Consume All Media! Batman: "Chapter Thirteen: Eight Steps Down"

Joe Heath is a big fan of comic books and watching things in order. So they made this spreadsheet containing every serial, short, film, television episode, commercial, motion comic, and web series based on a comic book. Now they're watching them all. Previously, Joe watched the twelfth chapter of Batman. This time, they continue with the thirteenth.

Batman: “Chapter Thirteen: Eight Steps Down” - 14:19 (Available on Archive)

Release date: October 8th, 1943

The firemen arrive and put out the fire. Batman does not save Linda as she is taken away by henchmen.

Batman calls the police and Captain Arnold says they raided The Sphinx Club but came up empty. Batman figures the police are incompetent and goes to check it out himself. Lo and behold he discovers a secret room with a henchman in it. Batman kidnaps him and interrogates him in the Bat’s Cave.

Meanwhile, Daka makes a bigger Radium Gun.

Daka is once again told that Batman 100% completely died in the fire. Daka is legitimately pleased that they seem to be eradicating what he assumes to be an army of Batmen.

Linda is brought to Daka and she immediately calls him a racial slur. Daka wants Linda to write a note to trap Bruce or else she’ll be turned into a zombie like her uncle. She refuses, so she is put into the zombie machine.

Meanwhile, Batman investigates the room where he saw the Scooby Doo painting and finds a hidden passageway. He accidentally triggers a signal and Daka sees him on a monitor.

Daka drops Batman through a trapdoor into a spiked-wall pit.

Linda is zombified as the walls close in around Batman.

Should you watch it, though? Not much happens, but the double cliffhanger of Linda and Batman being in trouble is decent. I also really enjoy the incompetence of the villains and them thinking there are multiple Batmen. But what does “Eight Steps Down” mean? Is that the depth of the pit? How much is that in feet? I’ll even take metric. Scientists, hit me up.

Tune in next time for Batman: "Chapter Fourteen: The Executioner Strikes" (Available on Archive.)

A version of this article was previously published on The Dipp.

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