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- — Batman
Detective Comics #339 is an issue of the series Detective Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1965.
Synopsis for "Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb!"
A series of strange robberies are committed by a man who can tear open a bank vault with his bare hands and jump sixty feet. This person turns out to be Wally Hewitt, who eventually turns himself over to the police demanding to be locked up. When in a jail cell he explains to them that he was considered worthless by his peers due to his lack of athletic prowess, so he began studying bionics and built a device that could transfer the abilities of one animal and give them to another. When he tried to use it on a gorilla, the beast became super intelligent and evil, and mentally forced Wally to commit the crimes.
Finishing his story, he is suddenly compelled to break out, and soon finds himself in a battle against Batman and Robin, forced to do so by command of Karmak the Gorilla. However, Karmak then tricks Batman into battling him directly, and uses Wally's device to gain all Batman's abilities. Sometime later, Karmak returns with a bomb strapped to his chest threatening to blow up all of Gotham City.
Batman and Robin deduce that if he holds the Gorilla off the ground, the bomb will not explode when the timer reaches zero, and so Batman and Robin overpower the beast and manage to hold it off the ground until the bomb runs out of time and deactivates. Afterwards, Batman tells Wally that if he's interested he can speak to his good friend Bruce Wayne to get him a job at the Alfred Foundation.
Appearing in "Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Commissioner Gordon (Mentioned only)
Antagonists:
- Karmak (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Walter Hewitt (Single appearance)
- Gotham City Police Department
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Synopsis for "The Counterfeit Crime-Buster!"
Appearing in "The Counterfeit Crime-Buster!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Husky Harry Bellows (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Sergeant Douglas (Single appearance)
- Hugh Rankin
- Batman (Cameo)
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Items:
- counterfeit 20 dollar bill
Vehicles:
- None
Notes
- "Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb!" is reprinted in DC Special #16, Batman: The Dynamic Duo Archives Vol 2, DC Goes Ape, Showcase Presents: Batman Vol 1, and Tales of the Batman: Carmine Infantino.
- "The Counterfeit Crime-Buster!" is reprinted in Showcase Presents: Elongated Man Vol. 1.
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