COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
Batman's Inescapable Doom-Trap
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
December, 1965
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
PLOT:
World-famous escape artist Carnado steals 100,000 dollars to purchase a new trap from reknowned trap designer Eivol Ekdal. Eivol's new trap seems to be unescapable, so the two men decide to test it by letting Batman try to escape.
Carnado commits another robbery and alerts Batman, so that the Caped Crusader follows him. Batman falls into the trap and is challenged to escape. The walls are unbreakable plexi-glass, and the chamber fills with poisonous gas from an electrified vent in the floor. Batman uses his utility-belt buckle to create sparks along the vent. When combined with the gas, a powerful explosion results, which shatters the plexi-glass.
Carnado and Eivol escape while Batman recovers from the explosion, but the expect Batman to find them. They hire two killers to take out Batman, but when the Dynamic Duo arrives he deduces the presence of the killers and avoids his own murder. The crooks are then apprehended.
TITLE:
Peephole to the Future
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Carmine Infantino
INKER:
Sid Greene
CHARACTERS:
Elongated Man; Sue Dibny
PLOT:
Ralph Dibny begins getting premonitions of the future. When he receives a premonition of a bank robbery, Ralph heads to the bank to stop it. Despite his knowledge of the crime, Ralph is unable to prevent the crooks from escaping.
Later, the crooks learn about Ralph's new ability. They kidnap with and use truth serum on him. They force him to reveal the winners for the day's horse races. Ralph's predictions prove correct and the crooks make a fortune at the track. When they return to their hotel hide-out Ralph predicts he will capture them. They try to kill him, but they fail and Ralph makes good on his prediction to apprehend them.
Ralph's new power eventually wears off. He traces it to a bottle of gingold extract with an impurity. Since he finished the last of it, he doubts his prognostication abilities will return.
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