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Comics - Ongoing - Detective Comics - Issue #116

DETECTIVE COMICS #116
TITLE: The Rescue of Robin Hood

COVER DATE: October, 1946

WRITER: Don Cameron
ARTIST: J. Winslow Mortimer
INKER: J. Winslow Mortimer
EDITORS: Jack Schiff
COVER: Bob Kane; Ray Burnley

PRICE: $.10 U.S.

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

PLOT:
Batman and Robin are sent to the past by Professor Carter Nichols using hypnotism. They arrive in Sherwood Forest and help Robin Hood battle the tyrany of the Sheriff of Nottingham and King John. Batman and Robin Hood are taken prisoner during an archery contest. Batman uses his utility belt items to help them escape the dungeon. They then open the gates, allowing Robin Hood's men to storm the castle and defeat the sheriff.


TITLE: Tonic for Trouble

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: Howard Sherman
INKER: John Daly
CHARACTERS: Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan

PLOT:
Shorty and Slam attend a demonstration of a new health tonic. The salesmen claim it gives a man increased strength, but Slam believes it to be a scam. Shorty receives a free bottle and drinks it. The potion immediately puts him to sleep.

Slam realizes that the salesmen are giving the tonic away, then robbing the men who drink it while they sleep off its effects. Slam and Shorty confront the crooks. They fail in their first attempt, but succeed in apprehending them on their second try.

TITLE: Short-Circuit Air Wave

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: Harris Levy
INKER: Harris Levy
CHARACTERS: Air Wave; Static

PLOT:
Air Wave is contacted by Jane Fowler, a young girl experimenting with radio waves. Jane is competing for the Edman Scholarship which would allow her to learn more about radio. Crooks working for Biggy Bogart have also entered a man in the competition. They hope to learn enough to stop Air Wave. The crooks force Jane's father to help them, but Air Wave uncovers the plot and rescues Mr. Fowler. Jane then wins the scholarship.

TITLE: Ten Days in the Big House

WRITER: George Kashdan
ARTIST: Curt Swan
INKER: Steve Brodie
CHARACTERS: Boy Commandos; Andre Chavard; Brooklyn; Alfy Twidgett

PLOT:
Rip Carter goes undercover as Killer Conway at Trail's End Prison. Rip tries to uncover a scheme by the other prisoners to escape. However, Rip's cover is exposed when the Boy Commandos visit the jail. The governor also suffers a heart attack, and no one else knows that Killer Conway is Carter.

Rip is nearly executed, but the Boy Commandos help stop the death sentence. Working together, Rip and the boys stop the escape plan. The governor eventually recovers, and Rip's undercover operation ends.

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