Professor Zee, the scientist who had invented the Time Machine (and someone Per Degaton shot), appeared from it, which he had used to transport himself 40 years into the future, and accused Per Degaton of murder.

Batman comics were among those criticized when the comic book industry came under scrutiny with the publication of psychologist Fredric Wertham's book Seduction Of The Innocent (1954).

At times I felt like I was reading it in a gas leak with its strange figures and distorted and melting faces. The captions always mention the droning, monotone quality of his speech, which makes me imagine him less like Mark Hamill and more like Andrew Eldritch. Wertham's thesis was that children imitated crimes committed in comic books, and that these works corrupted the morals of the youth.

Several years after that, he again dons his costume to answer the Batsignal when Robin is away from Gotham City, but this adventure ends in tragedy as Batman's kick causes the criminal Cernak to fire his gun wildly, striking and killing Selina Wayne. This provided justification within the fictional world of Batman stories for DC Comics publishing Batman comic books that disregarded the character's Golden Age stories, as Batman had been presented as a single ongoing incarnation of the character since his earliest stories were published. Some probably occurred only on Earth-One (and thus are outside the scope of this chronology) while a few others don't easily fit the continuity of either world.

As we have seen, Batman has started quipping consistently and he talks aloud to himself more frequently. I thought it was really weird and out of character when Batman and Catwoman boned on a rooftop early on post-Flashpoint. Presented in a dynamic clamshell case with a separate art print by modern Batman artist Yanick Paquette, DC Comics: The Golden Age explores the roots of a pop culture phenomenon, the first instalment in a brand-new series from The Folio Society in partnership with DC Comics. which brought Batman up against the villainous Black Glove organization, which sought to drive Batman into madness.