COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
Hate of the Hooded Hangman
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
September, 1966
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); Alfred Pennyworth
PLOT:
Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson attend a wrestling match featuring the Hooded Hangman. No one knows the identity of the masked wrestler, leaving Bruce and Dick curious. Later on patrol Batman sees the Hooded Hangman leaving the scene of a burglary. Batman tries to catch him, but the wrestler claims he is innocent. A fight breaks out with the Hooded Hangman winning. He almost pulls off Batman's mask, but sirens scare him away.
Batman later learns that the Hangman wasn't involved in the robbery. He is still suspicious when he encounters the Hangman again. This time the Hangman flees from the fight just as Batman is about to win. Later Batman connects the voice of newscaster Telman Davies to the Hangman.
Batman attends the next match of the Hangman. The two masked men have a third battle with Batman losing. The Hangman removes Batman's mask exposing his face that is made up to look like Davies. The shock allows Batman to overcome his opponent and expose him as Davies. The Hangman is then forced out of town having failed in his effort to expose Batman's identity.
TITLE:
The Tantalizing Troubles of the Tripod Thieves
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Carmine Infantino
INKER:
Carmine Infantino
CHARACTERS:
Elongated Man; Sue Dibny
PLOT:
The Elongated Man sees two jewels thieves flying through the air. Puzzled he attempts to catch them. The thieves can't explain why they are flying and despite Elongated Man's efforts to stop them, they get away. Elongated Man follows them to a prop shop where he finds Zatanna. She was responsible for the flying crooks, as she summoned them to help find a stolen magic artifact.
The prop shop owner double-crosses Zatanna when he learns that the artifact is valuable. Elongated Man then helps Zatanna defeat the crooks and the shop owner, who is also an underworld fence. Zatanna then recovers the Ting Tripod and the Book of I Ching which will allow her to penetrate the dark realm to help locate her father. Though Elongated Man offers to help, Zatanna chooses to go alone.
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