Comic Title: Showcase Presents the Brave and the Bold Batman Team-Ups Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2007
On Sale Date: January 24, 2007 Direct Market Date January 24, 2007
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #10 (#214)

Direct Market Date January 24, 2007
Source: ComicList, New Releases List for Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 528
Editor: Bob Joy

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "War of the Cosmic Avenger"
Pages: 24

Feature(s):
Batman (of Earth-1)
Green Lantern (Hal Jordan of Earth-1)

Writer: Bob Haney
Artist: J. Winslow Mortimer

Reprinted From:
Brave and the Bold #69 (1966)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #188; next appearance in Justice League of America #52)
• Green Lantern (last appearance in Green Lantern #49; next appearance in Justice League of America #52)

Supporting Character(s)

• Commissioner Gordon (last appearance in Batman #188; next appearance in Detective Comics #359)

Villain(s)

• Time Commander (last appearance in Brave and the Bold #59; no further appearances)
• Cosmo (a humanoid; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Dr. Elijah Carruthers and Dr. Logan (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Batman appears on the streets of Gotham City, immobilized by an iron bat attached to his back. Police are unable to remove the iron bat, so Green Lantern is summoned. GL uses his power ring to free Batman. As GL leaves town, he sees Batman flying in his whirly-bat. GL then realizes that the person he freed was an imposter. Batman suspects the Time Commander.

Batman's guess is correct. The Time Commander used the iron bat to store power from Green Lantern's ring. Using that power he is able to bring a humanoid named Cosmo to Earth. Cosmo was created by Dr. Elijah Carruthers, then banished into limbo. Time Commander plans to use Cosmo for his own purposes, but the humanoid turns against him, forcing the villain to flee into another dimension.

Batman and Green Lantern battle Cosmo on the streets of Gotham City. GL's ring is powerless to stop the creature. Batman learns that Carruthers is alive, and Cosmo is searching for him. Batman finds him first as a patient at a nursing home. The Caped Crusader disguises himself as Carruthers in order to trick Cosmo.

The Time Commander appears again intending to take control of the humanoid. Batman stops him, but his ruse is exposed. Fortuantely the real Dr. Carruthers arrives with a formula that when combined with GL's ring sends Cosmo back into limbo.