COVER TAGLINE:
None
TITLE:
Inside Story of the Outsider
STORY ARC:
None
COVER DATE:
October, 1966
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Sheldon Moldoff
INKER:
Joe Giella
EDITORS:
Julius Schwartz
COVER:
Carmine Infantino; Joe Giella
PRICE: $.12 U.S.
CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne);
Robin (Dick Grayson); Alfred Pennyworth; Harriet Cooper
PLOT:
Delivery men leave a package for Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson. The package contains coffins with Batman and Robin dummies inside. A warning given by the dummies reveals that the pair has only 24 hours left to live. Batman suspects the Outsider is the perpetrator. He chases down the delivery men and discovers them to be the Outsider's agents, the Grasshopper Gang.
After rounding up the Grasshoppers, Batman checks the tomb of Alfred, whom he suspects may be the Outsider. Alfred appears to still be dead inside his tomb. However, the man in the tomb is really Brandon Crawford, a scientist who was able to revive Alfred using an experimental machine. The device warped Alfred's mind and appearance and made him the Outsider.
Batman is able to follow the O radiation back to the Outsider's lair. However, the 24 hours are up. Robin is transformed into his own coffin. With seconds remaining, Batman deactivates the transformation machine, then knocks out the Outsider. Using Crawford's machine Batman is able to restore Alfred to normal, though he has no memory of his activities as the Outsider. Crawford is also restored and given a job at the Alfred Memorial Foundation, now renamed the Wayne Foundation.
TITLE:
Truth Behind the False Faces
WRITER:
Gardner F. Fox
ARTIST:
Carmine Infantino
INKER:
Carmine Infantino
CHARACTERS:
Elongated Man; Sue Dibny
PLOT:
Patrolman Steve Jackson nearly captured a gang of crooks, but one of the gang he didn't see knocks him out. Sue Dibny convinces the Elongated Man to take her to the wax museum rather than investigate the case. At the museum, Ralph notices that several of the statues have altered faces. He then finds the curator being attacked.
After being rescued by Ralph, the curator identifies one of the altered faces as his attacker. Ralph suspects a connection to the crooks that escaped from Jackson. When he brings Jackson to the museum the faces are melted, and they find Pittsburgh Phil, a counterfeiter.
Phil has been beaten, but gives them a clue. Ralph and Jackson track down the gang by following the clue and arrest them. Phil had created the phony faces on the statues to draw attention to the gang. They framed him during a past crime, so he was getting even. The gang discovered him and melted the faces, but the detective work of the Elongated Man prevailed.
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