COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
The Nemesis from Batman's Boyhood
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
December, 1967
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Joe Giella
EDITORS:
Julius Schwartz
COVER:
Carmine Infantino; Neal Adams
PRICE: $.12 U.S.
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne);
Robin (Dick Grayson); Alfred Pennyworth; Harriet Cooper
PLOT:
Batman and Robin encounter the Blitzkrieg Bandit, a crook who stays in town for two days before moving on to another city. Batman nearly has the crook defeated, then sees his face. Suddenly, Batman is unable to finish off his foe, which allows the bandit to escape.
After the fight, Batman explains to Robin that the crook is Bart Lambert, a former school bully that often harassed Bruce as a young boy. As a result, Bruce has a mental block that causes him to freeze up when fighting the bandit. During their next fight, the mental block kicks in again, and Batman is defeated.
Robin follows the Blitzkrieg Bandit to his hideout. When Batman regains consciousness, he receives a radio message from Robin indicating that Lambert has shot the Boy Wonder. Believing that Robin has died, Batman is able to overcome his paralyzing fear and finally bests Lambert. Robin then shows up alive, admitting that he pretended to be dead to help Batman overcome his weakness.
TITLE:
Case of the Colorless Cash
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Gil Kane
INKER:
Sid Greene
CHARACTERS:
Elongated Man; Sue Dibny
PLOT:
After a series of armored car robberies, the Elongated Man hides in the back of one of the cars during transport. When a cycle gang tries to rob the truck, Ralph stops them. However, when the money is delivered, it has been replaced by colorless paper.
Puzzled, the Elongated Man returns home and finds that his wife Sue is in possession of a 20-dollar bill that has also lost all its color. Ralph returns to the bank and learns that the colorless paper was thrown away, but is now missing from the trash.
Ralph then examines Sue's bill and finds traces of radiation. The Elongated Man traces the radition back to the crooks who used the radiation to remove the money from the bills and are now restoring the color since they retrieved the cash from the trash. Ralph captures the crooks, and the money is returned.
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