Batman #212

Batman #212 (On Sale: April 17, 1969) has a nice Irv Novick cover.

The full-length Batman tale "Baffling Deaths of the Crime-Czar"Secret" is by Frank Robbins, Irv Novick and Joe Giella. Batman and Robin seek to protect a Gotham City crime kingpin Li'l Studs who has recently been released from the hospital.

Quirk, a lieutenant of Studs, hires three assassins to kill his boss. However, a power outage at the hospital causes an experimental pacemaker in Studs to fail, causing his death. Since Studs died of natural causes, Quirk refuses to pay the assassins. They decide to go after Batman to earn their pay. Batman outwits the killers and discovers that Quirk was the instigator of the attacks. Reprinted in Showcase Presents: Batman Vol. 4 TPB.

Edited by Julius Schwartz.