COVER TAGLINE:
Do You Dare See For Yourself What's Inside The Mysterious Room
A Battered BATMAN Is Staggering Out Of? The Astounding Answer
Is Revealed In...
TITLE:
The Decline and Fall of Batman
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE: November, 1965
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Joe Giella
EDITORS:
Julius Schwartz
COVER:
Carmine Infantino; Joe Giella
PRICE: $.12 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne), Robin (Dick Grayson); Harriet Cooper
PLOT:
Ex-con Eddie Repp creates a device which can create ghost images. Eddie designs a special keyboard with which he can control the ghosts and enable them to interact with solid objects. Vowing revenge upon Batman and Robin, Eddie creates ghosts of the Dynamic Duo. The ghosts then take the place of the real heroes apprehending the criminals of Gotham.
The real Batman and Robin are unable to discover the secret of their duplicates. The ghosts prove far more effective crime-fighters, disheartening the heroes. After psychologically humiliating the Dynamic Duo, Repp sends his ghosts to beat them physically. Batman is soundly defeated.
Repp then creates a gang of ghost crooks. Batman and Robin realize the crooks must be connected to their ghost counterparts. Though they are unable to stop the crooks, Batman places radioactive tracer dust on the loot. The heroes are then able to track down Repp. Repp is paralyzed by the radioactive dust, allowing Batman to apprehend him and finish the ghosts off once and for all.
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