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TITLE:
Trouble, Incorporated
COVER DATE:
September, 1945
WRITER:
Alvin Schwartz
ARTIST:
Jack Burnley
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
COVER:
Dick Sprang
PRICE: $.10 U.S.
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne);
Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon
PLOT:
Dean Gray retires as the dean at Gotham University. He opens a free advice service called Trouble, Incorporated to help Gotham residents. Crooks decide to use Trouble, Incorporated by eavesdropping on the meetings. Using confidential information they obtain, the crooks commit crimes.
Batman and Robin decipher the connection between the crooks and Trouble, Incorporated. They track down one of Dean Gray's clients, Mr. Cole, who tells them about his brother, who is hiding from the police with some stolen money. Batman arrives to find the crooks robbing Cole's brother. They are initially captured, but when Dean Gray stumbles in, Batman is able to overpower the crooks.
TITLE:
Stormy Weather
WRITER:
Unknown
ARTIST:
Howard Sherman
INKER:
John Daly
CHARACTERS:
Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
PLOT:
Slam and Shorty witness a house burn to the ground after it is struck by lightning. When several other houses suffer the same fate, Slam gets suspicious. He begins investigating and learns that each house was heavily insured, but filled with junk furniture. While sifting through the rubble of one house, thugs attack him. Slam eventually realizes that the lightning was faked as part of an insurance scam by the crooks. He exposes the scam to police and apprehends the racketeers.
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