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Comics - Ongoing - Detective Comics - Issue #263

DETECTIVE COMICS #263
COVER TAGLINE: None
TITLE: The Secret of the Fantastic Weapons
STORY ARC: None

COVER DATE: January, 1959

WRITER: Bill Finger
ARTIST: Sheldon Moldoff
INKER: Charles Paris
EDITORS: Jack Schiff
COVER: Curt Swan; Stan Kaye

PRICE: $.10 U.S.

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

PLOT:
Batman and Robin trail two criminals to a native village in Mexico. The natives are using several advanced machines which are alien in origin. The crooks have met up with a professor and convince the natives to capture the Dynamic Duo.

While Batman and Robin are trapped, the crooks escape with the machines. Batman convinces the tribe leader that he is noble and is released. The chief gives him a medallion and explains the alien origins of the machines.

Batman and Robin then trail the crooks back to the city. The crooks are committing crimes with the devices. Batman breaks the medallion which deactivates the machines, allowing Batman and Robin to stop the crooks.

TITLE: The Man Who Made Dreams Come True

WRITER: Jack Miller
ARTIST: Ruben Moreira
INKER: Ruben Moreira
CHARACTERS: Roy Raymond

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Crime Conjurer

WRITER: Jack Miller
ARTIST: Joe Certa
INKER: Joe Certa
CHARACTERS: Martian Manhunter; Captain Harding

PLOT:
Detective John Jones has been assigned to stop a new criminal, the Conjurer. While on the assignment, Captain Harding, assigns a Dick Ruark to film the detective. When Jones catches up to the crook he is unable to use his martian powers with Ruark close by which allows the villain to escape.

On one encounter, Ruark is knocked out which allows Jones to become the Martian Manhunter and catch the Conjurer. However, when Ruark is revived he realizes his camera was running. To prevent his secret from being revealed, Jones tampers with the film and splices in images from a sci-fi film. The film can no longer reveal his secret.

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