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Comics - Ongoing - Detective Comics - Issue #237

DETECTIVE COMICS #237
COVER TAGLINE: None
COVER DATE: November, 1956
COVER: Sheldon Moldoff
PRICE: $.10 U.S.

TITLE: The Search for a New Robin
STORY ARC: None

WRITER: Dave Wood
ARTIST: Sheldon Moldoff
INKER: Charles Paris
EDITORS: Jack Schiff

CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth

PLOT:
Batman must appear in public with Bruce Wayne, so he creates a dummy of Bruce. When mobsters attack, the dummy is shot and falls into the river. Witnesses including Commissioner Gordon believe Bruce is dead.

Unable to return to his old identity, Bruce becomes cab driver Barney Warren. He also tells Robin that he should operate alone because of the difficulty in being apart. However, Batman begins missing Robin and imagines other boys assuming the role. In his thoughts, Batman realizes that the other boys would never measure up to the original.

When the dummy of Bruce washes ashore, Commissioner Gordon realizes that Bruce wasn't shot. Batman concocts a tale that Bruce was hiding from mobsters. Batman can then safely give up his identity as Barney Warren and resume his Bruce Wayne role.

TITLE: Fingers of Flame

WRITER: Jack Miller
ARTIST: Ruben Moreira
INKER: Ruben Moreira
CHARACTERS: Roy Raymond; Karen Colby

PLOT:
A crook decides to hedge his bets by posing as an eccentric guest on "Impossible... But True!" and leaving the name of his partner (whom he suspects will soon turn on him) on Roy's hand in the form of a temporary tattoo. When the crook's partnership doesn't go south he panics realizing the substantial clue he just left behind on Raymond's hand. In order to expedite the temporary tattoo's removal, the crook sends his partner to trick Roy into believing that he must immerse both his hands in goldfish bowls full of water for the immediate future or else everything he touches will ignite into flames! Roy figures out that the crooks are in league with one another and that it's actually a chemical called Nitrocellulose in the fish bowls that causes the spontaneous combustion.

TITLE: The Sleuth Who Went to Jail

WRITER: Jack Miller
ARTIST: Joe Certa
INKER: Joe Certa
EDITORS: Jack Schiff

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

PLOT:
Detective John Jones is captured by a gang of crooks and taken to an underworld prison. Jones is imprisoned with rival mobsters and forced into labor. Though he could escape at any time, Jones stays put until the gang leader arrives. When the boss arrives, John is weakened by fire in the boiler room. He manages to put out the fire by knocking over the water tower. With the fire extinguished, John apprehends the gang with his martian powers.

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