COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
Raid of the Rocketeers
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE: February, 1966
WRITER:
Robert Kanigher
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Sid Greene
EDITORS:
Joe Giella
COVER:
Gil Kane; Murphy Anderson
PRICE: $.12 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne), Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson attend the launching of two experimental missiles. When the missiles disappear from radar and don't respond to an abort switch, the experiment is considered a failure. Worried that the missing rockets may pose a threat, a third rocket is fired the following day. Batman and Robin follow the rocket and watch as it is intercepted by a strange beam.
Batman and Robin investigate the source of the beam. They encounter a group of jet-propelled men called the Rocketeers who have stolen the rockets. Batman and Robin are captured and placed into one of the rockets. When Gotham City refuses to give in to an extortion attempt, the rocket is fired at the city with a warhead and Batman aboard.
Batman and Robin break free of the rocket in mid-flight and manage to destroy it. They parachute to safety, battling Rocketeers one the way to the ground. After the crooks have been rounded up, another missile test is conducted resulting in success.
TITLE:
The Loan Shark's Hidden Hoard
WRITER:
John Broome
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Sid Greene
EDITORS:
Julius Schwartz
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon
PLOT:
Grifters Rosy and Weeper borrow money from a loan shark to bet on a horse race. Shortly thereafter the loan shark, "Shark" Sharkey is apprehended by Batman and Robin as the mastermind behind several bombings. When their horse loses, Rosy and Weeper fear that Sharkey will kill them, since they don't know he was arrested. The two men decide to rob a safe belonging to a neighbor. When they enter they find the safe has already been looted. Batman breaks into the room and catches the attempted bandits.
They tell Batman their story, and Batman explains that Sharkey was apprehended. The apartment belongs to Sharkey, and the wall safe contained his money. Batman finds Sharkey's lieutenant Louie hiding with the money and arrests him too. All the crooks are then sent to prison including Rosy and Weeper.
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