COVER TAGLINE:
A Prize Collection
TITLE:
Batman, Junior
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE: October, 1966
WRITER:
Edmond Hamilton
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
COVER:
Jim Mooney; Jim Mooney; Curt Swan; Stan Kaye
PRICE: $.25 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne), Robin (Dick Grayson); Batman, Jr. (John Vance)
PLOT:
Birrell Binter escapes from prison. Batman leaves Robin behind to pursue the crook. Robin discovers evidence that Batman had another partner earlier in his career, Batman, Jr. alias John Vance. Robin leaves the Bat-Cave, and finds Batman and Vance working together.
Robin is sent back to the Bat-Cave, but he continues to pursue Binter. He gets captured, but Batman helps rescue him. Batman, Vance, and Robin then recapture Binter. Batman explains to Robin that Vance helped him on capture Binter years ago. Vance wore the Batman, Jr. costume to protect his identity.
ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted From Detective Comics #231
TITLE:
Robin Falls in Love
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Batman and Robin attend an ice show, where Robin saves figure skater Vera Lovely from a perilous accident. Robin and Vera are smitten with each other, but Vera's press agent steps in to break them up. Robin daydreams about Vera which begins to affect his crimefighting. The press agent tricks both Robin and Vera into a misunderstanding, but Robin still retains his crush on her. When he returns to the ice show with Batman, they stop a jewel thief from recovering loot hidden in an old pair of Vera's ice skates. Robin and Vera patch up their misunderstanding, but Robin decides to redevote himself to fighting crime.
ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted from Batman #107
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TITLE:
Robin's New Boss
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Mr. Marvel
PLOT:
A new masked hero has arrived in Gotham calling himself Mr. Marvel. Using spectacular gadgets, Marvel becomes a crime-fighting rival to Batman. Robin decides that he can learn a lot from Mr. Marvel and leaves Batman to form a new partnership with the newcomer.
Batman is disheartened that his partner has disolved their team. However, Robin was actually blackmailed into joining Mr. Marvel. Robin pretends to enjoy their partnership, but then turns on him. He removes Marvel’s belt which was designed to kill Batman.
The Caped Crusader arrives and unmasks Mr. Marvel. Beneath the mask is an alien. He came to Earth to win a bet over whether or not he could break up the Dynamic Duo for ten days. He is sent back to his world a failure.
ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted From Batman #137
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TITLE:
Robin, the Super Boy Wonder
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Jim Mooney
INKER:
Jim Mooney
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Batman and Robin trail criminal Biff Warner to the Yucatan jungle. They both fall victim to a lightning storm and crash in the jungle. Batman locates Robin, but finds that the lightning has mysteriously given him super-strength and stolen his memory.
Robin is under the control of Ko-Ti, a native in the area. Ko-Ti convinces the tribe that Robin is a god, and Batman is a thief. He also uses Robin to mine for treasure. Batman restores Robin’s memory with a blow to the head and exposes Ko-Ti as Biff Warner. Robin’s powers slowly fade away, and the Dynamic Duo return home with Biff as prisoner.
ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted From Batman #150
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TITLE:
The Boy Wonder Confesses
WRITER:
David Vern Reed
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Stan Kaye
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon; Alfred
PLOT:
Dick Grayson confesses to his classmates that he is Robin. Then he performs acrobatic stunts to prove it. Reporters confront Bruce Wayne, but he denies his identity as Batman. Bruce offers to give the reporters proof that he is not Batman.
Bruce and Dick are executing a plan to protect their identities because a crook called Mr. Camera got photographic evidence of their dual identities months earlier. The crook is in jail, but one of his henchmen is scheduled to be released soon and will retrieve the film.
To fool the reporters Batman creates a Batman figure made of snow on a rooftop. He then appears as Bruce and using ventriloquism to make the snowman talk. Batman then appears to leave the roof via the Batplane, which is actually controlled by Robin. Bruce melts the snowman, so that when reporters reach the roof everything is gone. The reporters are fooled, so when the film turns up it won't be believed.
A short time later, Batman and Robin recover the film only to learn it was underexposed, so it would not have given away their identities
ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted From Batman #81
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TITLE:
The Secret of the Ant-Man
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Ace the Bat-Hound
PLOT:
While Batman is away on a secret mission, Robin breaks up a robbery by the Brady Brothers. He is assisted by a tiny costumed man called Ant-Man. Robin suspects Ant-Man is really Batman exposed to chemicals at the lab of Professor Hanson, but when Ant-Man turns on Robin and steals some jewels, Robin realizes his mistake. He plans and executes a trap to ensnare the miniature mobster, who is revealed as rival gangster Jumbo Carson.
ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted From Batman #156
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