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Comics - Ongoing - Detective Comics - Issue #259

DETECTIVE COMICS #259
COVER TAGLINE: Batman and Robin Face the Challenge of a Bizarre Foe... "The Calendar Man!"

COVER DATE: September, 1958
PRICE: $.10 U.S.

EDITOR(s): Jack Schiff
COVER: Curt Swan; Stan Kaye

TITLE: The Challenge of the Calendar Man

WRITER: Bill Finger
PENCILER(s): Sheldon Moldoff
INKER(s): Charles Paris
COLORS: Dave Stewart
LETTERS: Todd Klein

CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Calendar Man (Julian Day)

PLOT:
Calendar Man challenges the Caped Crusaders by committing crimes dealing with the four seasons. He also tells them he will committ a crime relating to the fifth season. Batman is able to stop him from getting the loot at some of the crime scenes, but the crook and his men elude capture. Batman deduces the fifth season to be the Indian "Monsoon Season". This leads Batman to an Indian magician who is really the Calendar Man.

TITLE: The Tiny Catastrophes

WRITER: Jack Miller
ARTIST: Ruben Moreira
INKER: Ruben Moreira

CHARACTERS: Roy Raymond

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Getaway King

WRITER: Jack Miller
ARTIST: Joe Certa
INKER: Joe Certa

CHARACTERS: Martian Manhunter (J’onn J’onzz); Captain Harding; Monty Moran

PLOT:
Criminal genius Monty Moran has created several special vehicles that allow his men to make daring escapes from robberies. J'onn J'onzz is on the scene to invisibly stop the robbers and apprehend them despite their vehicles. J'onn then tracks down Monty at the gang's hide-out. He summons the police and secretly aids them in the arrest of Moran and his men.

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