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Detective Comics (vol. 1) #27 (May 1939):
“The Case of the Chemical Syndicate”
by Bill Finger, Bob Kane (as Rob't Kane)

Detective Comics (vol. 1) #27

Title: “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate”

Medium: comic

Cover date: May 1939

Publisher: DC
Written by: Bill Finger
Art by: Bob Kane (as Rob't Kane)


11 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Batman Batman (Bruce Wayne) hero
CBR Scale: ICBR Scale: S Episcopalian / Catholic (lapsed); atheist
Batman family; Quinntets...  DC 11,112
Commissioner Gordon Commissioner Gordon supporting character
CBR Scale: U Protestant
GCPD; The Mystery Analysts of Gotham City DC 2,797
Paul Rogers supporting character
 indeterminate  [Lambert's business partner; saved by Batman in 1st case] DC 1
GCPD GCPD (Gotham City Police Department) supporting character group
  [police department] DC 1,307
Jennings
(9-panel cameo)
villain scientist
CBR Scale: I manifestly non-religious
[assistant; chemist] DC 1
Alfred Stryker
(8-panel cameo)
villain scientist
CBR Scale: I manifestly non-religious
[business owner; chemist] DC 1
unnamed assassin in pinstripe suit
(7-panel cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: I manifestly non-religious
[2nd foe Batman ever fought] DC 1
Lambert, Jr.
(6-panel cameo)
supporting character
 indeterminate  [son of murdered millionaire chemical industralist] DC 1
unnamed assassin in green suit
(4-panel cameo)
villain
CBR Scale: I manifestly non-religious
[first foe Batman ever fought] DC 1
Lambert
(3-panel cameo)
supporting character
 indeterminate  [solving his murder was Batman's first-published case] DC 1
Steven Crane
(2-panel cameo)
supporting character
 indeterminate  [Lambert's business partner; murdered in Batman's 1st case] DC 1