Detective Comics #31

 This next issue mentions a criminal known as The Monk. Giving the villains identifiable names, will help readers thoughts on creating rivalries and admirable foes. This will make way for many notable villains in the upcoming comic books.

Aha! New York..not Gotham....

The story opens with The Batman going from rooftop to rooftop on the buildings in New York almost if he is looking for something. He sees a young woman in a trance approaching a man on the street. The man cries for help and a lasso secure the man under his arms and he is lifted to safety. The man is hoisted up on top of a utility pole and told to stay put.

The Batman recognizes the young woman, it is Bruce Wayne's fiance, Julie Madison.

Fiance? Who knew?

Julie Madison awakens from her trance unaware where she is and who this man dressed as a bat is?

Is it possible that the public, at this time isn't aware The Baman exists? Only The law and the unlawful?

The Batman doesn't utter a word to Julie Madison until he get her home, and tell her to let Bruce Wayne know everything that has happened.

The Next morning when Bruce Wayne honors a request to visit Julie Madison, she tells him she saw a man dressed as giant bat. Bruce in astonishment tells Julie that she needs to see Dr. Trent right away. Dr. Trent believes she was hypnotized and suggests an ocean voyage. In fact he even suggests the destination, Paris and then to Hungary, The Land of Werewolves. 

Bruce Wayne thought this to be very odd indeed, Land Of Werewolves? Bruce Wayne tells Julie Madison it almost seemed like Dr. Trent was hypnotized himself. Bruce Wayne purchases the ticker for her and sends her off.

Bruce Wayne heads back to the Wayne Mansion and prepares to follow her As The Batman. In a secret hangar he unveils two of his newest weapons, a Baterang - fashioned after the Australian boomerang and the Batgyro a single seated flying machine.

The first appearance of the iconic baterang! And the first inclination of the Bat Plane

As The Batman takes the skies, the Batgryo resembles a giant flying bat and strike fear to the people of New York. The Batman takes his Batgyro out to see and while hovering over the Lunar Lady, the Ocean ship carrying Julie Madison, he sets the Batgyro to autopilot and boards the ship.

Julie Madison is shocked to see The Batman but Julie explains why she is on the ship. After Julie tell The Batman of her ordeal, a man in a robe that The Batman recognizes as The Monk approaches with a staring gaunt that hypnotizes The Batman to where he cannot move. With his tremendous will power and strength, The Batman is able to throw a Baterang at The Monk. The Monk evades the baterang but the spell is broken. 

The Batman leaps on the rope of his Batgyro to get to Paris and The Monk.

Now wait a second, The Monk was on the ship, why would Batman board his Batgyro to go to Paris to beat The Monk if The Monk is right in front of him? Story flaw?

So The Batman now in Paris look for Julie Madison and The Monk. After search the city of Paris, he finds Julie. But The Batman is met with a gigantic ape and is toss through a sliding door into a gigantic net.

The Batman is now trapped in a net that is being lowered by The Monk into a deadly snake pit.

Batman takes his Baterang, takes aim and the Baterang hits the lever-- stopping the net from being lowered, and in the same flight smashes into a glass chandelier. As glass pieces of the chandelier fall, The Batman catches a glass shard in his gloved hands.

The Monk grabs the lever and sends the netted Batman downwards toward the snake pit once again. The Batman uses the glass shard and slices the net apart and make his get away from the danger below. 

The Batman races after The Monk but The Monk hits another switch and barred cage falls and traps the Batman within. As The Monk lowers the gigantic ape into the caged area with The Batman, he tells The Batman he will send Julie way to Hungary to be fed to his werewolves.

The Batman climbs up the rope that lowered the gorilla, as a guard takes aim at The Batman. The Batman uses his baterang and knicks the gun from the guards hand. The Batman races to rope ladder hanging from the hovering Bat-Plane.

So the Batgyro is now formally called the Bat-Plane.

As The Monks car heads towards Hungary, The Batman flies above him and prepares to lower himself on to the speeding car. Once on top of the moving car, The Batman throws a gas pellet in the car. The car swerves into a tree, apparently killing The Monk, but The Batman is able to save Julie Madison. The Batman uses the rope ladder hanging from the Bat-Plane and carries Julie Madison inside and he set a course for Hungary to deal with The Monk

Now wait, who was driving the car if The Monk escaped? The End tells us to see what happens next with The Monk in the next episode. So here is a continuing storyline that is extended to the next issue, the first one of it's type featuring The Batman

TO BE CONTINUED