BATMAN (1940) #405

Early in the morning Detective Gordon is called to a hostage crisis. He arrives just in time to prevent the hot-head Branden from leading a S.W.A.T Team raid that will surely end in disaster. Single-handedly, he manages to take out the bad guy, making him a hero in all the papers. But, James Gordon’s heroism is soon eclipsed by ‘The Batman’ a vigilante who seems to be busting up criminals up the ladder from street level dealers and muggers to distributors to dealers and bosses. But when ‘The Batman’ breaks in on a party of bigwigs at the mayor’s mansion and threatens them, he becomes Gotham’s Public Enemy #1.…