David Vern Reed

[6] In the 1940s, he wrote such science fiction stories as the novella "The Metal Monster Murders" in Mammoth Detective (vol.

[4][9] Reed wrote such key stories as "The Birth of Batplane II" in Batman #61 (Nov. 1950),[10][11] "The Joker's Millions" and "Two-Face Strikes Again", the latter two featuring the return of the original villains introduced by Kane and writer Bill Finger.

He also wrote for glossy magazines including Argosy, Collier's, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and Mademoiselle.

Initially ignoring the character's large rogues gallery, he engaged the superhero in a series of bizarre mysteries such as "The Daily Death of Terry Tremayne"[18] and "The Underworld Olympics '76!

[22] Critic Chris Sims of ComicsAlliance praised that story in 2012, noting "The price of Batman’s heroism, the guilt that he feels for being personally responsible for the victim showing up at the scene of one of his exploits, the lengths to which he’s willing to go to make sure that this person isn’t just another (literally) faceless victim, the desire to make sure he has the right killer — they’re all very modern ideas.