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Comics - Ongoing - Detective Comics - Issue #127

DETECTIVE COMICS #127
TITLE: Pigmies in Giantland

COVER DATE: September, 1947

WRITER: Edmond Hamilton
ARTIST: Charles Paris
INKER: Charles Paris
EDITORS: Jack Schiff
COVER: Charles Paris

PRICE: $.10 U.S.

CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner Gordon; Joker

PLOT:
Dr. Agar unveils a new invention to a group of investors. The invention is shrinking gas, which Agar claims will reduce objects to one-fifth of their normal size. The investors call him a fake and walk out. Agar vows to get even.

Agar kidnaps the investors and shrinks them to tiny size. He then forces them to pay him, or he will not return them to normal. Batman and Robin follow Agar back to his secret laboratory, but are captured upon their arrival.

Batman and Robin are reduced to pigmy size and must escape from a house cat. Batman deduces that they are not really tiny. The room is specially constructed at five times normal size. Batman defeats Agar and proves that the shrinking gas was a hoax.


TITLE: Rogues and Red Hots

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: Harris Levy
INKER: Harris Levy
CHARACTERS: Air Wave; Static

PLOT:
A gang of crooks used stolen radio wave heaters to help them in their crimes. Air Wave spots the crooks while they rob heiress Miss Astrobilt. He battles the crooks, but they escape. When one of the crooks tries to steal another heater from Jimmy Sands's hot dog vending machine, the vendor captures him. Then Air Wave and Sands force the crook to reveal the location of their hide-out. Air Wave then busts up the gang.

TITLE: Modern Paul Revere

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: Howard Sherman
INKER: Howard Sherman
CHARACTERS: Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan

PLOT:
Slam and Shorty are hired for security on the set of a movie being filmed on Pirate Island. A gang of bank robbers has hidden their loot on the island, so they stage a raid to retrieve it before the movie crew finds it. Shorty is sent to the mainland to bring help. However, since he is dressed in colonial garb, the authorities believe it is a publicity stunt for the Paul Revere movie. Shorty finally gets attention when he starts a fire. The police apprehend the crooks, and Shorty earns a reward. However, the Shorty must use the reward to pay off the damage caused by the fire.

TITLE: Never-Say-Die Land

WRITER: George Kashdan
ARTIST: Curt Swan
INKER: Steve Brodie
CHARACTERS: Boy Commandos; Andre Chavard; Tex; Brooklyn

PLOT:
The Boy Commandos follow mobster Fancy-Dan Shaney, who is himself in pursuit of a man claiming to be immortal. The trail leads to a small town whose people are garbed in 16th century clothing. The boys learn that a meteor fell into a nearby lake 300 years earlier. The water from the lake made the people immortal.

Brooklyn accidentally drinks some of the water and believes himself to be immortal. He chases Shaney across town, disregarding dangers in his path. Then he learns that he only drank rain water, not lake water. He is not invulnerable. He still risks his life to save the others, who then capture Shaney. The boys leave town with their prisoners in tow. They promise not to reveal the town's existence to the world.

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