I don't know who he is behind that mask of his, but I do know when we need him... and we need him now!

That pompous waddling master of foul play. That criminal maestro of a thousand ubiquitous umbrellas.

In the meantime, if it is the Joker that we're up against, that clown prince of crime, there's only one man who can handle this. I don't have to tell you who.

It was a sad day indeed when the word 'parole' was coined.

You'll never guess who's on the loose. Your old archenemy. The Riddler.

Right, Chief O'Hara, the Riddler. That infernal prince of puzzlers who's outwitted us a dozen times.

These millionaires... its hard for us to comprehend the sort of lives they lead.

Oh, Bonnie, get me my good friend millionaire Bruce Wayne. I expect he'll be at his stately residence, Wayne manor.

Chief O'Hara, are you anxious to be transferred to the Department of Sanitation?

There are those who came to this Batcave and never left.

A catalog taken from a department store... a catamaran taken from the Nautical Society... three mittens taken from a fancy apartment. Hah! What, eh, what does all that spell out to you, O'Hara?

Umbrella's, the absolute sign. We're dealing with that waddling pirate of plunder, the Penguin himself. Or... do we deal with him?

When facing an adversary like the Countess of Criminality, there is only one man who can deal with, and eventually overcome that threat to our security...

We are all forever in debt to the Dynamic Duo, so intrepid and yet so... incognito.

Bad news. Batman Egghead is back with a carton full of crime.

I can't conceive of what happened to those three milionaires. It's all too incredible, but Gotham City now belongs to Chief Screaming Chicken.

The moment we've dreaded for years has arrived: this time... we're going to have to solve a case... ourselves.

Fair weather or foul, dog days or a monsoon, who else can we call in such a crisis? And who else will answer?

I know we've been working the Caped Crusader overtime lately, but I feel I'd be shirking my duty to the populous of Gotham City if I didn't call on his help in this dire crisis.

Your hanky-panky won't work with me, young lady.

Where is Chief O'Hara? What have you done with him, you diabolical Mata Hari? If you've harmed a hear on O'Hara's head, I'll have you in jail for the rest of your life.

Alfred, at the risk of sounding pompous: experience with women and experience with wives are two vastly different things.

Well, Batman, you've done it again. May I shake your glove?

Gotham City owes the Dynamic Duo a debt which can never be repaid.

Are you you thinking what I'm thinking, Chief O'Hara?

Who knows what disaster lies ahead when a man of the Mad Hatter's twisted tendencies is loose in Gotham City. And who knows what lies in store for you, Batman, he'd stop at nothing to add that cowl to his horrific horde of headpieces.

Looking back, Chief O'Hara, it's hard to remember how we operated at all before those two masked Samaritans appeared on the scene.

Luck had nothing to do with it, Joker! Your warped criminal mind is no match for the wits of Batman and Robin! They'll outsmart you every time.

That's enough! You know I'm violently opposed to police brutality.

Alert your anti-lunatic squad. If Batman won't help us, we'll do it ourselves. Bring in millionaire Bruce Wayne... in a straight jacket.

We were just discussing a criminal, Mr. Reid, with whom you are no doubt familiar - The Green Hornet - from your own bailiwick.

In times like these there's only one man who can help us solve the problem: Bruce Wayne.

One of our officers was forced to shoot Batman this afternoon. And the Boy Wonder has become one of Gotham City's Ten Most Wanted Men.

I'll explain later, but thank heaven!

Batman! Oh, it's really you!

The Joker's been too quiet, Batman, I'm worried. A whole day and nothing's happened.

He insists all available police surround Gotham City penetentiary as a massive escape is in the offing. Certain forces will attempt to spring Penguin, Riddler, Egghead and the Siren.

Barbara, a good librarian is a calm librarian.

My daughter Barbara had no right to call you with the red phone, Batman, it precipitated the first real argument we've ever had.

Gotham City is in too much danger right now for the police commisioner to take a leisurely lunch.

That's right, Chief O'Hara, a frightening theft from the Gotham City museum. But what makes it even more frightening is who perpetrated it. From all descriptions, apparently Olga, Egghead, and that band of Bessarovian Cossacks.

Very well, Dynamic Duo, I leave the decision in your gloves.

Tanks in the street, a horse in my outer office... Has the whole world gone batty? Ha, ha, just an expression, Batman. No slight intended.

The prison matron isn't named Mrs. Frisk for nothing, Chief O'Hara. Besides, the warden had special polka-dot cells painted for them. They won't blend into that background.

A Batfight seldom takes more than forty seconds, and they're already half an hour late.

Batman, how could you have opened a vault, to which you didn't even know the combination, in three seconds flat?

A thought strikes me... So dreadful I scarcely dare give it utterance...

He gave us a signal.

This is Commissioner Gordon! I want him taken alive! I repeat: Any man who opens fire on Jack Napier will answer to me!

Thanks for the saving the day, Batman. I'm afraid the circus gang is back.

Armed robbery, double homicide, has a taste for the theatrical, like you. Leaves a calling card.

You really started something. Bent cops running scared, hope on the streets.

I never said thank you.

Who are you?

Commissioner Loeb set up a massive task force to catch you. He thinks you're dangerous.

I'm no rat! In a town this bent, who's there to rat to anyway?

I'm gonna need a cup of coffee.

Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A Dark Knight.

You don't watch a whole lot of news, do you, Mr. Wayne?

Everyone knows you're Gotham's White Knight.

They'll hunt you.

You should have thought of that before you let the clown out of the box.

Well, maybe Batman will save you.

What's he hiding under that make-up?

If I didn't work with cops you investigated while you were making your name at I.A. I'd be working alone. I don't get political points for being an idealist, I have to do the best I can with what I have.

We got you, you son of a bitch!

The Batman has to come back.

I knew Harvey Dent. I was his friend. And it will be a very long time before someone... inspires us the way he did. I believed in Harvey Dent.

I never cared who you were... but shouldn't the people know the hero whot saved them?

They know who it was; it was the Batman.

Bruce Wayne?

How many of you are there?

Good to see you playing with others again.

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