Contents 1 Appearing in "The Doomsday Ball!" 2 Synopsis for "The Doomsday Ball!" 3 Notes 4 Trivia 5 See Also 6 Recommended Reading 7 Links and References

Appearing in "The Doomsday Ball!"

Featured Characters:

•  Batman 

Supporting Characters:

• Robin
• Major-General Hawkins
• Robertson Fairbanks
• Prof. Willi Von Gail
• Master Sergeant Owens
• Commissioner Gordon

Villains:

• Bertram Smith
• Big Brill

Other Characters:

• Tillie Conway
• Skinnay

Locations:

• City Hall
• The Brill Building (aka Headquarter's of Gotham's Crime Syndicate)
• Gotham Airport

Items:

• Batman employs a Mini-Laser Torch to cut through a steel door
• Smoke Capsules

Vehicles:

• The Batmobile
  
  

Synopsis for "The Doomsday Ball!"

A man named Bertram Smith recovers a lost miniaturized H-bomb from a crashed Air Force jet and sends a tape to police headquarters in Gotham, warning that he will blow the city off the map by midnight unless he receives $10 million in ransom. Only six hours remain till midnight, so there is no hope of evacuating the city. Batman and Robin are called in on the case. The two heroes enlist the aid of Big Brill, Gotham's head gangster, battling their way into his penthouse retreat before they explain their mission. Brill calls in his division chiefs to listen to the taped message from Smith and try and identify the background noises to place Smith's location. One of the men, "One-Ear," places it on his turf. Batman and Robin learn Smith's name and location from a TV repairman who fixed the tape recorder on which he prepared the message. Kids in the street outside Smith's boarding house give Batman a description of Smith's car and license number, and tell him that they broke his window with a ball in a street baseball game and were recently given a new ball by Smith. Batman has the police track down Smith's car, but the bomb, found in the trunk, is tagged with a warning not to tamper with or remove it. He and Robin finally see Smith at the airport, watching the transfer of his ransom money to a plane. Smith tries to escape the heroes, but is struck by the plane's wheels as it taxis down the runway, and dies. With his last breath, he reveals that he planted the trigger to the bomb in a rubber ball. Batman and Robin hurry back to the boarding house, where they cut open the ball Smith gave to a kid named Skinnay, find the trigger, and deactivate it just in time.

Notes

• No special notes.

Trivia

This issue contains two letters from future comicbook professionals: one from a then 15 year old Fred Hembeck and the other by 16 year old Klaus Janson.

See Also

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• Cover gallery for the Batman series

Recommended Reading

• Batman Recommended Reading

• Batman (Volume 1)
• Batman (Volume 2)
• Batman and Robin (Volume 1)
• Batman and Robin (Volume 2)
• Batman Confidential
• Batman: Gotham Knights
• Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight
• Batman: Shadow of the Bat
• Batman: Streets of Gotham
• Batman Incorporated
• Batman: The Dark Knight (Volume 1)
• Batman: The Dark Knight (Volume 2)
• Detective Comics (Volume 1)
• Detective Comics (Volume 2)
• Superman/Batman
• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Volume )

Links and References

• Batman at Wikipedia.org
• Batman at DC Comics
• Batman at DCU Guide
• Batman at IGN Comics
• Batman at Newsarama
• Batman at Dark Knight
• Batman at DC Indexes
• Batman at Comic Book Resources
• Batman Yesterday Today and Beyond
• Batman at TV Tropes

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