BATMAN (1940) #357

Featuring the first appearance of Jason Todd. The Squid arrives in Gotham City, intent on taking over its underworld and trap the Batman. It was a familiar story. A circus owner was threatened by a mobster offering crooked protection. Refusing to give in to the criminal’s demands, the owner unwittingly put a target on the heads of his star performers, a husband and wife trapeze act. A few days later, a young boy discovered that his parents had been brutally murdered.…