COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
Hunters of the Elephants' Graveyard
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
November, 1964
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Carmine Infantino
INKER:
Joe Giella
EDITORS:
Julius Schwartz
COVER:
Carmine Infantino; Joe Giella
PRICE: $.12 U.S.
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne);
Robin (Dick Grayson)
PLOT:
Batman and Robin are approached by a woman claiming to be Gorla, Goddess of the Elephants. Gorla asks the Dynamic Duo to visit Africa and investigate the disappearance of explorer Evan Bender. Batman deduces that Gorla is really Alice Foss, Bender's girlfriend, but he agrees to go to Africa anyway.
Batman and Robin arrive in Africa and begin their search. They are attacked by a stampede of elephants, but they avoid injury. Batman then spots Bender inside a cave. Bender tries to attack Batman along with members of a native tribe.
The explorer has control of a strange stone that gives him power over the elephants. Batman removes the stone from Bender's possession. Bender then stops fighting and explains that he has been under the hypntoic influence of big-game hunter Red Loftus. Bender helps Batman and Robin capture Loftus, who has been using the explorer and the elephants to loot diamonds and ivory.
TITLE:
The Robbery That Never Happened
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Carmine Infantino
INKER:
Sid Greene
CHARACTERS:
Elongated Man; Sue Dibny
PLOT:
When Sue Dibny visits a jewel to pick up a repaired watch, the store owner tells her about a hundred dollar bill, that he thought was a ten dollar bill, when a customer corrected him when making change. Sue relates the story to her husband, who decides to investigate as the Elongated Man.
Ralph visits the jewelry store and sees the jeweler robbing his own safe. He follows the man and watches as the jewels are placed in an alley garbage can. Ralph stays with the jewels and sees another man pick them up. He eavesdrops and learns that the crook hypnotized the jeweler into robbing himself. Ralph apprehends the thief and explains the situation to the jeweler, who was hypnotized to forget his own robbery.
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