Die Schwarze Fledermaus

While I'm waiting for official news to come from Moonstone Books about their upcoming Black Bat projects  (apparently a solo book, as well as the team up with Domino Lady) and from Dynamite as to whether he and/or Miss Fury will appear in the second volume of Masks to any significant degree, I'm attempting to educate myself somewhat on The Black Bat's publishing history in Germany.

From what I can gather, reprints of stories from Black Book Detective began to appear in Pabel Kriminal Roman starting with issue #100 in 1961.  Rather than print them chronologically though, there seemed to be a rather random order as to how they were made available to the German public.  Issue 100 included the story "The League of Faceless Men" from 1951, among the last Bat stories published.  His next PKR appearance, in issue 103, featured "The Murder Makers", originally published in the United States in 1948.

Evidently, it took little time for his popularity to dictate that he should become the book's main attraction.  The Black Bat's stories appeared periodically for a spell but starting with issue 119, the title "Fledermaus" (German for bat, obviously) began to take prominence on the cover and by issue #135, he became the focus of the series altogether.  It looks as though that held true until about issue 667 or so inclusively, with new material being written for the character once stories to reprint ran out.

A significant portion of the information I've been able to find was lifted from the Schwarze Fledermaus website.  See the "galerie" page for cover scans of every issue for more Bat goodness.