COVER TAGLINE:
None
COVER DATE: December, 1963
TITLE:
Formula for Doom
STORY ARC:
None
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
COVER:
Sheldon Moldoff
PRICE: $.12 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne), Robin (Dick Grayson); Ace the Bat-Hound
PLOT:
The Dynamic Duo and Bat-Hound track down a renegade scientist in the process of handing over a portion of a explosive formula to a European criminal. Batman tracks the crook, Kuzak, to Europe where he witnesses the man’s murder. He is then able to trace the murderer to Switzerland where the killer and another scientist are creating a new powerful explosive using the formula. Batman stops the crooks, and the scientist dies before he can record the formula.
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TITLE:
The False Face Society
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon; Joker
PLOT:
Batman goes undercover as a member of the False Face Society to learn the identity and capture the gang leader. The Society members all where masks and costumes to protect their identities and compete in the leader’s crime contest. Batman replaces the crook in a Batman costume, but his cover is blown at a gang meeting. The leader has double-crossed the gang though and turn on him. Robin and the police arrive in time to corral all the criminals. The gang leader is really the Joker.
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TITLE:
Memorial to an Astronaut
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Batman helps a dying mineralogist, Luke Haley, realize his dream of traveling into space. Batman sets up a hoax mission to Mars for Luke using a phony spaceship and a movie set. Crooks hiding on the set try to steal valuable minerals, but Batman and Robin stop them. When the crooks try to kill Batman, Luke saves him, believing he will die from the exposure to the martian atmosphere. Luke does die from natural causes, never realizing it was a hoax.
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