Synopsis[]
"Back To the Big House"[]
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"While the City Sleeps"[]
Batman decides to educate Robin about the nocturnal workers who keep Gotham City functioning through the night, but as they wander the city streets the notice a man breaking into a building and putting something into a safe. It emerges that Joe Jones was returning money that he had stolen five days ago because he met a girl, Ann Dayton, who promised to marry him if he reformed and returned the money. Batman is prepared to give Jones another chance, but Hush-Hush Bodin and his gang, of which Jones was a member, appear in order to reclaim the money. A fight breaks out and Jones gets shot, allowing the gang to escape. Jones asks Batman and Robin to deliver the money to Ann while he is recovering in hospital.
When they meet Ann, a ballet dancer, who requests to speak to them in the prop department of the Gotham Hall Theatre. Batman notices that Ann walks slightly pigeon-toed - a ballet dancer would point her toes outward - and that they have walked into a trap. Hush-Hush's gang have been hiding in animal costumes and they chase Batman and Robin into an elevator pit. Robin slips and Batman is clubbed by Hush-Hush, who escapes with the money. When Batman and Robin come to, they discover that an elevator is coming down and about to crush them. Batman finds a rubber-handled screwdriver which he uses to short circuit the elevator, allowing him to escape.
As they are leaving the theatre, they hear a thumping coming from behind the door. The discover that the scrubwoman had been tied up and overheard Hush-Hush's conversation. He planned to get 'Ann' to make a radio request to Jones saying "I'm with H.H... Please come home..." Jones fell for the bait and struggled out of hospital to meet his girl at Hush-Hush's hideout. Meanwhile, Batman and Robin ran to the radio station to ask the DJ, Dan Shawn, about recent requests. Soon after Jones meets Hush-Hush's gang, Batman and Robin smash through the windows of the hideout. The story comes to it's conclusion as Batman, Robin and Jones win a fight with the gang and get hold of the money once again.
"Alias the Baron"[]
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"Ally Babble and the Fourteen Peeves"[]
Ally Babble, considered by some to be the most talkative and loudest man in the world, makes the acquaintance of Jasper Quinch; an elderly,crabby man in a wheelchair. Quinch says he will pay Babble $5,000.00 if he exacts comic vengeance on fourteen people who he considers
to be the world's worst public pests.
Gotham City is in an uproar as Babble takes on the job with glee. Motorists who splash water on people standing at the curb are pulled from their cars and throw into large puddles. People who hog public telephones are sealed into the booths(while the crowd cheers). Barbers who cut YOUR hair they way THEY want to---Babble shaves one half-bald. Two small time criminals named Hoiman and Shoiman commit robberies in Babble's wake, casting the false impression that he is a criminal and bringing Batman and Robin into the picture.
Quinch decides the joke has gone too far and informs Batman and Robin of the arrangement. Hoiman and Shoiman are captured trying to rob an exclusive private club.
Back at QUinch's, Quinch is so eager to tell Babble to shut up that he doesn't notice he's jumped out of his wheelchair and run halfway across the room to do it. Having accomplished this medical miracle, Ally Babble goes cheerfully on his way.
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Appearances[]
Individuals[]
"While the City Sleeps!"[]
Individuals[]
- Batman
- Robin
- Hush-Hush Bodin (Only appearance)
- Ann Dayton (Only appearance)
- Dan Shawn (Only appearance)
- Joe Jones (Only appearance)