Batman [#1]: The Murray edition

Murray Comics' Batman [#1] was published 10 September 1982:

This is a famous cover, originally appearing on DC Comics' Batman #194:

The story contents:

Night of the Savage, originally published in Detective Comics #498, January 1981

[Allies in the Shadows], originally published in Detective Comics #499, February 1981

Secret of the Sphinx Sinister!, originally published in Detective Comics #508, November 1981

Monster, My Sweet!, originally published in Batman 344, February 1982

A Caper a Day Keeps the Batman at Bay!, originally published in Batman #312, June 1979

All of the stories in this issue have been modified to some extent. 

Night of the Savage and Allies in the Shadows are presented as a single 33-page story. The 'next issue' blurb is removed from the end of Night of the Savage, as is the splash page - and hence title page - of Allies in the Shadows.

This is  a scan of the original splash page to Secret of the Sphinx Sinister!:

The art is extended in the Murray edition:

The 'next issue blurb is omitted.

The art is also extended - and elements removed - on the splash page to Monster, My Sweet!. Here's a scan of the original page:

Compare to the version in the Murray edition:

The modification to this page is benign compared to the crude modifications on the last panel of this story. Here's a scan of the final page from Batman #344:

The Murray edition not only removes the 'next issue' blurb but extends the art on the last panel thus:

Heh. [This version of the story was recycled 12 months later in Federal Comics' Batman #6 and indeed suffered even more extensive modifications in that iteration.]

The original splash page to A Caper a Day Keeps the Batman at Bay!:

And the modified Murray version with art extended top and bottom:

This version omits the 'next issue' blurb.

It's curious that a prominent vintage 1960's cover was used for this 1980's issue. It's related to the contents inasmuch as there is a Blockbuster story in the magazine, but it is not the 1967 story. 

When this issue appeared on the stands in September 1982 it slotted in amongst a number of one-shot unnumbered Murray Comics editions of DC material. However it also inaugurated a new and final ongoing Batman series which would transition through the Federal Comics era until its demise in 1986. The Superman series of the time similarly started with two unnumbered issues.

The date ascribed is courtesy of a newsagent's pencilled information on the rear cover.