A blind man is murdered by the cohorts of the master-criminal known as The Schemer. The police, tipped off by an anonymous call, find the corpse beside a wall bearing a message scrawled with his cane-tip: COMMISSIONER GORDON...THEY FOUND OUT I'M BATMAN. Gordon tries to contact Batman and Robin through the Bat-Signal and hot-line, but the duo are cleaning up on the Wharf Rats waterfront gang and are unaware of the call. When they do learn of the killing and turn up at the murder site, Gordon, who has since heard from several impostor "Batmen", is skeptical of their being the real Dynamic Duo. The Schemer's men, meanwhile, are keeping tabs on the situation, disguised as blind men from the "U.S. Sightless Society", reporting back in through microphones concealed in their cane-handles. Batman