Detective Comics #378

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DC ⋅ 1968

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Issue Details

Publisher

DC

Writer

Gardner Fox

Writer

Frank Robbins

Artist

Sid Greene

Inker

Joe Giella

Cover Artist

Irv Novick

Artist

Bob Brown

Published

June 1968

Synopsis

BATMAN! DROP DEAD… TWICE! Batman and Robin have a falling out which causes the Boy Wonder to leave the team. At the same time Salvo, a professional crook, and his apprentice Chino have a similar fight. Chino rents a room and takes in Dick Grayson as his roommate. Dick soon discovers that Chino is a crook, but he hopes that he can set the boy straight. Instead Chino intends to use Dick as bait to kill Batman. Chino dresses Dick in a Robin costume, then sends Batman a note that will lead him into a trap. Meanwhile, Salvo has also learned about the Batman-Robin split. He dresses his assistant Chopper as Robin and uses the same plan as Chino to set a trap for Batman. The Caped Crusader then receives two notes that claim Robin is a prisoner and he is forced to perform two rescues simultaneously. Batman shows up at the site where Salvo has prepared a trap and a hired assassin, named The Icer, fires a rifle, apparently striking Batman. Strangely, at the same time, Batman shows up where the real Robin is being held as bait and as Robin yells a warning, Chino shoots at Batman. MENACE OF THE MAN-KILLING SHOOTING GALLERY! A paranoid man named Hanford Jenkins keeps shooting at different objects in his hotel room. He is convinced that the mob has planted a trigger mechanism in his vicinity to set off a bomb and kill him. He claims to be a reporter on the verge of breaking an expose on the mob. In reality, Jenkins is covering up a real robbery taking place on the upper floors. His gunshots are covering a safe robbery but his plans are foiled when EM sees through his scheme.

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