COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
The Dynamic Duo's Double-Deathtrap
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
March, 1967
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Carmine Infantino
INKER:
Sid Greene
EDITORS:
Julius Schwartz
COVER:
Carmine Infantino; Joe Giella
PRICE: $.12 U.S.
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne);
Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth
PLOT:
Trap designer Eivol Ekdal sells a new trap to gangsters to use against Batman and Robin. Robin is caught in the trap as planned, but instead of rescuing his partner Batman lets Robin escape on his own. Had Batman helped Robin, they would have both been killed by a bomb.
Batman deduces that Ekdal designed the trap. He the receives a tip concerning Ekdal's location. Batman arrives just as Ekdal is killed by another one of his clients, Yuri Melikov. Batman captures Melikov's gang, but the crook is killed by one of Ekdal's traps.
After the fight, the gangsters who tried to kill Batman and Robin return to Ekdal's hide-out. Batman defeats them as well and wraps up the case.
TITLE:
The Curious Clue of the Circus Crook
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Sid Greene
INKER:
Sid Greene
CHARACTERS:
Elongated Man; Sue Dibny
PLOT:
Elongated Man returns to the Mangum Circus where he got his start as a rubber man. He learns that the circus is going out of business because a string of robberies have followed the circus. Ralph offers to investigate and joins the circus temporarily to keep it running.
Suspecting that the thief is in the audience, Ralph coats the tickets with a luminous paint. When a robbery occurs a luminous finger print is found belonging to circus owner Bert Mangum.
Bert is arrested, but Ralph finds a hidden microphone hidden on the circus owner. He follows the signal back to Rollins, an ex-circus rubber man, who has a grudge against Mangum. Ralph apprehends the real crook and proves to police that Bert was framed.
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