Cover: Win Mortimer

Batman #64

Apr 1951 · DC · 0.10 USD

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“The Candid Camera Killer!”

In "The Candid Camera Killer!", Batman faces a cunning return from the shadows as Killer Moth reemerges, using his guise as museum board member Cameron Van Cleer to smuggle a South American moth collection into Gotham. With Bill Finger’s sharp scripting and Bob Kane’s definitive art—enhanced by Lew Sayre Schwartz’s pencils and Charles Paris’s inks—this 1951 classic builds suspense through misdirection and a cleverly concealed identity, all wrapped in Win Mortimer’s striking cover.

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writer Bill Finger · artist Bob Kane · artist Lew Sayre Schwartz · inker Charles Paris · letterer Ira Schnapp · cover Win Mortimer

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VF/NM $3.98 GD $180 GD $275 GD $290 CGC 4.5 $476.93 CGC 5 $575 Batman #64 Coverless Complete 2nd Appearance Killer Moth! DC Comics 1951 $119

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Cast · 12 characters

Alfred Beagle Batman Captain Tootsie Casey the Cop Commissioner James Gordon Dick Grayson Drury Walker Peg Rollo Shorty Superman Vicki Vale

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writer Bill Finger

artist Bob Kane

artist Lew Sayre Schwartz

inker Charles Paris

letterer Ira Schnapp

cover pencils, inks Win Mortimer

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Killer Moth returns after his previous escape from Batman, using his influence as Cameron Van Cleer on the museum board of directors to import a moth collection from South America, so he can steal it and therefore revive Killer Moth's shattered image. He tries twice, but is thwarted. He then becomes suspicious of Bruce Wayne being Batman, but the Dark Knight is able to convince him otherwise. At the same time, Killer Moth makes a slip revealing his own identity, allowing for Batman to finally unearth his millionaire alias and have him arrested at his home.

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