last appearance in Detective Comics #42; no further appearances)
• Jennings (a broker; behind-the-scenes; revealed to be a murder victim; no further appearances)
• An unnamed lawyer and Louisa Ponelle (an opera star; both die in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is a sequel to the first story of Detective Comics #42.

Synopsis:
A series of murders duplicate those surrounding Batman's first big case six years earlier. Portraits are disfigured, then the subjects of the portraits are murdered. Batman decides to use the same trap to catch this killer.

The killer arrives on schedule, but has planned for Batman's arrival on the scene. He takes Batman and Robin prisoner and reveals that he is a psychologist conducting a test. He wants to see if Batman's initial success in his first big case was the secret of his career.

Batman then tricks the killer by revealing his secret identity. A delayed radio broadcast with Batman's voice seems to prove that he is not Batman, and that the psychologist trapped the wrong man. Upset that his test has failed, the psychologist kills himself, ending the case just as the original ended.