Detective Comics # 27 - The Case of the Chemical Syndicate

Stories:

1. Crime Never Pays

2. The Case Of The Chemical Syndicate

3. Tenderfoot

4. Killers Of Kurdistan

5. Bullet Bluff

6. The Mysterious Murders

7. Murder on The Oceanic Line Docks

8. Death on The Airwaves

9. The New Orleans Mardi Gras Murder: Part 1

10. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu: Part 11
11. ?

12. Illegal Aliens

13. Plain Clothes Pete

14. The Murderer on Vacation

It starts with Commisioner Gordon chatting with his friend, Bruce Wayne. A call comes to Gordon from the police department, a man has been murdered and fingerprints on the knife shows that it was the man's son. GOrdon heads over there immediately, Bruce doesn't seem to mind. Gordon arrives and the man's son explains that when he arrived home he found his father stabbed and he had picked up the knife, hence the fingerprints. That night, two people breaks into the house of the murdered man and they steal a paper from there, when they turn around they see Batman standing before them. Batman fights them and gets the paper. Meanwhile, the son is confronted by a man and he knocks him out and activates a glass prison from which he would be locked as the poisonous gases fill it. Batman arrives there and grabbes a heavy bottle and enters the chamber before the glass prison surrounds the man, he throws the bottle to smash the glass and free the man. Batman fights the attempted murderer and drops him into a vat of acid. The man thanks Batman for saving him but when he turns around Batman is not there. The next day, Gordon and Bruce are talking about Batman, Bruce doesn't seem to care much about him, then a call comes through, there's been another murder and Gordon heads to investigate it. Bruce just sits there and them quickly goes into a closet. When he comes out, the reader finally sees that Bruce Wayne was Batman all along.