COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
The Psychic Super-Sleuth
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE: November, 1967
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Joe Giella
EDITORS:
Julius Schwartz
COVER:
Carmine Infantino; Murphy Anderson
PRICE: $.12 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne), Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon
PLOT:
Batman and Robin team up with Petru Dubrov, a famous psychic detective, to solve a jewel theft with no clues. Dubrov successfully locates the crooks, but they claim to be innocent. After Dubrov helps solve another crime with similar results Batman becomes suspicious.
Batman finds a letter in which Dubrov told Commissioner Gordon that he was coming to Gotham. Analysis of the letter leads Batman to a farm house where the real Dubrov is being held captive. The other Dubrov was an imposter.
Batman and Dubrov then track down the imposter and his gang. The imposter hoped to prove himself to police by planting stolen loot on innocent ex-cons. Then his gang could commit a big crime and escape easily. With the real Dubrov rescued, the plot fails and the real crooks are apprehended.
TITLE:
The Purloined Parchment Puzzle
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Joe Giella
EDITORS:
Julius Schwartz
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); District Attorney Danton
PLOT:
After stopping a bank robbery, Batman helps with a locked room mystery at a museum. The curator inside the room was knocked out and a rare document stolen. The two guards outside saw no one enter the room. The curator, Donald Connery is accused of the crime and goes to trial.
Both guards testify that no one entered the room until Connery was found. Batman then testifies and explains that he found the missing document rolled into a window shade. He claims to have fingerprint evidence against the real thief which causes guard James Frost to reveal himself. Frost was the real thief, having fashioned a duplicate key to the room and stolen the document while his partner had stepped away.
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