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Comics - Ongoing - Detective Comics - Issue #134

DETECTIVE COMICS #134
TITLE: The Umbrellas of Crime

COVER DATE: April, 1948

WRITER: Bill Finger
ARTIST: Jim Mooney
INKER: Charles Paris
EDITORS: Jack Schiff
COVER: Jim Mooney

PRICE: $.10 U.S.

CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Penguin

PLOT:
Batman and Robin see the Penguin and follow him to his hide-out. A lightning bolt saves the Penguin from capture, but destroys the hide-out and his trick umbrellas. Penguin then sets out to commit crimes using umbrellas that are not umbrellas.

Batman tries to figure out Penguin's plans. Playing a hunch, Batman stakes out the Gotham Fair. Penguin strikes several times, but Batman is only able to capture one of the crook's henchmen. Batman takes the man to the Bat-Cave for interrigation. When the crook finally talks, Batman is able to learn where Penguin will strike again. Batman then apprehends his nemesis.

TITLE: Calamity Incorporated

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

PLOT:
Calamity James Jackson and his gang are notorious for arranging accidents to distract onlookers while they rob nearby locations. Calamity James also ensures that the gang carries no metal with which Air Wave might use to tune in on them.

When Air Wave does finally catch the gang during a robbery, the gang defeats him and plans his murder. Air Wave recognizes one of the gang members as John Colebaugh, a war hero with a metal plate in his head. Air Wave uses the metal to beam messages to Colebaugh. He convinces Colebaugh to untie him, then Air Wave apprehends the gang.

TITLE: Abercrombie and the Urchins

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

PLOT:
Several boys from the Urchin Club approach Slam to tell him that racketeers have taken an interest in their midget car race. Slam and Shorty follow the crooks and learn they plan to replace one of the racers and steal the prize money.

Slam and Shorty drive two midget cars in pursuit of the crooks. They successfully stop the racketeers from winning the race, but rich boy Abercrombie wins. The Urchin Club is disappointed until Abercrombie tells them he wants to join their club.

TITLE: The Beast of London

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

PLOT:
Professor Adam Bow retrieves a rare flower from the African jungle. He believes the flower can separate the good part of man from the evil. He experiments on himself and becomes a disfigured beast which terrorizes London. The Boy Commandos try to stop the beast. An antidote allows the beast to revert back to Professor Bow and elude capture.

After several more encounters with the beast, Brooklyn follows him back to Bow's laboratory. Bow forces Brooklyn to drink the formula and become a beast too. Brooklyn is caught by police, while the beast is finally shot. The other Commandos discover Bow's laboratory and are able to get Brooklyn the antidote.

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