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Comics - Ongoing - Detective Comics - Issue #228

DETECTIVE COMICS #228
COVER TAGLINE: Extra! - "How You Can Read Fingerprints!"
COVER DATE: February, 1956
COVER: J. Winslow Mortimer
PRICE: $.10 U.S.

TITLE: The Outlaw Batman
STORY ARC: None

WRITER: Bill Finger
ARTIST: Sheldon Moldoff
INKER: Charles Paris
EDITORS: Jack Schiff

CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Spade Stinson

PLOT:
While fighting a gang of crooks Batman receives a head wound. A nearby doctor checks him out and treats the injury. Over the next few nights, Batman leaves the house and commits robberies. In the morning his recollections of the robberies are just dreams. Robin stops him from committing another robbery and wakes him from a trance. Batman then returns to the doctor, who explains that there is no treatment. He recommends that Batman turn himself in for the robberies. Instead Batman exposes the doctor as Spade Stinson. Stinson had given Batman pills that caused his criminal behavior. When he stops taking the pills, Batman is able to sleep normally.

TITLE: The Machine That Captured the Past

WRITER: Jack Miller
ARTIST: Ruben Moreira
INKER: Ruben Moreira

CHARACTERS: Roy Raymond

PLOT:
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TITLE: Escape to the Stars

WRITER: Dave Wood
ARTIST: Joe Certa
INKER: Joe Certa
EDITORS: Jack Schiff

CHARACTERS: Martian Manhunter (J’onn J’onzz); Captain Harding

PLOT:
John Jones pursues a thief, Alex Dunster, who steals valuable scientific equipment. Among the items stolen by Dunster is the machine that Dr. Erdel used to bring the Martian Manhunter to Earth. Dunster, a scientific genius himself, repairs the machine and is able to transport items into space.

John locates Dunster and realizes he merely has to wait for the thief to leave before using the machine to return home. However, his sense of duty requires him to stop Dunster. In the ensuing scuffle the machine is destroyed. Dunster is apprehended, but J’onn remains trapped on Earth.

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