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7. Operation: Escape

Star-Spangled Comics # 124 (1952)

This. Is not. A Batman. Story.

I am disappointed. It is a Robin Story. Batman is not in a single panel of it. In the story, Robin is giving a lecture to the Gotham Police Academy. Look, hear me out on this, maybe Gotham cops are so bad because they are being educated by a twelve year old in short pants. That might be part of it. Anyway, Robin tells them a story about a time when he tracked a gang back to their hideout, but was captured. They threw him down a trap door.

But luckily for Robin, they had left a bag of random sports equipment in the basement? I am not sure why? Which thug needed to store his sports equipment and decided "oh hey, I'm lazy, I'll just throw these down our trap door." Okay, the more I say about it, the more I understand it. Anyway, the equipment includes a Baseball cleat (just one), a baseball, a golf ball, and a tennis racket. Just roll with it, it'll be easier that way. Robin asks the cops and the reader if they figured out how he escaped before explaining how he did it. Again, this is not a Batman story.

One of the Greatest Batman Stories of All Time?: Disqualified.