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TITLE:
The Dawn Patrol Crimes
COVER DATE:
May, 1947
WRITER:
Edmond Hamilton
ARTIST:
Bob Kane
INKER:
Ray Burnley
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
COVER:
Jack Burnley; Charles Paris
PRICE: $.10 U.S.
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne);
Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner Gordon
PLOT:
Batman is called to help track a gang of thieves stealing radium from the Ross Radium Company. While trailing a suspicious plant worker, Batman is nearly killed. He later confronts the worker, Limpy, and learns that the man is part of the gang.
Batman disguises himself as Limpy and infiltrates the gang. He is discovered and left to die in a burning building. Robin helps him escape. Then the two get help from a group of antique aircraft pilots to track down the gang leaders. When the gang is rounded up, Batman exposes the gang boss as Smythe the radium company manager.
TITLE:
The Voices of Spooky Sommers
WRITER:
Unknown
ARTIST:
Harris Levy
INKER:
Harris Levy
CHARACTERS:
Air Wave; Static
PLOT:
Bob Russell, an honest man, is forced to take a loan from loan shark Duke Dugan to help pay for his daughter's medical bills. When Russell misses one payment, Dugan forecloses and repossesses Russell's furniture.
Air Wave learns about Russell's misfortune. He decides to help by planting the idea that the furniture is worth millions in the mind of gang boss Spooky Sommers. At auction, Spooky bids heavily for the furniture, then begins feuding with Dugan. Air Wave breaks up the fight and apprehends the crooks, but not before earning Russell enough money to pay his bills.
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