Batman Logo 'The Joker Goes to School'
Story Code '8715-Part 1'

by Lorenzo Semple
Batman Cast

Holy Subversion! The Joker decides to recruit high school dropouts for his gang of Bad Pennies by rigging the vending machines at Woodrow Roosevelt High School so that they dispense silver dollars and negotiable stocks and bonds instead of milk. Learning of these shenanigans from Police Commissioner Gordon, Batman arrives at the school and calls an assembly of the student leaders: including Dick Grayson, Pete, and Susie, the head cheerleader. The Joker then appears, but when the Caped Crusader attempts to arrest him for loitering on school grounds, the Clown Prince of Crime manages to get off on a mere technicality. Meanwhile, in a bar across town, a trick jukebox with a double-barrelled shotgun enables two of the Joker’s henchmen, Nick and Two-Bits, to rob the bar's receipts from the cash-register. Later, at the Joker’s hideout in the One-Armed Bandit Novelty Company, the Homicidal Harlequin and his Bad Pennies - including Susie - hatch a blackmail scheme involving stolen exam papers, and then prepare to set a trap to capture the Dynamic Duo using another rigged vending machine equipped with shackles and sleeping gas…

Adam West (Bruce Wayne / Batman), Burt Ward (Dick Grayson / Robin), Alan Napier (Alfred Pennyworth), Madge Blake (Aunt Harriet Cooper), James Hamilton (Police Commissioner Gordon), Stafford Repp (Police Chief O’Hara), William Dozier (Narrator), Donna Loren (Susie), Kip King (Nick), Greg Benedict (Two Bits), Bryan O'Byrne (Principal Schoolfield), Tim O'Kelly (Pete), Cherie Foster (Cheerleader #1), Linda Harrison (Cheerleader #2), Sydney Smith (Vandergilt), Glenn Allan (Herbie), Donna Di Martino (Third girl), Dick Bellis (Joe), Joan Parker (Fourth girl), Breeland Rice (Cop), Jim Henaghan (Fulton), Cesar Romero (The Joker)

Directed by Murray Golden
Produced by Howie Horwitz
Executive Producer William Dozier
Batman Created by Bob Kane


TX (US):
2nd March 1966

Bat-Notes:
*Featuring Bruce Wayne (a.k.a. Batman), Dick Grayson (a.k.a. Robin), Alfred Pennyworth, Aunt Harriet Cooper, Police Commissioner Gordon and Police Chief O’Hara