You're everything I could possibly want in a woman... beautiful, intelligent, loyal! If I was anyone else, I'd cherish you for the rest of my life! But I can't consider our marriage real! I have a mission and you'd keep me from doing what I must! So, forgive me Talia! 
DC Special Series #15 is an issue of the series DC Special Series (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1978. It was published on July 27, 1978.
Synopsis for "Hang the Batman"
After mystery writer Archer Beaumont reportedly commits suicide, Commissioner Gordon receives a note warning Batman to find Beaumont's murderer within six days, or Beaumont himself will emerge from the grave and hang Batman till he is dead. The note is signed "(the late) Archer Beaumont," and, after Batman reads it, the words vanish from the paper in a chemical reaction and are replaced by a stick-drawing of a gallows, as in the children game of "Hang the Butcher."
Ignoring this criptic warning, Batman goes on about and continues his quest to capture the gang of a notorious criminal called Drungo. During this investigations until he finally captures the crook and his gang, Batman is reminded of the hangman message until he can't ignore the signs anymore.
The "Hang the Batman" images have turned up on the headlight of the Batmobile, on the Gotham Gazette building, on a painting, and along the semi-blacked-out streetlights of Gotham. Batman realizes the stunts smack of the gimmicks Archer Beaumont used in his fiction, and heads for the writer's mansion. There he meets Horace Hobson, Beaumont's personal secretary. Hobson tells Batman that Beaumont was found dead in a locked room, apparently committing suicide with his own gun. Batman demonstrates how the real killer forced Beaumont to open a window by pumping in choking gas, then killed him and escaped. The fingerprints on the ventilation system identify the murderer as Bucky Somoza, a gangster sent to jail after Hobson wrote a novel based on Somoza's crime and revealing how he did it. Batman captures Somoza and then gets Hobson to admit to staging the "Hang the Batman" tricks in order to get Batman to solve the mystery for him. Hobson admits that he was Beaumont's uncredited writing partner. Batman offers to help him write a new novel based on the murder of Archer Beaumont.
Appearing in "Hang the Batman"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Bucky Somoza (Single appearance)
- Drungo (Single appearance)
- Sweetback Goss (Single appearance)
- Johnny Gee (Single appearance)
- Fast Eddie (Single appearance)
- Swifty (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Gotham City Police Department
- Horace Hobson (Single appearance)
- Joshua Carlton (Single appearance)
Locations:
- Gotham City
- GCPD Headquarters
- Gotham Gazette Building
- Wayne Foundation
- Pier 44
- Hercules Club
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Vehicles:
- Batmobile
- Mocambo
Synopsis for "I Now Pronounce You Batman and Wife!"
Batman runs down small-time crook Snazzy Trope changing bulbs on a streetlight, braces him, and learns that Trope has been hired to do so by an unknown party. Returning to the Batcave, Batman is felled by knockout gas planted in a punching bag. He awakens to find himself on a tanker ship, with Ra's al Ghul pronouncing him married to his daughter Talia. After introducing Batman to his allies Lurk and Prof. Vasco Markewitch, Ra's informs Batman that they are on international waters and he locks Batman and Talia in a stateroom so that, hopefully, they will consummate the marriage.
Regretfully, Batman slugs Talia unconscious and picks his way to freedom with a dinner fork. Batman steals a helicopter and escapes the ship. Ra's puts his latest plan into motion, using the phony streetlights to emit gas that anesthetizes Gotham's population and cuts off electronic communication with the outside world. The Demon Brotherhood, in gas masks, steal loads of diamonds from the gem district, to be used in Markewich's matter/energy experiments. Batman, also gas-masked, intervenes and knocks the diamonds away from Ra's as he is preparing to board the tanker with his men. In the final struggle, Batman is shot in the arm, but he is saved by Talia, who grabs the gun and forces her father and Markewitch to board the ship, saving Batman. She then follows her father, returning to their headquarters and leaving the Batman's life again.
Appearing in "I Now Pronounce You Batman and Wife!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Ra's al Ghul
- Lurk (Single appearance)
- Professor Vasco Marke-Witch (Single appearance)
- Snazzy Trope (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Gotham City Police Department
- Alfred Pennyworth (Cameo)
- DJ Barry Dark (Single appearance)
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Synopsis for "Death Strikes at Midnight and Three"
Special prosecutor Bernie Sorrel is poisoned at a dinner he shares with Bruce Wayne, but manages to gasp out that he would get evidence he needed to put away the Milo Lewes drug ring from a blind man at midnight and three. Batman captures the phony waiter who poisoned Sorrel, but only learns that he was paid by Lewes. From his crime-computer files at the Batcave, Batman identifies the blind man as Anthony Toombs, Lewes's accountant, a man with total recall. Toombs has recently learned that Lewes himself accidentally blinded him, and now he seeks revenge.
Visiting Lewes, Batman learns that the drug czar has planted evidence on the murderer of Sorrel that will indicate a rival mobster set up the kill. However, he hears from one of Lewes's hoods that two hitmen have sighted Toombs and will kill him at midnight and three. Batman discovers Toombs and the gunsels at a movie theater showing Buster Keaton's silent classic, The General. He rescues Toombs and captures Lewes before the latter can escape in his private plane, bringing the drug kingpin to ground at last.
Appearing in "Death Strikes at Midnight and Three"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Alfred Pennyworth
- Anthony Toombs (Single appearance)
Antagonists:
- Milo Lewes (Single appearance)
- Gimp Malone (Single appearance)
- Boilerplate Thomas (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Bernie Sorrel (Single appearance; dies)
- Benjamin (Single appearance)
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Notes
- "I Now Pronounce You Batman and Wife!" is referenced in: Batman: Son of the Demon. It is reprinted in:
- "Death Strikes as Midnight and Three" is famous for being the first Batman story written in prose with illustrations. It is reprinted in: