Batboy

A mysterious midget crime-fighter - clad in the uniform of a baseball player with his identity concealed by a catcher's mask - who helps Robin apprehend the Tapper Nolan mob in March 1955. Batboy, who operates from a secret cavern headquar­ters known as "the dugout" and employs a versatile arsenal of bat-weapons to aid him in his war against crime - induding a "baseball bat-arang," a "jet­ powered battering-ram bat," a "parachute-bat," a quill-shooting "porcupine bat," and a weapon that releases a large net, termed a "web bat" - is in reality Midge Merrill, a middle-aged midget acrobat, once a member of a three-midget circus acrobatic team known as the Mighty Mites, whose vendetta against Tapper Nolan began years ago, when Nolan, then a circus roustabout, deliberately set fire to the circus lent to divert attention while he robbed the gate receipts, as the result of which both of Merrill's midget partners died in the fire. With Batman away on a special as­signment throughout most of the adventure, Robin joins forces with Batboy to apprehend the Nolan mob, after which Merrill happily abandons his career as a crime-fighter for a job as batboy with a hometown baseball team.