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The Bat (IV). The Bat (IV) was created by “William J. O’Sullivan,” the pseudonym of William R. Cox (Duke Bagley, Captain Satan, Tom Kincaid, Malachi Manatee, Patrolman Murphy, Phil Towne, Dan Trout, John Wade), and appeared in six stories in Knockout Magazine in 1937, beginning with “Gloves for a Ghost” (Knockout Magazine, Jan/Feb. 1937).

The Bat (IV) is Dave Porter Kennedy, a boxer and amateur detective known as “The Bat.”

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