COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
The Mystery of the Batman Bus
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
August, 1958
WRITER:
n/a
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
COVER:
Curt Swan; Stan Kaye
PRICE: $.10 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Batman and Robin rescue Bennet Carson from the Red Gloves Gang. Carson is head of a citizen's committee investigating the gang. During the fight Carson gets amnesia. He remembers that he was on the Batman Tour Bus and had discovered something important, but he can't recall the details. Carson gets back on the bus and takes the tour again to jog his memory. The gang attacks him again, but Batman is nearby to protect him.
The sight-seeing tour works. Carson recalls that he was the head of the gang. He had double-crossed them on the last job. Carson turns on Batman and traps him in a hot-air balloon. The gang returns again and fights Carson. Batman escapes the balloon, then he apprehends both Carson and the gang.
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TITLE:
Bruce Wayne -- Batman
WRITER:
n/a
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Bruce Wayne joins the members of a Club Committee at a private auction on a small island. The committee members are each dressed in costume. Bruce has been given a Batman costume because of the many times that he was suspected of being Batman.
When crooks try to rob the premises, Bruce tries to stop them without revealing his secret identity. Despite his covert efforts, Bruce is forced to protect the committee openly as Batman. Fortunately, Robin arrives with Alfred in a Batman disguise. When the committee sees Bruce and Batman together, Bruce's secret is safe.
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TITLE:
Manhunt in Outer Space
WRITER:
Arnold Drake
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Batman and Robin pursue thief Eddie Marrow following a robbery. They are stopped by an alien who helps Marrow escape. Unable to pursue the crooks into space, Batman thinks he has failed. However, Garr, the alien crook was being pursued by an alien lawman Inspector Tutian. Tutian takes Batman and Robin with him in pursuit of the crooks.
The lawmen follow Garr's ship to a planetoid populated by giant fruit trees and strange alien creatures. Batman and Tutian pursue their quarry across the planetoid. Batman makes up ground on the crooks using his new Bat-skates. Batman and Tutian defeat the Marrow and Garr, then Batman returns home with his prisoner.
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