COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
Murder in Skyland
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
May, 1962
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
COVER:
Jim Mooney
PRICE: $.12 U.S.
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne);
Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Wally Dodd, the creator of the Skyland, a floating amusement park, is murdered. Batman and Robin investigate and learn that Dodd had evidence against a saboteur. They locate and capture the saboteur, Blinky Cole, but Cole didn’t kill Dodd. Batman plants a trap for Dodd’s other associates. The killer turns out to be Al Bates, a night club owner who stood to inherit half of Skyland from Dodd. Batman and Robin capture Bates, and Skyland is opened to the public.
TITLE:
The Great J'onn J'onzz Hunt
WRITER:
Jack Miller
ARTIST:
Joe Certa
INKER:
Joe Certa
CHARACTERS:
Martian Manhunter; Captain Harding; Diane Meade
PLOT:
J’onn J’onzz prevents the murders of several men in town. The murder attempts have all appeared to lack a motive, but J’onn finds each victim somewhat familiar. Finally he catches a pair of the attempted killers. They reveal that they are using the process of elimination to learn J’onn’s human identity. They believe he was aboard a plane recently, so they are testing each of the passengers. John Jones is the only remaining suspect, so J’onn fakes a rescue to convince the crooks that they are wrong. Then he rounds them up and sends them to prison.
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