COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
The Joker's Last Laugh
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
October, 1964
WRITER:
John Broome
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Joe Giella
EDITORS:
Julius Schwartz
COVER:
Carmine Infantino; Joe Giella
PRICE: $.12 U.S.
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne);
Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon; Joker
PLOT:
The Joker begins a new crime spree using special loco weed dust to cause fits of uncontrolled laughter in his victims. Batman and Robin are similarly affected and can not pursue the crook, until they take anti-histimines.
Once they are immune to the dust, Batman tracks down the Joker outside a suburban police station. Batman locks the Joker in the jail cell, only to find that the police station is really a cleverly designed trap by his opponent. Batman and Robin are then trapped inside the cell. Batman whittles a key from a chair leg, then escapes and captures the Joker.
TITLE:
The Elongated Man's Other-World Wife
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Carmine Infantino
INKER:
Sid Greene
CHARACTERS:
Elongated Man; Sue Dibny
PLOT:
Ralph Dibny awakens one night to witness his wife Sue leave with house with an alien. Ralph follows Sue to a cave where he is knocked unconscious. Ralph wakes up in his bed. Sue claims that he must have been dreaming about the alien.
Ralph isn't sure, so he finds the cave and footprints he left the night before. This time he carefully reenters the cave, avoiding being knocked out. Inside he finds aliens, one of whom resembles Sue. The aliens claim to be duplicating humans.
The aliens capture Ralph in a glass cage, but he escapes. Before the ensuing battle is over, Sue stops the fight and reveals the alien invasion is a hoax desgined for Ralph's birthday. Ralph doesn't tell her that he knew she was not an alien because of the tan she had gotten that morning.
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