Detective Comics (1937) Annual #9

“Warbat” – Written by Chuck Dixon. Art by Flint Henry & James Hodgkins. Cover by James Hodgkins.

The Legends of the Dead Earth Annuals continue: On a distant planet in the far future, three kids find a humanoid war robot from a long-ago conflict. Inspired by legends of the Batman, the youths adorn it with the emblems of the Dark Knight, reactivate it, and send it to destroy the last of their generations-old enemies. But what they find is very different from what they expected.

48 pages, full color. Cover price $2.95.