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Detective Comics #339

DC · Series began 1937 · May 1965

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Dates

Cover date: May 1965
On sale: March 25, 1965
Pages: 36

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Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Carmine Infantino, Bernard Bailyinks: Joe Giella, Bernard Baily, Sid Greeneletters: Ira Schnapp, Gaspar Saladinoscript: Jack Schiff, Gardner Fox

Stories

Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb! · 15.34 pages
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.
The Counterfeit Crime-Buster! · 8.67 pages

Publisher’s description

Batman and Robin thwart robberies and go up against Karmak the Gorilla, a creature made evil and superintelligent by a device created by a scientist named Wally Hewitt.

Reprinted in

Superman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly (1965), DC Special (1968), Batman: The Dynamic Duo Archives (2003), Showcase Presents the Elongated Man (2006), Showcase Presents: Batman (2006), DC Goes Ape (2008), Tales of the Batman: Carmine Infantino (2014)