BATMAN (1940) #589

The issue picks up the night after issue #588. Batman and Nightwing are checking the Gotham clubs looking for Matches Malone. Nightwing asks Batman how it was possible that Matches has been shot, because he was an alias of Batman. Batman tells Nightwing the story: when Bruce was starting out as Batman he was trying various aliases but whenever he tried a new one people got suspicious. Eventually he came across a criminal named Matches Malone who was doing an arson job with his brother. Batman foils the job and Matches’ brother was killed a few days later.…