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Detective Comics #279

DC · Series began 1937 · May 1960

Dates

Cover date
May 1960
On sale
March 29, 1960
Pages
36

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Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Sheldon Moldoff, Henry Boltinoff, Bernard Baily, Joe Certa, Ruben Moreirainks: Sheldon Moldoff, Charles Paris, Henry Boltinoff, Bernard Baily, Joe Certa, Ruben Moreiraletters: Ira Schnapp, Henry Boltinoffscript: Henry Boltinoff, Jack Schiff

Stories

  • The Creatures That Stalked Batman · 12 pages
  • The Impossible Inventions · 6.67 pages

    Jones tries to capture Willy Ward but Hiram's inventions keep getting in his way.

  • Passage to Prison · 1 pages
  • The Creature from the Sorcerer's Stone! · 6 pages

Publisher’s description

Batman and Robin face the Atomic-Man, a criminal scientist with the power to transmute matter, who is on a revenge crusade against the four men who sent him to jail.

Reprinted in

The Hundred Plus Comic (1959), Superman Supacomic (1959), Showcase Presents: Martian Manhunter (2007)

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