Detective Comics #168

In "The Man Behind the Red Hood!", Batman takes a rare break from the streets to teach criminology at State University, where his sharp students impress him with their deductions. When he challenges them with an unsolved case from his past—the elusive Red Hood—what begins as a classroom exercise soon blurs the line between lesson and investigation. Written by Bill Finger and illustrated by Lew Sayre Schwartz, Win Mortimer, and George Roussos, with a cover by Lew Sayre Schwartz and George Roussos, this 1951 issue offers a clever twist on Batman’s early detective work.