Cover Art - Fred Guardineer
Pencils & Inks - Bob Kane
Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Background Pencils & Lettering - Sheldon Moldoff
Doctor Death returns from the grave having escaped the fire that burned down his lair. He has begun threatening the wealthy of the city and demanding killing them if they don't give in to his demands. He is poisoning them with something that makes them appear to be dying of a disease that turns them purple. The Batman gets wind of this and begins staking out the homes of the victims-to-be to catch Doctor Death or his evil Cossack accomplice in the act.
There's nothing really of note in this story. It's a good story and has some good action, but it's really just more of the same. Doctor Death ends up being in disguise and when The Batman takes off his mask, he is hideously burned and disfigured.
A couple of points of interest:
1. The car The Batman is using is still the red one, but it seems to have grown a little longer and is beginning to "morph" into the shape of the Batmobile. It's also referred to for the first time as "his special built high-powered auto."
2. He snaps a guy's neck again and kills him by kicking him.
This was a 10-page story that was published in Detective Comics Number 30 in August of 1939.
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