Comic Title: World's Finest Comics #6
Publisher: DC (World's Best Comics Company)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Summer 1942
On Sale Date: May 8, 1942 Newsstand Date May 8, 1942
Source: House Ad, Detective Comics #64, Page 28

Copyright Date April 28, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Quarterly
Cover Price: $0.15
Page Count: 96
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: "The Secret of Bruce Wayne"
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Joseph Greene
Artist: Jerry Robinson

Reprinted In:
Batman:The World's Finest Comics Archives Vol. 1 HC (2002)
Batman Chronicles Vol. 6 TPB (2008)
Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 2 HC (2016)
Batman:The Golden Age Vol. 3 TPB (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #64; next appearance in Detective Comics #65)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #64; next appearance in Detective Comics #65)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Detective Comics #62; next appearance in Detective Comics #65)

Villain(s)

• Graves (a radio announcer; no further appearances)
• Various unnamed hoods (no further appearances)
• Joker (last appearance in Detective Comics #64; next appearance in Batman #12)
• Catwoman (spelled Cat-Woman in this story; last appearance in Batman #10; next appearance in Batman #15)
• Penguin (last appearance in Batman #11; next appearance in Detective Comics #67)

Other Character(s)

• Scoop Scanlon (a reporter for View Magazine; not to be confused with Scoop Scanlon from Action Comics; no further appearances)
• Wicks (a publisher; no further appearances)
• Mark Loring (a stage actor; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Mr. Rand (a radio program director; no further appearances)
• Mr. Brent (a script writer; no further appearances)

Comments:
The Joker, Penguin, and Catwoman appear only briefly in this story.

Synopsis:
Batman's adventures are dramatized by the radio show Racket-Smashers. However, Batman notices that another gang of crooks is using the scripts from the show to commit the same crimes without making the mistakes portrayed in the show. While trying to put a stop to the gang, Batman is accompanied by Scoop Scanlon a reporter for View Magazine who is seeking to learn Batman's secret identity. The reporter unwittingly lures Batman into a trap, but Robin is on hand to perform a timely rescue.

Batman deduces that the radio program announcer Graves is behind the crimes. He puts a stop to the gang. A stage actor, Mark Loring is shot during the skirmish. Before dying, Loring learns Batman's secret and pretends to be Batman long enough to convince Scanlon that Bruce Wayne and Batman are different people. When Loring dies, he takes Batman's secret with him.