COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
Two Batmen Too Many
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE: December, 1965
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Joe Giella
EDITORS:
Julius Schwartz
COVER:
Carmine Infantino; Joe Giella
PRICE: $.12 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne), Robin (Dick Grayson); Atom; Elongated Man
PLOT:
After stealing the Kimber Gem Collection, Ed "Numbers" Garvey believes that Batman is watching him trying to learn the location where the gems are hidden. Garvey decides to leave town, only to find the road to his mountain cabin blocked by a landslide. He finds a cave with clay figures inside. When light strikes a crystal, the figures come to life. The figures, one big, one small, appear in Batman costumes and are subserviant to Garvey.
Numbers returns to Gotham with his new slaves and utilizes them in his crimes. When the Batmen claim to need revitalization from gems, Garvey suspects trouble. His gang knocks out the Batmen and discovers them to be Atom and Elongated Man in disguise. The real Batman breaks in before the crooks can learn the Atom's real identity. Then Batman is able to recover the stolen gems by deducing Garvey's hiding place.
TITLE:
The Art Gallery of Rogues
WRITER:
John Broome
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Sid Greene
EDITORS:
Julius Schwartz
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon
PLOT:
After being rejected for a job as publicity agent for the Alfred Foundation, Roy Rennie creates some free publicity for Bruce Wayne by staging an accident. When Bruce learns he was set up, he visits Rennie, only to find the publicist knocked unconscious. Bruce investigates the attack as Batman finding a clue leading him to the Lathrop Art Gallery.
Batman questions Lathrop about Rennie. His suspicion is aroused, so Batman waits outside the gallery. After two goons attack him, Batman reenters the building and apprehends Lathrop. Batman then explains to Commissioner Gordon that Lathrop stole artwork and passed it off as that of one of his members in order to obtain an Alfred Foundation grant. Rennie stumbled upon the scheme and was attacked. After the crooks are exposed, Rennie tells Bruce that he will quit trying to earn a position as the Foundation publcity agent.
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