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Comics - Ongoing - Batman - Issue #223

BATMAN #223
COVER TAGLINE: Batman and Robin Face Danger Around the World!
TITLE: City Without Guns
STORY ARC: None
COVER DATE: July/August, 1970

WRITER: Bill Finger
ARTIST: Dick Sprang
INKER: Charles Paris
EDITORS: E. Nelson Bridwell
COVER: Curt Swan; Murphy Anderson

PRICE: $.15 U.S.

CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)

PLOT:
The London police never use guns ... but a fugitive American hood operating in England does! So Batman and Robin join forces with Scotland Yard to track down the trigger-happy thug!

ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted From Detective Comics #196

TITLE: Batman of the Mounties

WRITER: David Vern Reed
ARTIST: Lew Sayre Schwartz
INKER: Stan Kaye
EDITORS: E. Nelson Bridwell
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)

PLOT:
A wounded Mountie deputizes Batman, and the Caped Crime-Fighter sets out through the Canadian snows to capture two killers ... and keep intact the tradition that a Mountie always gets his man!

ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted From Batman #78

TITLE: The Mardis Gras Mystery

WRITER: Bill Finger
ARTIST: Jack Burnley
INKER: Charles Paris
EDITORS: E. Nelson Bridwell
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)

PLOT:
In colorful New Orleans for the Mardi Gras, Batman and Robin run into a baffling puzzle - and a gang of costumed crooks tries to take it away from them!

TITLE: Journey to the Top of the World

WRITER: Bill Finger
ARTIST: Dick Sprang
INKER: Charles Paris
EDITORS: E. Nelson Bridwell
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)

PLOT:
Batman and Robin join a mountain climbing expedition in search of a lost container of stolen microfiche. The party begins the ascent of K-4, and soon runs into trouble as one of the ropes is cut causing Sidney Smythe to fall to his apparent death.

Batman suspects the other climbers are responsible. He investigates and is attacked by an masked climber. Batman eventually reaches the top of the mountain and retrieves the container. The killer turns out to be Smythe who staged the fall. He struggles with Batman, then falls to his death. When Batman returns from the mountain he learns that the real Smythe was never on the expedition. The dead man was an imposter.

ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted From Batman #93

TITLE: Around the World in 8 Days

WRITER: Bill Finger
ARTIST: Dick Sprang
INKER: Charles Paris
EDITORS: E. Nelson Bridwell
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)

PLOT:
The Gotham City Hospital is robbed of platinum, radium, and a rare serum. The serum is needed to save the life of a patient who will die in eight days without it. Batman and Robin track down the thieves, but find the loot was divided up and smuggled out of the country. The Dynamic Duo then races around the globe searching for the stolen serum before the patient dies. They finally locate it in Mexico with the final group of smugglers and return in time for the serum to successful restore the patient to health.

ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted From Detective Comics #248

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