Comic Title: Batman #81
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1954
On Sale Date: December 2, 1953 Copyright Date November 30, 1953
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1953
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.

Newsstand Date December 2, 1953
Source: Newsdealer Magazine, V8 #10

Frequency: 8 times yearly – monthly, except Jan., May, July, and Nov.
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 40
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "Two-Face Strikes Again"
Pages: 10

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

Writer: David Vern Reed
Penciller: Dick Sprang
Inker: Charles Paris

Reprinted In:
Batman from the 30s to the 70s HC (1972)
Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told HC (1990)
Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told TPB (1992)
Batman in the Fifties TPB (2002)
Batman Vs. Two-Face TPB (2008)
Two-Face:A Celebration of 75 Years HC (2018)
Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 9 HC (2021)
Batman in the Fifties TPB (2021)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #68; next appearance in Batman #81)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #68; next appearance in Batman #81)
• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #68; next appearance in Batman #81)

Villain(s)

• Two-Face (Harvey Dent; first Earth-1 appearance; next appearance in Batman #234)
• Two-Face's gang (no further appearances)
• Two safe-crackers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Tarando, Charles Ford, Chicago Al Garver, and John Fields Benson (a famous clown, a deep-sea diver, a gambler, and an actor; no further appearances)

Comments:
Two-Face's face, having been previously restored by plastic surgery, is once again disfigured. Since the Earth-2 Two-Face, Harvey Kent, never had the surgery undone, this story takes place on Earth-1, making it the first appearance of the Earth-1 version of the character.

Synopsis:
Harvey Dent is injured in an explosion resulting in his restoritive plastic surgery coming undone. With his face once again disfigured, Harvey once again resumes his role as Two-Face.

Two-Face hires a new gang and begins targeting victims who themselves have two faces. Batman deduces Two-Face's strategy and pursues the crooks. After a few unsuccessful encounters, Batman and Robin are captured by Two-Face and tied to a giant coin. The coin is flipped above several large spikes, but the Caped Crusaders set up a magnet, so that they land right-side up. Then they round-up Two-Face and his gang.