Batman (Vol 1)

Synopsis for ”Once Beaten, Twice Sly!”
Batman and King Faraday trail Two-Face to New Orleans during Mardi Gras. The double-faced dastard himself is admitting two men, one American and one Russian, into his hideout aboard a restored paddle-wheeler to negotiate for the binary defense code. He tells them to return later, with $22,000,000 apiece, and then he will decide who gets the code by flipping his coin. After the men leave, Batman and Faraday break in, but are trapped by laser defenses as Two-Face escapes. Batman makes a fire with a phosphorus capsule, and some of the restaurant attendants break in to extinguish the blaze and free them.

Tipped off by Two-Face’s doodle of a crown on wheels, Batman deduces that their foe will hold court on a float in the Mardi Gras parade. Two-Face does so, receiving his two bidders, taking their $44,000,000, and flipping his coin--which he catches on edge. He activates jets in his chair and escapes to a blimp advertising Double Chew Gum. Batman and Faraday see him and manage to clamber aboard the blimp. Two-Face is about to stamp Batman’s hands while the hero hangs from a hatch edge, but Batman insists he flip his coin first. Two-Face complies just as Faraday enters through a service hatch, fires, hits the spinning coin and knocks it through the hatch. Two-Face leaps after the coin, falls out of the blimp, and is lost to sight.

Batman regrets Two-Face’s loss, but tells Faraday that Two-Face took the code to the bottom of the lake with him, so Faraday should be happy. Faraday replies that he gave up the right to be happy when he took his job.

Appearing in ”Once Beaten, Twice Sly!”
Featured Characters:

Batman
Supporting Characters:

King Faraday
Selina Kyle
Lucius Fox
Tiffany Fox
Antagonists:

Two-Face (Apparent Death)
Bracket (Single appearance)
Other Characters:

Weasel (Single appearance)
Mr. Korsanoff (Single appearance)
Karlyle Krugerrand (First appearance)
Locations:

Gotham City
Wayne Foundation
Wayne Enterprises
New Orleans
Items:

Batrope
Two-Face’s Coin
Utility Belt
Notes
This story is reprinted in Tales of the Batman: Len Wein.
Trivia
This is the first time that Two-Face uses blimps as his chosen vehicle. This would later be used again on the Batman Forever movie and other comics such as Nightwing (Volume 2) #150.

Cover art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. ”Once Beaten, Twice Sly!”, script by Len Wein, pencils by Irv Novick, inks by Frank McLaughlin; Batman and King Faraday tail Two-Face to Mardi Gras, but can they stop the villain from selling the defense codes before its too late? Catwoman back-up story, ”Cat’s Paw!” Script by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Don Newton, inks by Steve Mitchell. Answer Man DC questions and answers by Bob Rozakis. Batman & Robin parody strip by Fred Hembeck.

Aug 1979

DC Comics

070989304307

314

1979

Two-Face Appearance

1st

United States

$0.40

Bronze Age

English

Magazine

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Batman Vol.1 (1940-2011)

Unwanted

~$43.95

2026-01-29

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