BATMAN (1940) #597

At long last, after the death of Bruce Wayne’s friend Jeremy Samuels, the shooting of Lew Moxon and a handful of epic battles, it comes down to this: the final showdown between Batman and Zeiss. While chasing down routine criminals, Batman finds himself distracted by thoughts of Philo Zeiss, at least until he discovers a body wrapped in a carpet with its neck broken. He begins to track down the deceased, via the carpet he was rolled up in. The next morning, Bruce Wayne gets a ‘phone message from Mallory Moxon, who feels he’s been ignoring her, which, Sasha insists, is pretty much the truth.…