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Comics - Ongoing - Detective Comics - Issue #441

DETECTIVE COMICS #441
COVER TAGLINE: None
TITLE: Judgment Day
STORY ARC: None

COVER DATE: June/July, 1974

WRITER: Archie Goodwin
ARTIST: Howard Victor Chaykin
INKER: Howard Victor Chaykin
EDITORS: Archie Goodwin
COVER: Jim Aparo

PRICE: $.60 U.S.

CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne)

PLOT:
N/A
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TITLE: The Case of the Prophetic Pictures

WRITER: Bill Finger
ARTIST: Bob Kane
INKER: Jerry Robinson
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Commissioner James Gordon; Robin (Dick Grayson)

PLOT:
Antal, an artist, paints several portraits of rich sociallites. Soon after, the portraits are shot, stabbed, and defaced. The subjects of the portraits end up dead in similar manner as well. Batman tries to prevent a killing, but the police see him making him a suspect. Eventually Batman finds the real killer, Wylie, a sociallite with debt problems. He concocted the scheme to raise the value of his paintings, but when Batman catches him, Wylie kills himself.

ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN:
Detective Comics #42

TITLE: The Carbon Copy Crimes

WRITER: Bill Finger
ARTIST: Jim Mooney
INKER: Jim Mooney
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon

PLOT:
A series of murders duplicate those surrounding Batman's first big case six years earlier. Portraits are disfigured, then the subjects of the portraits are murdered. Batman decides to use the same trap to catch this killer.

The killer arrives on schedule, but has planned for Batman's arrival on the scene. He takes Batman and Robin prisoner and reveals that he is a psychologist conducting a test. He wants to see if Batman's initial success in his first big case was the secret of his career.

Batman then tricks the killer by revealing his secret identity. A delayed radio broadcast with Batman's voice seems to prove that he is not Batman, and that the psychologist trapped the wrong man. Upset that his test has failed, the psychologist kills himself, ending the case just as the original ended.

ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted From Batman #38

REVIEW:
N/A

 

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