Cover: Fred Ray & Jerry Robinson

Batman #8

Dec 1941 · DC · 0.10 USD

📊 ~130,602 copies sold its debut month

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“Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make”

In "Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make," Batman takes a dangerous gamble by infiltrating a prison to expose a criminal mastermind using the facility as a front for his crimes. Written by Bill Finger and illustrated by Bob Kane, with inks by Jerry Robinson and George Roussos, this 1941 classic sees the Dark Knight risk everything in a high-stakes trap that nearly ends in tragedy. The cover by Fred Ray and Jerry Robinson captures the tension of a man on the edge, just as Batman faces his most perilous test yet.

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writer Bill Finger · artist Bob Kane · inker Jerry Robinson · inker, letterer George Roussos · cover Fred Ray, Jerry Robinson

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Full credits

writer Bill Finger

artist Bob Kane

inker Jerry Robinson

inker, letterer George Roussos

cover pencils Fred Ray

cover inks Jerry Robinson

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From prison, Big Mike Russo is able to have his gang kidnap the warden, replace him and the guards with a look alike, then use the prison as a base of operations to commit crimes while providing alibis to those committing them! Batman figures that the only way to uncover this scenario is to get put in prison himself, a move that almost costs him his life in the gas chamber!

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).