Dating Federal Comics' Batman team up series

Federal Comics' Batman and... is a messy series to index due to confusion and errors on the part of the Federal editors but I think I've sorted it out. Let's begin by laying out the issues concerned in chronological published order:

Batman and Metamorpho The Element Man #1, December 1982 (Murray Comics/Black logo)

Batman and The Catwoman #2, March 1983 (Murray Comics/Red logo)

Batman and the Creeper #3, April 1983 (Federal Comics/Murray the Cat logo)

Batman and Adam Strange #4, July 1983 (Federal Comics/Red and Blue logo)

Batman and Hawkman #5, December 1983 (Federal Comics/Red and Blue logo)

Batman and the Flash #6, February 1984 (Federal Comics/Black logo)

Batman and The Outsiders #7, April 1984 (Australian DC Edition)

Batman and The Outsiders #8, June 1984 (Australian DC Edition/Federal Comics)

Batman and Batman Album #NN, June 1984 (Australian DC Edition/Federal Comics)

Batman and Sgt. Rock #NN, July 1984 (Australian DC Edition/Federal Comics)

Batman and The Outsiders #9, September 1984 (Australian DC Edition/Federal Comics)

Batman and Nemesis #NN, September 1984 (Australian DC Edition/Federal Comics)

Batman and The Outsiders #10, October 1984 (Australian DC Edition/Federal Comics)

Notes:

1. Batman and... is a team up series based on material originally appearing in the DC series The Brave and the Bold. The Murray and Federal issues used the Batman team up story as the headline cover feature, and the rest of the issues would feature stories with the supporting character (although some issues included other Batman stories too).

2. This series is confusing because the numbering of the series transitions from one title to another - from Batman and... #6 to Batman and The Outsiders #7. 

3. Confusing things further is the three unnumbered Batman and ... issues. Unmoored from their series numbering, collectors have understandably deemed them to have been published before Batman and the Outsiders #7.

4. The problem begins with the publication of Batman and The Outsiders #7. This edition maintains the Collector's Item! First Issue! banners, and really should have been the first issue in a new Federal Comics series. If this had been done the above lineup would have seen the three unnumbered issues numbered as Batman and Batman Album #7, Batman and Sgt. Rock #8 and Batman and Nemesis #9.  

5. Federal's edition of The Brave and The Bold #200, the final issue in the series, also appears to have messed things up unnecesarily. Awkwardly cover-titled titled Album starring Batman and Batman (there is no indicia title, but it likely would have been Batman and Batman), it seems to have been issued without clarity as to its status. They may have intended this as a follow-up to Murray's Batman Album #51, or a companion issue to DC Comics Presents Superman and the Golden Age Superman, published a month earlier in May 1984. Regardless of their intentions, it's clearly the first of the three unnumbered Batman and... issues , and to my mind belongs to this series, even if it's as an auxiliary 'Annual'. 

6. Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk Album can also be considered part of this mix, similarly to Album starring Batman and Batman. This issue was published January 1984, between Batman and... #5 and #6. It's understandable why this was issued as an unnumbered issue, given the main source material, and it operates like a related Annual to the mother series. However, it does end with a reprint from The Brave and the Bold #196, from the same period as the other Batman and... issues.

7. Batman and The Outsiders #11 onwards appears to be published mostly regularly at two month intervals.

The various Federal Comics logos referenced above accord datewise with my schema sampled via the Superman series in this period.