Detective Comics #339

(May 1965)

What's Wrong with These Pictures? (Table of Contents: 1)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack Schiff

Pencils

Bernard Baily

Inks

Bernard Baily

Letters

Ira Schnapp

Genre

advocacy

Synopsis

a quiz on general manners and safety information for children

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.
Previously appeared in DC comics cover-dated May 1960.

Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb! (Table of Contents: 2)

Batman and Robin / comic story / 15.34 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (sourced)

Pencils

Carmine Infantino (sourced)

Inks

Joe Giella (sourced)

Colors

?

Letters

Gaspar Saladino (sourced)

Feature Logo

Batman with Robin, the Boy Wonder

Genre

superhero

Characters

Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Walter Hewitt (first appearance); Karmak the Gorilla (first appearance, villain)

Synopsis

Walter Hewitt, a loner scientist, develops a ray that gives him the abilities of animals. Unfortunately something goes wrong and a gorilla gets his intelligence and forces him to commit crimes. Batman battles the gorilla but it uses the ray to get Batman's abilities. The gorilla makes a bomb that will go off if he is defeated but Batman figures out how to stop the bomb from exploding.

Reprints

• in Lynvingen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1966 series) #2/1968 ([februar] 1968)
• in DC Special (DC, 1968 series) #16 (Spring 1975)
• in Batman: The Dynamic Duo Archives (DC, 2003 series) #2 ([August] 2006)
• in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([October] 2006)
• in DC Goes Ape (DC, 2008 series) #1 ([December] 2008)
• in Tales of the Batman: Carmine Infantino (DC, 2014 series) ([July] 2014)

Indexer Notes

Story is divided into two chapters, the first is 5.67 pages, the second is 9.67 pages.

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Silly Putty / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

Super Fun (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Monogram Models / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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80 Page Giant; Superman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Bob Breaks the Barrier! (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

AMT Models / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Green Lantern; Batman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

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Cheerios; Rocky & Bullwinkle / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

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Batman's Hot-Line / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Tom Dietz, Mike Friedrich (future comics writer and publisher), Danny McComas, Mark Dillman, and Annette Richards.

The Counterfeit Crime-Buster! (Table of Contents: 10)

The Elongated Man / comic story / 8.67 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox (sourced)

Pencils

Carmine Infantino (sourced)

Inks

Sid Greene (sourced)

Colors

?

Letters

Gaspar Saladino

Genre

superhero

Characters

Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Batman (guest star)

Reprints

• in Superman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1965 ? series) #4 ([August 1965])
• in Faucon Noir (Arédit-Artima, 1977 series) #3 (juillet 1977) [N&B [B&W]]
• in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #20 (octobre 1987) [N&B [B&W]]
• in Showcase Presents: The Elongated Man (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([September] 2006)

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G.I. Joe / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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80 Page Giant; Superboy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

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Hawk Models / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Showcase; The Atom / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

10 Issues of Detective for Only $1.00 (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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American Body Building Club / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Aurora Products / advertisement / 1 page (report information)