COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
The Bronze Menace
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
April, 1962
WRITER:
Bill Finger
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Charles Paris
EDITORS:
Jack Schiff
COVER:
Jim Mooney
PRICE: $.12 U.S.
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne);
Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon; Batwoman
PLOT:
Several big-time crooks have disappeared while at the same time bronze statue are being stolen from art collections. Batman, Robin, and Batwoman investigate, and the Caped Crusader learns that the bronze statues are really the missing crooks. The bronze sculptor, Vulcan, has used a stolen invention to put the crooks in suspended animation in bronze, then he revives them, and they commit robberies.
Batman and Robin are also turned into bronze by Vulcan, but Batwoman arrives in time to rescue her fellow crime-fighters. She then turns the bronze-device on Vulcan and the crooks, leaving them for the police.
TITLE:
The Crime King of Olympus
WRITER:
Jack Miller
ARTIST:
Joe Certa
INKER:
Joe Certa
CHARACTERS:
Martian Manhunter; Captain Harding; Diane Meade
PLOT:
A criminal gang used high-tech machinery assault the city disguised as Greek Gods. The leader, Zeus, kidnaps Diane Meade and makes her into the Goddess Diana. The Martian Manhunter follows Zeus back to his hide-out only to find it surrounded by torches. J’onn plays along as Hercules to get close to Zeus, then surprises the crook by snuffing out the torches. Finally J’onn rescues Diane and finishes off the gang.
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