Comic Title: Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1992
On Sale Date: May 26, 1992 Shipping Date May 26, 1992
Source: Previews, Vol. 2 #3 (#39)

Direct Market Date May 27, 1992
Source: Usenet, Capital City : MISC: New Books-5/27/92

Shipping Date May 26, 1992
Source: Direct Currents, #52

Shipping Date May 28, 1992
Source: Amazing Heroes, #201

Direct Market Date May 28, 1992
Source: Comic Shop News, #256

Copyright Date May 26, 1992
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1992

Cover Price: $16.95
Page Count: 256
Editor: Robert Greenberger

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Love Bird"
Pages: 15

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Max Allan Collins
Artist: Norm Breyfogle
Letterer: Albert Tobias De Guzman
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted From:
Batman Annual #11 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman Annual #11; next appearance in Fury of Firestorm #64)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman Annual #13; next appearance in Batman #412)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman Annual #11; next appearance in Vigilante #44)

Villain(s)

• Penguin (last appearance in Detective Comics #568; next appearance in Suicide Squad #3)
• A gang of liquor store bandits (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Members of a parole board (no further appearances)
• Dovina Partridge (no further appearances)
• Several ex-cons (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Despite Batman's testimony before a parole board, the Penguin is released from prison. He begins living with Dovina Partridge, a bird lover he met through an ornithology magazine. Dovina tells the Penguin that he must remain honest for their relationship to work. Penguin then opens an umbrella factory.

Batman keeps watch, but can find no evidence that the Penguin has returned to crime. However, he notices that the factory guards are heavily armed ex-cons. Batman enters the factory expecting to find an illegal operation. However, the Penguin is conducting honest business. However, by hiring the ex-cons he is in violation of his parole.

This time Batman makes a case to the parole board that the Penguin should be allowed to go free. Once again the board does not listen, and the Penguin is sent back to prison. Batman is able to arrange for Dovina to visit him.