(Summer 1963)

DC, National Periodical Publications imprint, 1961 Series
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Price:
0.25 USD
Pages:
84
Editing:
Jack Schiff
Format: 
Color; Standard Silver Age US; square-bound; triple-size; Newsprint; bi-annual series

Table of Contents

  1. 1. The Power that Doomed Batman
    Batman & Robin
  2. 2. The Merman Batman
    Batman & Robin
  3. 3. Rip Van Batman
    Batman & Robin
  4. 4. The Zebra Batman
    Batman & Robin
  5. 5. The Grown-Up Boy Wonder
    Batman & Robin
  6. 6. The Bewitched Batman
    Superman; Batman & Robin
  7. 7. The Phantom Batman
    Batman & Robin
  8. 8. The Giant Batman
    Batman & Robin
This issue was most recently indexed by:
  • Jim Walker
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
  • Jon Ingersoll
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Issue Notes

On Sale Date - May 23rd 1963
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The Strange Lives Of Batman and Robin (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]

Indexer Notes

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The Power that Doomed Batman (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Bill Finger
Pencils:
Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks:
Charles Paris
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Synopsis:
Batman takes up a plane on an experimental flight, and, after crossing the path of a strange comet, lands, revealing Batman with a strange glow....and super powers to boot. The Dynamic Duo race against the clock to find a cure before the glow dies away....along with Batman's life!
Reprinted:
  • from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #268 (June 1959)

The Merman Batman (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Bill Finger
Pencils:
Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks:
Charles Paris
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Smarte (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis:
While chasing down a wanted criminal, Batman is struck by lightning and falls into the harbor. When he rises out of the water, he discovers that he cannot breathe air and has literally become a human fish.
Reprinted:
  • from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #118 (September 1958)

Rip Van Batman (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Bill Finger
Pencils:
Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks:
Charles Paris
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Synopsis:
Looking for criminal Al Hackett, Batman enters a greenhouse w/exotic flowers and accidently trips over a vine, smashing into a case with a flower that gives off a strange vapor, and he passes out. When he awakes, he finds himself in the future --- but circumstances reveal that Dick Grayson is now Batman and has taken on a new partner.
Reprinted:
  • from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #119 (November 1958)

The Zebra Batman (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Bill Finger
Pencils:
Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks:
Charles Paris
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; the Zebra-Man (first appearance; villain)
Synopsis:
An insideous criminal discovers a way to charge his body like a magnet to commit crimes, but Batman, in trying to stop him, accidently becomes charged as well, making the villain's capture difficult.
Reprinted:
  • from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #275 (January 1960)

The Grown-Up Boy Wonder (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Bill Finger
Pencils:
Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks:
Stan Kaye
Colors:
?
Letters:
Pat Gordon

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Daredevils (frist appearance; villains)
Synopsis:
While examining a lead-lined box Superman had brought back from outer space, Dick accidently touches a release, emitting a gas that causes him to grow bodily into manhood, thus forcing him to give up his Robin personna and adopting a different crime fighting ID.
Reprinted:
  • from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #107 (May 1957)

The Bewitched Batman (Table of Contents)

Superman; Batman & Robin / story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jerry Coleman
Pencils:
Curt Swan
Inks:
Sheldon Moldoff ?; Stan Kaye ?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Synopsis:
While in England attending a convention, Batman stumbles into an ancient cave's "booby trap" set up years before by a sorcerer named Fangan. Robin appeals to Superman for help, as Batman believes that if he doesn't carry out Fangan's commands, he will perish.
Reprinted:
  • from World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #109 (May 1960)

The Phantom Batman (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Edmond Hamilton
Pencils:
Dick Sprang
Inks:
Charles Paris
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon
Synopsis:
Batman inexplicably is affected by an explosion in an experimental electronics laboratory that reverses the atoms in his body.
Reprinted:
  • from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #110 (September 1957)

The Giant Batman (Table of Contents)

Batman & Robin / story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Edmond Hamilton
Pencils:
Dick Sprang
Inks:
Charles Paris
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
Superhero
Characters:
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Jay Vanney (villain)
Synopsis:
Batman & Robin are invited to his lab to witness inventions he has just created to aid law enforcement: the Maximizer and the Minimizer. Unfortunately, the Maximizer plays on the Capred Crusader, who begins to grow uncontrollably, and finds he must leave Gotham City for the people's protection, allowing crime to seemingly run rampant.
Reprinted:
  • from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #243 (May 1957) [as "Batman the Giant!"]

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