If he’s “Son of Bat Jr.” doesn’t that make him Bat III ?
This little fellow appears in the nameplate of the acronymically-suggestive magic periodical Son Of Bat Jr. :
(Our copies of this periodical are stuffed with interesting ephemera like this:
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And why would our little winged-mouse friend trace such a lengthy lineage? Apparently the publisher, Lloyd Jones, was much too creative to restart a publication with anything as mundane as “New Series…” What began as The Bat:
Note his appearance at the left on the nameplate of Son of Bat Jr.
Was reborn as Bat Jr., and then eventually Son of Bat Jr.
Finally — and perhaps inevitably — it became Bat Droppings.
Notes For Bibliophiles 