COVER TAGLINE:
World's Greatest Super-Heroes
TITLE:
The Masterminds of Crime
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE: January, 1972
WRITER:
David Vern Reed
ARTIST:
Curt Swan
INKER:
Charles Paris
COLORS:
N/A
LETTERS:
N/A
EDITORS:
E. Nelson Bridwell
COVER:
Dick Giordano; Neal Adams
PRICE: $1.00 U.S.
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
N/A
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ORIGINAL PRINTING:
(Story Reprinted from Batman #70)
TITLE:
The Doom Patrol
STORY ARC:
None
WRITER:
Arnold Drake
ARTIST:
Bob Haney
INKER:
Bruno Premiani
COLORS:
N/A
LETTERS:
N/A
EDITORS:
E. Nelson Bridwell
CHARACTERS:
Doom Patrol; Chief; Robotman; Elasti-Girl; Negative Man;
General Immortus
PLOT:
A mysterious, red-bearded, wheelchair-bound scientific genius calling himself the Chief brings together three people branded as "freaks" by normal society.
Rita Farr, movie actress and former Olympic swimmer, gains the power to shrink, stretch, or expand her body to giant size at will after she is swept down a jungle river and breathes strange volcanic vapors. Larry Trainor, test pilot, becomes dangerously radioactive and able to separate a weird being of radio-energy from his body when he flies an experimental sub-orbital craft through a radiation belt. Cliff Steele, world-famous daredevil, awakens to find his human brain transplanted into a robot body after his real body is totally destroyed in a racing-car crash.
As Elasti-Girl, Negative Man, and Robotman, the trio become a team of heroes, the Doom Patrol, under the Chief’s leadership. In one of their first joint efforts, they battle General Immortus, a seemingly immortal mastermind and an old foe of the Chief’s, for possession of a super-weapon contained in a crash-landed alien drone spaceship. The team succeeds in its mission, but General Immortus is apparently killed in the explosion of the alien craft.
ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted from My Greatest Adventure #80
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TITLE:
None
WRITER:
John Broome
ARTIST:
Joe Kubert
EDITORS:
E. Nelson Bridwell
CHARACTERS:
Sargon; Maximillian O'Leary
PLOT:
Sargon visits the circus and is enlisted by his friend the owner to help guard a lion. A man has tried to steal the lion, and the owner believes the thief will return. When the lion break loose and attacks Sargon's friend Max, the supposed thief calms the beast. Sargon realizes that the man is from Africa and has trained the lion. The owner offers the man a job as an animal trainer, allowing Sargon and Max to enjoy the rest of the circus.
ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted From Sensation Comics #57
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TITLE:
Danger in the Totem's Eye
WRITER:
Arthur Adler
ARTIST:
N/A
EDITORS:
E. Nelson Bridwell
CHARACTERS:
Atom
PLOT:
N/A
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TITLE:
The Aqua-Thief of the Seven Seas
WRITER:
Robert Bernstein
ARTIST:
Ramona Fradon
EDITORS:
E. Nelson Bridwell
CHARACTERS:
Aquaman; Aqualad
PLOT:
King Tai, ruler of Timtu celebrates his son’s birthday at sea. As a gift to the young prince, the king places 26 pounds of diamonds in the boy’s chest. Moments later the chest has been thrown in the water while no one is looking.
Aquaman is called upon to retrieve the chest. He finds it on the ocean floor empty. When he brings up the empty chest, he is accused of stealing the diamonds. He dives again to see if they spilled out. While underwater, Aquaman carves new diamonds from an iceberg. The fake diamonds are recovered which causes the real thieves to worry.
The real thieves realize it is a trick, but they double-cross one another and the diamonds are recovered in a life preserver.
ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted From Adventure Comics #276
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TITLE:
The Legion of Super-Outlaws
WRITER:
Edmond Hamilton
ARTIST:
John Forte
EDITORS:
E. Nelson Bridwell
CHARACTERS:
Saturn Girl; Superboy; Chameleon Boy; Colossal Boy; Star Boy;
PLOT:
A brilliant but evil scientist, Dr. Marden King, seeks to destroy the Legion of Super-Heroes in retaliation for the death of his brother, Jungle King. Knowing of five young super-powered mutants, who are wandering the cosmos after being banished from the planet Lallor, he summons them to Earth to assist him in his goal.
The youths are Duplicate Boy, who can duplicate any super-power, Gas Girl, who can change into any gas, Evolvo Lad, who can make his body go forward or backward in evolution, Life Lass, who can make any inanimate object come alive, and Beast Boy, who can transform himself into any animal.
Marden convinces them that the Legionnaires are tyrants who will force them off Earth, knowing that the homeless Lallorians will fight to stay. The four Legionnaires then on Earth, Superboy, Star Boy, Invisible Kid, and Shrinking Violet battle the strange youths, and are captured by them and imprisoned in their own clubhouse.
Shrinking Violet escapes to warn her other teammates, and while Duplicate Boy tracks her down, his comrades discover that Marden King had lied to them, and that the Legionnaires are not villainous. When Duplicate Boy and the Legionnaires return to Earth, matters are set straight between the two groups, and King is taken into custody.
The Lallorian heroes are returned to their home world, and Duplicate Boy and Shrinking Violet, who have fallen in love, vow to continue their romance.
ORIGINAL PRINTING:
Story Reprinted From Adventure Comics #324
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TITLE:
Mr. Roulette's Greatest Gamble
WRITER:
David Vern Reed
ARTIST:
Dick Sprang
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
E. Nelson Bridwell
CHARACTERS:
Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
N/A
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ORIGINAL PRINTING:
(Story Reprinted From Batman #75)
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