Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Batman Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: June 27, 2007 Direct Market Date June 27, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #3 (#219)

Direct Market Date June 27, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 512
Editor: Bob Joy

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Decline and Fall of Batman"
Pages: 24

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Sheldon Moldoff
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Batman #175 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #344; next appearance in Justice League of America #40)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Detective Comics #344; next appearance in Detective Comics #345)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #174; next appearance in Detective Comics #345)
• Harriet Cooper (last appearance in Detective Comics #340; next appearance in Detective Comics #351)

Villain(s)

• Eddie Repp (a criminal inventor; no further appearances)
• A ghost Batman and Robin, and a ghost gang (no further appearances)
• Various criminal gangs (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Ex-con Eddie Repp creates a device which can create ghost images. Eddie designs a special keyboard with which he can control the ghosts and enable them to interact with solid objects. Vowing revenge upon Batman and Robin, Eddie creates ghosts of the Dynamic Duo. The ghosts then take the place of the real heroes apprehending the criminals of Gotham.

The real Batman and Robin are unable to discover the secret of their duplicates. The ghosts prove far more effective crime-fighters, disheartening the heroes. After psychologically humiliating the Dynamic Duo, Repp sends his ghosts to beat them physically. Batman is soundly defeated.

Repp then creates a gang of ghost crooks. Batman and Robin realize the crooks must be connected to their ghost counterparts. Though they are unable to stop the crooks, Batman places radioactive tracer dust on the loot. The heroes are then able to track down Repp. Repp is paralyzed by the radioactive dust, allowing Batman to apprehend him and finish the ghosts off once and for all.