The year was 1967, and Batman was everywh From T-shirts to TY shows to newspaper strip: urban rime staries that had rescued the original comic book feature from oblivion only a few years earlier, a That same year, however, a new arti s being given prominent book and cover assignments throughout DC Comics’ line of titles. His work was different dynamic and stylized, it gave new life to familiar heroes and villains. It was only 4 matter of time before this artist would come to Batman, and just as he had brought new vitality te Superman and The Spectre, suddenly Neal Adams became a breath of fresh air lor Gotham Gity’s defender as well Ata time when editors rarely used write from outside their regular “stables” of creators, Neal Adams found himself wanted by every editor in the company, When Murray Boltinoff replaced George Kashdan as editor of THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD, one of several titles starring the Dark Knight Detective, he installed Adams as the penciller for the title’s interior storie: well as its covers. Together with his many or artists other cover assignments, thig rush of demand obligate Adams — who preferred to ink his own work — to collaborate mere and more with other artists as he was asked to pencil an ever-increasing number @1 pages per manth. His most frequent inker was Dick Giordano, whe seemed to wark magic with Adams's pencils. The results of their collaboration o: enthusiastic praise from fans as well a sales, and a ‘ond legen Adams's talent energized every title he applied it to, from GREEN LANTERN to DEADMAN, but it was his transiorming work on Batman that cemented his reputation as one of the medium masters. Now. In this first volume of BATMAN ILLUSTRATED BY NEAL ADAMS, ers can see hew a new era in took shape — and how it grew and evolved along wi artist who shaped it h theIntroduction by Neal Adams 414 DETECTIVE COMICS #370 Cover December 1967 Pencits: Carmine Infantino Inks: Neal Adams 42 THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #75 Cover ecember-danuary 1968 inks: Noal Adams Pencils a 43} DETECTIVE COMICS #372 Cover February 1968 Penciis and inks: Neat Adams. 414 THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #76 Cover February-March 1968 Poncils and inks: Neal Adams 415 BATMAN #200 Cover Mareh 1968 Pencils and inks: Neal Adams 1G WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #174 Cover Maren 1968 Pencils and inks: Neal Ad 47 WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #175 April 1968 The Superman-Batman Ret Story: Leo Dorfman Pencils; Neal Adams Inks: Dick Giortlano- ja Squad” 3S WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #176 June 1968 “The Superman-Baiman Split” Story: Cary Bates Pencits: Neal Adams Inks: Dick Giordano S54 BATMAN #203 Cover sluly-August 1968 Layout: Carmine Infantino Inks: Neal Adams SS THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #79 ‘August-Seplember 1966 “The Track of The Hook" Story: Bob Haney Pencils; Neal Adams Inks: Dick Giordano BO WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #178 Cover September 1968 Po ls_and inks: Neal Adams 31 WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #179 Cover October 1968 Pencils and inks: Neal Adams: 22 WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #180 Cover November 1960 Pencits and inks: Neal Adams, 3 THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #80 October-Novernber 1968 ‘And Heligrammite ts His Name’ Story: Bob Haney Pencils: Neal Adams Inks: Dick GigettanoOF THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #81 Decamber-January 1969 “But Bork Gan Hurt You" Slory: Bob Haney Pencils: Neal Adams Inks: Dick Giordana and Vince Colletta 1332 WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #182 Cover February 1969 Poneils: Curt Swan Inks; Neal Adams 133 WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #183 Cover March 1969 Layout: Carmine lafantino Inks: Neal Adanis 9334 THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #82 February-March 1869 “The Sleepwalker from tho Sea" Story: Bob Haney Pencils: Neal Adams Inks: Dick Giordano 158 BATMAN #210 Cover March 1969 Pencils and inks: Neal Adams 1599 DETECTIVE COMICS #385 Cover March 1969 Pencils and inks; Neal Adams 1G0 THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #83 April-May 1969 “Punish Nol My Evil Son” Story: Bob Haney Pencils: Neal Adams Inks: Dick Giordano 1835 WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #185 Cover June 1969 Pencits and inks: Neal Adams 1G THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #84 June-July 1969 “The Angel, The Rack, and the Cowl* Story: Bob Haney Pencils and inks: Neal Adams (page 19 inked ty Joe Kubert) 211 DETECTIVE COMICS #389 Cover July 1969. Pencils and inks: Neal Adams 212 WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #186 Cover August 1969 Layout: Carmine Infantino Inks; Neal Adams 213 THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #85 August-Septomber 1969 “The Senator's Been Shot” Story: Bob Haney Pencits: Neal Adams Inks: Dick Giordano 237 DETECTIVE COMICS #391 Cover September 1969 Peneils and inks: Neal Adams 235 DETECTIVE COMICS #392 ‘October 1969 Pencils and inks: Neal Adams 239 BiographiesAN INTRODUCTION me to explain, though Lean't really, how it is that you are helding in your hand a fifty-dollar reprint book of my Batman work. I: it is somehow incumbent upon In fact, it is only the first of three such volumes, Who am I, for heaven's sake, to be worthy of such a high-ticket item? Ihave to say I'm not worth it — no matter what anyone says, it just isn't so, Yet here this vo! its, in your hand, joining two similar valumas of my DEADMAN and my GREEN LANTERN/ GREEN ARROW work, each selling for an outrageous price. Beliove me, if it was me selling @ book at this price it would have to tell you how the whole Universe works. Still, if you bought this, | humbly thank you. First off, let me say that without the incredible Denny O'Neil, the GLYGA volume would not have seen the light of day. Denny somehow saw a void in he history of camies that ne one had filled ‘or probably could fill, and at exactly the right moment he stepped in with the right stuff. Feople often overlook Denny's sensitivity + gg and com- mitment to. collaboration fon the Batman “ stories we did together, and I will always be grateful for his contributions, ideas, concents, and intelligent presentation in usable story form.When you have all three volumes of this sories, I bid you, in one sitting, to read {hrough Denny's Batman stories, There is an evolution there, a growing in power and ownership of the work that is unmistakable. Who could have done it better? | say no one! Then there's the (I would argue) everlooked Bob Haney. Though they have not gotten the recognition they deserve, Bob Haney's stories are classics ‘of good old comic-book drama, and dense in plat, ingident, and twists. Haney will never be paid enough in money and honor in his lifetime for his contributions to the medium, and that’s a shame. Then there are the others: Editor Julie Schwartz, cranky and cantankerous, but shepherd to a massive number of memorable stories, including about three Spectre stories | wrote and the Superman-Muhammad Ali book that Denny and | wrote. Julie is, simply, a legend. Dick Giordano, inker and friend. A legend, yes, but to me a friend and also a partner in our business for several years, until DG made him VP-Executive Editor, Editor Murray Boltino! and caring man who herded his flock of creatives like a mother. Len Wein and Mary Walfman. Tsimis and Tsuris, Stirring the pot, The first of the Silver Age writers and revolutionaries, predating even Denny. ‘And the others And me? Unwilling mother hen to a pack of radical upstarts. All the new young writers and artists who came to DG Comics in the sixties gravitated to my little borrowed room te hide fram the editors. | was the scout. The first line of dotense, The first to make it through the thrown-up barrier around DC. ‘And maybe that's what these thrae books are about. They span the revolution, Perhaps that's their value A sensitive I did my first WORLD'S FINEST comic-book stary before there was a glint of the revolution. | did my last when they ware finally sick of me and | was fomenting a revolution of another sort — @ revolution of and for creator's rights. Between the two stories, BC Comics went from a company that had not hired a new writer or artist for about 12 years toa company whose staff was two-thirds new people: artists and writers, drawn from all over the world, from Spain to the Philippines. Can you see this evelution in the stories in these three books? Well, sort of. If you know what to look for. ‘You must remember, when I began at DG | had already had a history, a life, a career, When I went into the art field straight aut of high school I couldn't get work from DC Comics. (DC was the only regular comic-book company at the time that did what I considered to be “good” comics) It was 1959. In 1953 Congress had opened hearings on the causes ofjuvenile delinquency, surveying radio, tel evision, movies. and comic books. Those hearings turned into an attack en comic books based on Dr. Frederic Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent, and the medium was almost driven underground There were still Archie Comics, of course, Harvey Comics with Casper, Li't Dot, Audrey and the like, There was Dell, a tower of boredom, Atlas (née Timely), with those six-page Stan Lee stories (Mogog the Gogog, that sort of thing}. Besides DG, that was pretty much it, DG turned me dawn flat. A praduction guy kept me at the lobby reception desk then in a sad, fatherly way sent me away, I never even gat thraugh the door. 1 got work at Archie Comics instead, first as an assistant and background artist, then as a penciller for Howard Nostrand on a comic strip based on the Bat Masterson TV show. Then I did slide films, black and white illustration, some fashion, some movie poster comps, storyboards, and comics for advertising, [had become a professional artist. | landed, with Jerry Capp (Al Capp’s brother), a syndicated comic strip based onthe Ben Casey TV show — a coup singe | was only 20 years ald, | had hurtled completely past comics work As my career advanced, | voluntarily ended the comic strip (we were in 161 newspapers around the world right up to the last day), I spent six months preparing an exclusively illustration-orlented portiolio, which | left at. an advertising agency. A week later | came back to get it, It was gonet Desperate now, | hoped to augment my advertising work with some comic- book work — something | never thought I'd have to do. I first got work at Warren Publishing Then | went back to OG. New, finally, they gave me work. Times had changed, Jack Kirby nad teamed up with Stan Lee, and they were turning ut The Fantastic Four, [ron Man, The Hulk, Spider-Man, etc. In other words, Timely had stirred and awakened and begun doing real comic books They had become Marvel This scared the heck out of DC Comics. That’s when | showed up. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to work for a few months and then head back eut again to go on with my “real” career. L, ‘ >e T, THE DCTIM a TE vu IAD HBO. HIS CORE WHS Arzu I> HIM TRucy THIS 1S THE Dene BetTmey poster, Pessive.. ut Bmn PS ae I Many WAS Pa ssiy™. Bot “Protosnp WouULD Bre Teg te ur€.,. ACS By nd, Loatsnt6D Proto... THE" nn c Posturwse OF OTNES Comninst> wrt Bets. “AUMOST™ ALIVE » SMOACE Fram BROWS upom Gece LiTThen a funny thing happened. Somewhere between WORLD'S FINEST COMICS and THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD (or maybe THE ADVENTURES OF JERRY LEWIS) something had changed. I had fallen in love with doing comic books. Don't ask. 1 really don’t know what it was. It was something... transporting. It was better than advertising, better than comic strips. Two things happened. wel things happened, but two in particular. First, | realized | was drawing Batman and Superman and doing a lousy job of it. Here was a missed opportunity that | would no longer overlook. The trouble was that now | wanted te get into Batman (and maybe Superman), but | was busy doing the Spectre and Deadman and a ton of other stuff. How te gat back to doing Batman? Julie Schwartz, the Batman editor, was ticked when | was switched from his SPECTRE to Jack Miller's DEAGMAN, so when I mentioned my doing Batman he told me to get out of his office, The second thing that happened was that | came to the realization that DC was working in the Dark Ages, stuck in 1953 and hicling behind the safety of the status quo. Yes, it’s true, Marvel had begun to kick ass and DG Comics didn’t like it, Problem was, they didn’t quite know what te do about it. After ten years in the Dark Ages, they were stalled. The world had gone on. The question was, what could | do to kick-start this behemoth? Even if | could come up with a course of action, the old guard would inevitably fight me every step of the way. But you see, I didn’t really have any choice — I'd fallen in love with comics. And 50 comics would have to be changed to suit me. (Heh.) Well, it was a bad pian but it worked. a lot of There were already people in place who wanted to try new things. There were young artists out there whose talents could stir things up, if | could prod them along and challenge them. Even in the production room, where things were worst of all, there were one or two people who had done experimental work ten or twenty years before. There was Jack Adier, whe pioneered 3-D work at DG. There was Sol Harrison, whe had more opportunities to do creative work for charities than he did for OG Gomics. And the great Carmine Infantino was getting tired of just drawing Batman and wanted more of a challenge. The pieces were all there. It only took a little friendly Persuasion — that and someone Prepared to take risks. I went to see Murray Boltinoff, the editor of THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD At that time Boltinoff, because of the Batman TV show, was teaming up Batman with any other character that struck his fancy, Maybe Julie Schwartz wouldn't use me on BATMAN because | was already doing DEADMAN, | thought, butt Boitinoff said he would use me on any of his titles. | asked if | could do THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD and he said yes. Now I was going to do Batman again, and this time | would try to do it right In this volume, you can see that process. I made a lot of mistakes. But | was trying to learn how to do good comic books. Some of you saw it happen at the time, and to you | say, “Welcome back.” To the others — | hope you enjoy this journey. — Neal Adams January, 2003.soc ss 3 )3) Te nT = Sra” ID) iP i] E ENTY OF: Gi 25 ieKs: lomres “ ByMAR. NO. 200 PAT 12 [>ie tay ANN NoMTZ) Ky MAR. TS) 1Die. MAN OF STEEL, DIE! OUR SUPERMAN REVENGE SQUAD WILL DESTROY YOU!ni Pee i y SUPER MC LOS ES Toe OUS FF St teow aman, £2 PERIL: SER! ee n w TH Ost, GOTH OF Se CRUMSS WILL wink 4 TEMESTONE f ” BAT REVENGE SQOUAGS!INaa ) BETTER Mum iff “ait / Systran Te / ALTERNATE PLAN VE Vi Firs SUPERMAN! SUPERMAN REVENGE SQUAD. GREEN, ike GREEN KRYPTONITE - WHICH sipeRan } vy Foo! x YOU READ Ti TM TELE CORT! NEWSSTANG IN Bae eaarian At SUPERMAN Have | POOR BATAAN wa: CHUMP e won BY SUPERMAN ‘OLSEN TEAM 1965,‘BUT BATMAN AnO ROBIN Won THEIR SHARE OF THe BETS. an - AGING SU tosinlcs A ON OUR ANNUAL CAPER! Ha, Ha] SUPERMAN S GOTH TEAMS WILL BE AND BATMAN { ) IN TOP FORM FOR THE COMPETITION ! WE WON'T YOU AMATEURS. UNDERESTIMATE LISTEN cue AND CL Tete THE WEW RULES TO EXTERMINATE SUPERMAN AND BATAAN THisCOMMISSIONER! BATMAN 1S WAGERING, HIS MINIATURE CRIME CLUE COMPUTER... TM USING aN ANT/-~ GRAV FEATHER THE BIRG WORLD| OF AVIAR / TIMAy, WHAT: WITH THIS FLYING ANO THIS MODEL, COMBAT MACHINE PROM. THE GLADIATOR PLANET, THIS INTELLIGENCE EXPANDER FROM THE! CEREBRON Galax THIS GHOULD BE A A erty You Bors THE ACTION /ACTING QUICKLY, JIMMY USES JUDG... J [As THE BRIEF BATTLE ENDS... [ WE'LL HOLD HI WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT? 4 Z DON'T Know Thats WHAT VOU THINK, COMMISSIONER, MINUTES LATER, IN A DETENTION CELL. Bi 1 iets rumy fer. por 7! a EVERYTHING [5 GOING EXACTLY AS PLANNED! suit ree! THE MENTAL “ayHEM" GETS UNDER WAY int ROUND ONE OF THE bey PLEL OF WITS, N FART DS‘OUR CONTEST Becins! SET uP YOUR FIRST BRAIN- TWISTER In THAT UNSREAKABLE GLASS CHAMBER, HERG IN THE BASEMENT OF POLICE WEACQUARTERS FAIR WARNING! Here's AN ELEMENT oF OF MLLEMIN ATOMS, Gas will Be RELEASEO FROM Taar vent! you HAVE FIVE MIMUTES Ta Stor THOSE FUMES BEFORE YoU Blac [= AsuTe ANC You’RE wor THE Gas 15, POURING IN! BUT HOW DO IE REACH THE VENTS ITs, Too HIGH To Sete ane THE Glass WALLS ARE TOS stick To Clima s wart! I JUST HAC’ A BRAINSTORM! ters sen. 7 Wave SOME MATCHES ANO| A PIECE OF PAPER IN MY UTILITY BELT! Fo.oma the pacer INTO AN “AIRPLANE, SATMAN SETS IT AEIRG, ANIO ar YO CAN You THE THAT? HE USED THE BURNING PAPER AIRFLANG TO SET FING TO THE Gas, THUS BURNING THE FUMESSCORE ONE FOR. GROTHERS A 1, gayetast Now i vat cn rumen. \ fi WES TURN To SET UP} MAN Sees THe A EROBLEM FOR City Arata SUPERMAN TO HAS LINED He Sotvee pf PROBLEM WAITING POR, pee Fou ont Sacred THERE IT JS, Pat, le GESOLETE! TANKER TBOUGNT AS MILLIONAIRE, BRUCE WAYNE! ALES PROM THE NEAREST SHIPPING LANE: WHY? The oni. o” | HERE ARE THREE DEVICES KNOWN FOR THE WOLSE THEY MAKE WITHOUT USING YOUR SUPER- POWERS, CETECT eee ON A BELL, A WHISTLE ANP A CANNON... THIS SHOULON'T BE TSO ToueH / wary EMERGENCY REPAIR! | FIXED. 5c It To KEEP eye On THe PROBLEM May NOT BE AS Casy TO SOLVE, as IT LoOKE! LET'S SCE Now! THis VesceL Is FAR FROM ALL SHIPPING LANES. 3 ANC BATMAAL TOLO ME IO walt FoR ONG HOUR BEFORE ACTIVATING THE LOUDEST SOUND= MAKING DEVICE! Ee ge asa Ee YES. IT ALL ADDS UP! TMs IS THE BABY/TLL SCAM THE WHISTLE WITH My FIST!“T wAS CHECKING THe Time HEN NOTICED A PECULIAR, SOUND St pe THIS STEAM WHISTLE IS COVERING UP AN 87044 OMI WHICH CONTAINS RABIGACTIVE AN ABOuE WOULO MAKE THE LOUPEST SaUNO stuck To THe | BLEW IME WHISTLE RULES, Bbrad an, TiMeay's| CN OU, BATMAN! HE J NAL ACTIVATED THE DEVICE a WateH THAT TIPPED ME THAT CONTAINED A CONCEALED a AP RAIS tT IONE \ SURVIVE THE BIG Boom * SSRN SUR wei? eae RELAX ¢ walt TILL Tomorrow! OUR PLAN caw’TGuess THat ¥ ATTACKES ‘0 Loe! I YANK OFF THESE ECIAL BUTTONS FROM MY rere mance me Reae Bene REVENGE SQUAD Next oay, UNAWARE OF THE DIRTY WORM AFOOT, ERENT, WEA MATERIAL! SECONDS LaTER, = REVENGENO! WE OF THE SUPERMAN REVENGE SOUAB NANT OUR Mas THANKS, SPER Pf. Burr My PrON CROPPER WASNT GOING TO LET Me KOGE TH SOOM. STRANGE/ 1'D HAVE SWORN HE CHOSE THe RIGHT CABLE... CON'T KHOW aw LECT "En mixes Ue y yo ae [ raaod Uniti 90 meOOLe! Tat THAT PS SOL VERAuk THE OTWER TARGETS SN THE PROVING GROUNDS | “NE HAVE /GMT CONCENTRIC RINGS, BUT” £ THE ONE ON THE RIGHT Has SEVEN.-.5O [7 must BE THE PHONE Y!.. TL LAUNEH MY¥seLe at THE BULL's-EyG) GN THE LEFT. With THE SPEED OF LIGHT, THE CUAL MISSILES STRIKE HOME, JUST AS SUPERMAN HIT THE REAL TARGET! SUT ONLY THE PHONEY ONE WAS SUPPOSED TO EXPLODE OUR TELEPORT MISSILE SPLIT AND SHATTERED BOTH TARGETS. Now THEY CON"T KNOW WeAcAt ONE WAS PHONEY. SO DOESN'T wins TODAY'S, YOU FOOL ‘ALL OUR SCHEMING WAS WASTED. NOw, WE MUST WAIT TILL BUT THE GATMAN REVENGE SQUAD AS WATCHING. SUPERMAN 15 HEAGING FOR THE == EORRECT TARGET! WE EANT LET Jo Sit WIN Toul ACTIVATE THe TELEPORT. AUSSILE Gimmick THe SUR EeALaN REVENGERS GAVE US/TTLL SPLIT Ras ies wane Ace. ONE Te. BLOW UP GACH TARGET? rah peel OTH TARGETS WERE BLASTED APART, SO TLL NEVER KNOW IFT SCOFED ESMPETITICN WAS'A STAND-OFF, NO CHE WINS A TROPHY! TOMORROW WILL BE YOUR LAST HOLD IT COMMISSIONER! I's OUR JUSTICE LEQGUE BuDCY, THe FLASH! THis must BEAS THE FLASH REPORTS CALL YOUR OUEL OFF/THE SANCTUARY IS BEING MENACED BY A MYSTERIOUS FOE! ALU MEMBERS MUST BRING THEI LATEST SECURITY Devices TD AN EMERGENCY MEETING ! WE COULON'T Rigi Usina OUR SIGNALERS: FOR PEAR THEY'G BE INTERCEPTEDY BATMAN AND T WIL star Ore at ~ S Al ZERO HoUR, THIS REMOTE CONTROL’ GimmicK WILL ACTIVATE AHIODEN BOMB IN THE SUME@MtAN TROPHY ME WON THAT WILL GESTROY Ba Tansar AND His FAT- CRUE? ANG OUR DEeWicE WILL RIGGER A COUBLE- ACTION GuasT THAT WILL wire OUT SUPERMAN BRD iS FORTRESS ! WAIT! SINCE THIS YEAR'S QUEL OF WITS ENDS INA THE, EACH CONTESTANT SHOULD PICK ONE OF HIS. COMPETITOR'S TROPHIES, AS A MEMENTO. Prme! 1 Ler Jinan PICK nay TROPHY, ANG ROBIN SHUTTING OFF THEIR MONITORS, THE REVENGE SQUACS START A GRIM LOTIERY,. TBREW THO BAT-SYMBOL # TWIN THE HONOR OF PRESSING THE TRIGGER, ANC EGET THE GLORY OF KILLING “SUPERMAN! AT THE REVENGE SQUADS" LAIR. WHAT A BREAK! THOSE SAPS WILL BOTH TAKE TROPHIES THAT THE TRIGGER - MAN WHO ATTACKEC OLSEN WAS A PLANT? HE BOoBY- TeaPreo ALL THOSE TROMHIES WITH DEVICES IN HS SUIT BUTTONS ATTENTION / THE MONITOR'S. TRACKING BEAMS INDICATE THAT, BOTH OUR ENEMIES Have ENTERED. THEIR: HEADQUARTERS!FIRE ONE! FIRE TWO! UT: lAPED CHUNK OF, GOOLE KRYPTONITE..WHICH ERASED yp SUPERMAN'S FOWEIE?“THEN WE EXAMINED THE CONTROLS. STANO BACK. SUPERMAN! THE MULTIOLIER FAILED BECAUSE TT Was BGGRY TRAPPER WT Cole «AYR TONITE, WHICH CaN ERASE FOUR POWERS! TEN YOU'D BE A SITTING CucK ror This SecoNe Gaoaeten an suse teenie \ SiN) SUPERBOME * ct ANG WHEN WE CHECKED THE OTHER TROPHIES...” BOosY-TRAPPED TO KILL EITHER SUPERMAN OR BATMAN! IE WE EOULO ONLY FIND OUT WHE ANNED THIS MURDER SCHEME. Sau.M PL THE WEAPONS WERE CESIGNES To ae TRIaceReD ey By HEMOTE- CONTROLLED ELECTRONIC WAVES! WE Can Use THEM “Wwe RIGGED UP BOGBY- TRAPS OF Cun OWN..WITH FAKE GOLD K. 1 THEY BLEW ue YOUR Guaimy INSTEAD OF one AS Juany Enos Is STORY WELL, THAT WRAPS IT UF Bors? aut CONT Ger Clecouracam: rau SUPERMAN REVENGERS WILL HAVE YEARS IN AND LATER. TRACING THE. SIGNAL WHICH TRIGGERED THE BLasTLETS Po EPS BEEP- BEEP: AFTER WE TRACE THE BEAM TO ITS ORIGIN POINT, WE'LL Plelg UP BATMAN AND ROBIN, THEN WE ean ease IN Poe THE SHOWSOWN! Ss WHI THE < Barman sovaD Mas TO SETTEC FOR AN, BUT Your WEAPONS Wik Be SARE In OUR TROPHY COLLECTIONS!THOSE misTS ARE PISSOLVING YOUR CLOTHES, HELLO Paes ie BATMAN. PROVEP YOURE 7 OR SHOLILP SUPERMAN! , | Say... PRUE WAYNE! THESE TWO MEN HAVE 1 IDENTITIES OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST CRIME-FIGHTERS. ARE THE > SGP OR EVILE AND WILL THEY BRING ABGUT. UT(AAS REPORTER CLARK KENT APPROACHES THE LAVISH ACANSION Cm MOWE STAR ROALD ASE Bee THiS 1S ONE INTERVIEW TIO rit REALLY GOING TO 1S BEEN ThE ASTEGNOON PASSES QUICKLY AS THE BAMED ACTOR TAKES CLAGE THROUGH THE SPACIOUS WOUSE, THantc YOU, In. Et ALWAYS EW, WuAaAT 2? WHERE O10 f vou ceET A CRAZY IDEA tee THAT?RE UNEARTICY AUETE £17ERALLY DISSOLVE CLARK'S GQUTER CLOTHES “REVEALS THE OINAME PIGURE OF RED AND BLUE UNDERNEAT TEMPER, TEMPER, oT WONT YOU DONE THE REAL JASON? —4 FIM TELLING You THIS, SUPERMAN, BECAUSE I NEED YOUR HELP DESPERATELY! T Ati OUR, From THE TH PLANET IM THE Samus EQUIVALENT OF VEE PRESIDENT! A FEN Days Aso, THE TONTOR: ASSASSINAT: UNENOWN EN! GREAT PUN ANIA! THE TONTORT WASBYP civ DERE ES A TevAAay ndLeNiNe PERIOD BEKORE T SUCCEED MIM! 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BUT I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE YOU FRIEND HAS HIDDEN MY QUARRY! HE'S SUMMONING Me SUPERGIRL! iY SUPER-HEARING HAS PICKED UPAN ULTRASONIC EMERGENCY SIGNAL FROM HIS PLANE! T wowpee wHar BATMAN'S BOING OVER STANHOPE! ONE WOULD BE AT His , FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE 4 3 oT MUST 4 RENDEL CUS WITH SOME OTHER AGENTS OF AY WORLD FIRST! TUL MEET WOU AT THE FORTRESS. WHENHELD: ON: RATTAN Tee: ATPLANE (5 iS FAS TM mucH Ens TERT TL. Push YOU THERE NA WINKS BRR! 144 FREEZING, HURRY WITH THAT GIANT EN SUPERGIRL! THIS 15 NO STEAM HOLD YOUR HORSES A SEC, BATMAN! 1 JUST HOPE SUPERMAN IE AWAY... AND PUR IS ALONE IN) MERE? THEN WELL HAVE NO TROUBLE CAPTURING HIM? am You oe ws SUPERGIRL! Ap a! an ‘KEEPiS f grconbs fe BUT OW THe a oy ova coum BR THAT'S: All THE ire coma ie, PUR Tarow ano nis auopies WiLL BE aap 7Mie hg? THE NEXT MORNING, =m SHORTLY in THE HOME OF POLICE EOMMIESIONER GORDON WHE HEART OF TWO 1S BREAKRACTING WITH HIS DALGHTER BARBARA. y ANO REPORTS ARE STILL “ THAD 70 CONTACT yOu, BATGIRLIAND SINCE T DON'T KNOW YOUR CIVILIAN IDENTITY, EWAS FORCED To CREATE A MYSTERY FOR YOU TO INVESTIGATES WELL, YOU SURE Have mY ATTENTION NOW! WHATS LPP.AOBIME Z TRIED Jo comact ou EARLIER TODAY ABOUT A FEUD BE TWEEN SUPERMAN RATER AT TNE ABANDONED MOUNTAINTOP GBSERUATORY WHICH /S THE SECRET HEAD- QUARTERS OF TiN AND ROBIN.» EVEN SUPERMAN AND BATMAN DON'T XNOW ABOUT THIS PLACE..OR THE SECRET MONITOR HOOK-UPS WE'VE PLANTED IN THE FORTRESS AND THE BAT CAVE! THERE'S ONE OF THE ALIENS! TURN ON THe SCLND SO We CAN HEAR WHAT |WHEN SUPERMAN BRINGS TRE CURVACEOUS CRIME- ASHTER UP TO BATE. Ms WONT LIKE FIGHTING AGAINGT GAT Tie WexT pa¥ In ME TROPOLIE, AS CUB REPORTER FHMIAY OLSEN RETURNS TO WS. ABOUT TIME YOU GOT Bac! YES..7 JUST RETURNED! a! AND Z FOUND OUT ABOUT THE BIG HASSLE! ‘COME ON... MAYBE WE CAN MAKE SOME SENSE OUT OF IT AT SEe YOU LATER, THRON! WELL TRY TO. Dig UP EVIDENCE TO SHOW WHERE SUPER- MAN HAS HIDDEN BursWe MUST GET Jo SUPERMAN AND BATAAN AND TELL THEM THE 50 THAT'S THE SECRET OF WE TO ALIENS: TD NEVER HAVE GUESSED IT! WATCH IT, ROGIME A PELLETS FALLING FROM THE OPENING IN THE COME! a: LOOKS LIKE ree are - ‘A S. ABA ao WHLE WE 1's AGoop —) FACH MEMBER'S THING YOU THOUGHT GNALER 1S OF USING THE JUSTICE LEAGUE, ATTUNED TO A DIFFERENT SiaNALER IN SUPERMAN'S ) EREQUENGY! KNOWING SUPERMAN'S, TNS ABLE 10 USE A TRACKined Belice 70THOPE BATMAN KNOWS WHAT 3 HE'S BOING! HE TOLD ME To +4 Pp ORAW SUPERMAN'S JUST ENO: ATTENTION BY KRYPT Oi ATTACKING o ne YOUR HE 1 TRON! To! ~ ‘STAY Back! 1 PON'T WANT To HURT YOU... ByYMAMIE FIGURE In BLUE AND GRE | OCH! KRYPTONITE? ) WHILE SUPERMAN AND BATAAN FIGHT7 COpLO Basi y BREAK SoTANG IVE GOT YOU, BATMAN! ALL T NEEDED WAS A FEW. SECONDS TO RECOVER! WITH MY STRETCHABLE CAPE: BINDING YOUR ARMS, YOU CAN'T USE THOSE: P= GLOVES ON ME AGAIN! TAKE "EM OFF HUM, BATGIRLD y LOOK! SOMETHING'S CAUSED THIS TERRIBLE a WRONG WITH TIROM. ACEIDENT. 1b HOPED WE'S COLLAPSING? HEY WOULD sinrLy MAKE A SMOKE SCREEN. THE BEST LAID PLANS, OF IgE AND SUPERGIRL S CAN ASTRAY. 1M AFRAID, WHO 15 ‘THe ALIEN” INSIDE WHAT ARE You TALKING ABQUT?, TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT MY PACES ITS. ONLY A HEAD - SayTHERE JST ONE! THERE WEVER WERE TWO ALIENS! TVE BEEN PLAYING: BOTH PARTS AL ALONG! Tr was tHe Fines PERFORMANCE OF HY ACTING CAREER? ‘BUT THAT'S. IMPossi HOW IN THE: LATEST WVENTIO! DISCOVERIES LOOK! THIS IS A MINIATURE JET RACK IT CAM PROPEL A VAAN ANYWHERE ON EARTH ‘AT TREMENDOUS SPEER! THAT IS AM ARTIFICIAL RACIO- ACTIVE ELEMENT F CREATED S IT's LIGHT ENQUGH Te FLOAT, BUT EXTREMELY UNSTABLE - ANG QUITE BANGEROUS BUT HERE'S mY GREATEST DISCOVERY.-AND ‘ONE F'Lt ONLY, REVEAL TOYOU! IVE BEEN WORKING VATH VOICE PRINTS: WHICH ARE AS BISTINGTIVE AS FINGERPRINTS! ie yp yy "VE_ONLY A FEW MINUTES TO LIVE... TLL TELL YOU THE WHOLE STORY! FEW PEOPLE KNEW THAT fav LATE BROTHER, DESMOND. JASON, WAS BRILLIANT SCIENTIST. FABRIC- DISSOLVING: CHEMICAL BOMB! pre But IVE USED RECORDINGS MADE BY WELL-KNOWN PERSONS...AND LOOK! RE WO VOICE PATTERNS ON THE LECT BELONG TO REPORTER CLARK KENT AND MILLIONAIRE BRUCE WAYME! THE THO OM THE RIGHT BELONE 10 SUPERMAN AND BATMAN! THERE'S Way NOTHING NEW IN THATS T'VE READ THAT MANY POLICE DEPARTMENTS USE SUCH MEANS OF IBENTIFICATION! MOENTICALL YOUVE LEARNED WHO THEY REALLY ARE!I'P USED MY KNOWLEDGE...CF BATMAN'S PATAAAM? THAT - IPENTITY...10 FIND THE BAT CAVE... ALIENS ASHOWEY? WE CAN ANP $0...T-I FOOLEP ALL OF YOU! 3€OUGHE I PULLED OFF,..THE GREATEST PERFORMANCE m, OF ALL TUME! AAAA aA ‘SCONER BUT SOMEONE BELAYED Us! a YOU MUST HAVE. KNOWN ALL ALONG THAT ) “F cnieo BATMAN WAND WE PECIRED TO-HEMOR JASON, ISO HED BIE HAPPY BUT | OBVIOUSLY, BATMAN = KEPT Al EVE OM YOU BOFS..TRAUED [USED FAKE KRYPTON TE OM YOUFBUT) yeu 10 YouiR wiDECUT.. ANP UEP A | why DIENT YOU LET E68 IN ON HARMLESS GAS BoNa To Keer You [THE SECRET? GOOG! JASONS. we were \ ACT SUCCEEDED convinces | BARTALLY..AS yes! ‘Dur’ TOL? ME HE WAS FROM THE StH PLANET IN THE SIRIUS SyeTEM! BUT F ONCE EXFLORED| THAT PLANET. AND IT'S eal Wi -RAY VISION SHOWED TAGON WAS BEHIND THE MASK:..AND SOME DEVICES WN MY AOR TRESS REVEALED HE WAS YING OF RADIATION POISGNING! HELL ALWAYS BE BUT WIS GREATEST PERFORMANCE REMEMBERED FOR HIS Was A PRIVATE ONE... JUST FO) GREAT SCREEN ROLES! iz 2S! THAT'S A MEMORY WE CAN Alt TREASURE?! tei, eCECRETS BancnvelBl eos satiian N Sy) et aur, INSTEAD, ‘ ww Ws 3" IM CAUSING ] IN vse) ra HIS DEATH!THE TRAE SF THE HOOK:NO, BATMANS in YF SAY TI Deaoman fret ALKS THE LANOTHER suRDER, COMMITTED By THE DICATE, T ‘Peoroomarnens // ree Inc NT BEA root, GORDON! THEY'RE PRESS AND HAVE EVERY RIGHT! Fone cine rane you, J Save THe BATMAN, WHY HAVENT 7 ic) OU BISCOVERED THE <” PAPERS F NAMED Hiv. THIS, \ JUST GREAT! “Hho DEBATI THE WHG Sati To RUN AN OPERATION niBiCarE! Mout BOTH OF YOU! AND YOU KNOW I HAVE THE PowER To POIT!5 KASNE | ‘GORDON WiLL FIND WHITEY MARSH'S excuse, MET SAW THE AURDER BY THE POWER OF RAM KUSHNA J KEEP YOUR Is PRESSES: fy CAME TO. ‘GOTHAM, TO IBTECTIVE, TO HELP ANE FIND ay LER.BOSTON BRANDS MURDERER, IDNOW THAT KILLER'S WERE! TH He on an RATAN CIEE ONERS, BE ACAEAN ENTERS TH THE CASE, IGNORING: S Gut TM... ER... EDDIE MARSH, WHITEY’'S BROTHER! Tim ASKIN’ , MOOK! s THIS, DEADMAN'S LUC IS THIS MY ROTTEN KING NE AGAIN . you ToT WHITEY MAYBE Ws A WRONG PUNK BUT His KELIN, 7SOD ENOUGH FOR TO TAKE MAY CASE, NOT IMPORTANT ENOUGH HIS DEATH NEEDS: AVENSINY AWYBOBY'S ) WHAT'S OES! YOU HEAR YOUR GAME, Mer ‘@ISTER? WHITEY HAD NO BROTHER! Just. WHO ARE YOU, ANYWAY? TAKE conc! HE'S: FLIPPE TON HE'S COLLARED! BUT TC BIDWIT HIT I GIVE, BAT CUY! Tine tgs Boon ehh Wo EaDAian GUY CLOBBERED! =!OTHAM'S MIGHT, UNAWARE HE t: |. DEAOMAN! LREALLY T THE BAT GUY INTO A Al AMED! IVENEXT INSTANT... IN HERE, QUICKLY, ‘SiRe=! MAKES US EVEN FOR Ine GETTING Him nO TeouBLE a Sint ANOTHER CAR CoM WHY, HOME, SIR’ ITS THE OnLy sare . PLACE AT_ATIME 11's L, ALFRED. sin! Sy LiKE THIS! LUCKILY “E OBSERVED THAT SYNDICATE = m ALTEMer To ERASE , N a BER), omer. AER, Mou ALC RIGHT, castors eens es E TOoE REVERED Se ROMAN FE COMING UF ei | a Gis ua bi cae Wi als ae‘Suorier.. SO BATMAN'S THAT SPOILED SUPER- RICH THAT TAPE RECORDER! PLAYBOY... !EVEN BOSTON MAYBE IT'S THE ANSWER: HERE WE ARE SiR! LE BRAN, A NO-ACCOUNT To MY SEARCH FOR MY NOW YOU CAN BRUCE WAYAE? AERIALIST FROM A FLEA BECOME BRUCE BITTEN CARNY HEARD WAYNE AGAIN! GREAT BLAZES, 5 I'VE STUMBLED ONTO BATMAN ‘ 7 a ‘SOME MINUTES AFTER CEAQMAM HAS | $"AS OFAOMAM, AERIALIST SUPREME. L QEFIED ie BeATH TWICE, DAILY! 1 NEVER FIGURED “HE'D Come ee oan FOR ME WITH A RIFLE... AND WEARIN' A WOOK!* HOWE THE TAP z = CORDER ON PLAYBACK? IY OM VOICE COMING: "THE FALL TOOK wis ENOUGH 10 KILL ANYBODY . WITHOUT ADDIN' LISTEN, GRUCE- BABY, THE WEIGHT OF PLEASE... CAUSE YOU A_30 CALIBERS AIN'T HEARD NOTHIN’ YET..d BREATHED, TASTED LiFe’sS 30¥5 AND HAG Kooks 7 ILCAN HEAR, BUT Twas | “ SEE, THINK, FEEL, WRONG... T cp AND STILL Tia WAS DEAD — JST A PHANTOM AND YET AGAIN, ws A GHOST! I WASN'T”1, RAMA KUSHNA, SPIRIT OF THE UNIVERSE, Give LIVING MEN UNTIL You FIND AND TOY YOuR own § KILLER! THAT'S WHY T NEED YOu BATMAN? YOU, THE WORLE'S GREATEST MANHUNTER, YOU OTTA FIN TA PUMEHEAC. AERIAL eae Beek KOREVER, BATMAN! Pe EASE, HELP : Me = Oe CONT LET ME BE A PeanromHEY WHERE WE GOMG, x Fa " Bkucle aaBY? vouaReN'T |Eumne COMA” BLASS £3 aruce WAYNE, T'VE A NNER DATE AT CARLETON fe KANE'S <1 ABATE nar coute MeLevouR [ts exerains EVERY THING... THE MAN WHO ASSAULTED ME way” Loss GF MEMORY. UNTIL T GOF HOME...d AND HE'S RIGHT. TCAWT Ler Mis DEATH GO UNAVENGED, UNPUNISHED! ALL RIGHT DEAPMAN! T KNOW YOU'RE HERE. d )\cisten! Tr race YOUR CASE...T'LL MELP, You'rind Your f saLLER? UAH! GOOD MA, SOMETIMES THER HOPE ...FOR JUSTICE — XANADU, DEADMAN! MR. WAYNE > Sore me ! YY ees, -— = wow! war, ure A PILE, BUNGALOW! IT BEFITS earman! BONE OF THE WORLD'S RICHEST MEN, NOT AAAH, BRUCE, GOOD EVENING, WELCOME! CARLETON...f Lh KAINE'S GOT THE MOST COMPLETE CRIME FILE IN BEING UNSEEN BOSTON, You CAN CHEK IT OUT ON WHITEY MARSH! 1'D Lint ANY INFO. YOU CAN FIND.MOMENTS LATER. Fa aes | ao S| [ress me's sero” ‘AND. GI BEING A DO-GOODER sebeas | | Sgseect 258, Siececn BRUCE, GOTHAM MUST Be Saveo! THE SYNDICATE 15 CHOKING: IT TO PEATH! GORDON AND @ATMAN ARE BAFCLED--HOPELESS! THEY KAINE SE APREAL TO PALL GECENT CITIZENS TO. JON MY CRUSADE TO RID OUR E17 ¥ OF CORRUPTION, CRIME, AND INCOMPETENTS’ LIKE COMMISSIONER GORDON AND BATMAN! (I KING'S SURE AKIN" UP THIS BURG: AND SO ARE THE COPS BUT WHAT'S WITH BATMAN F WHERE'S HE HAD To u! His REAL Name. MBS CHILLPHE'S THE BROTHER OF THE MAN WHO KILLED AY PARENTS! WELL, ZL BEA SPOCK'S UNCLE? SOT A REASON FOR FAYING ON MONK'S Tr Got TO GET HIM BEFORE” HE GETS me! weQF FU MANCHU. ROOM. AND: LOADED WiiTH MACHINES! LAY OFF, BATMAN S17’ HOOK We WANT! HOOK AUAS MONK AAANVILLE ALIAS MAN CHILLE Dit, BATMAN! T BEEN (AITIN’ A LONG TIME TO PAY YOU OFF FOR MY THER JOE Cre (ene oscar tite, ee bs]WITH ONE SWIFT MOTION, THE BATMAN'S BODY SCOOPS UP3 HOOK lS Raney GIR, TH TOTHER GUN! CMLL! WHE: IS "THE KING"? 48 SABRE P Bic UM COLTRANE > a WHO? BEFORE 1 CHECK OUT, SATMAN... GOTTA SQUARE THINGS! “THE KING "HAD ME KitL MARSH. HE POUBLE-cRo: z as HIB STHE. Payansien L HE'S GONE../THE ome oes“THE KING” GUNNING: JHE iauST'VE READ OF BOSTON BRAND'S MURDER,.-TRIED TO MAKE MAR: KILLING LOOK Like THE SAME MAN DID ITS EASY LOANS... THIS Pe EVIDENTLY THE SYNDICATE'S P MAN! CLEVER! WHO SUSPECT HERE WITH MASTERS. HE'S ALL GONE!, OTALLYL HE KING'S * aoe GETTING NERVOUS MUST KNOW WE'RE_ON HIS, TRAIL... A OK N DL LONG AFTER, A SKIFF SCULLS SILENTLY ON BLACK WATERS. a THIS CO! NGERS...TWO HUNTERS ENTERING A DAR THe ANSWER TOLVERYTHINE? “KUBLA® 7 WRITTEN GN THAT SCRA f MANES SET-ubs Way's 3 RNER ActouNTe me A CLUE! IN BATMAN TAKING US (7 COLERIOGE'S POEM, "KUBLA KHAN ®. 2A PALACE, ‘KAMADU, WHEREMOMENTS LATER, INSIDE. Bey cir, *pavmaster "Has. YA BeeneiscuarceD” WELL, CARLETON KANE CALLS HIS PLACE AaADU.. AND THIS. STREAM COULD Be mic “SACRED RIVER®., Ay HUNCH Us THAT THE ACCOUNT NAME I5 CODE! GOOD THING HE DOESN'T HAVE GUARDS On His “RIVER! coon! wrtH oy YREFORM" CAMPAIGN MOVING TO A CLIMAX, NO ONE MUST BETRAY my SECRET ROLE AS “PME Kine St BuT ins A SCHEME YOU'LL NEVER, REVEAL TO ANYONE, BATMAN! iE just SUMMONED HELPY YOU'RE TRAPPED FOREVER. IN XAMABUS k <> us LASS ‘BUTLER... YOU HAD ME FOOLED FOR A LONG TIME, KAINE! HAVE ALITTLE SPORT yITH THE NO, 1 ALONE CONCEIVE VT ALL,,.THE CRIME WAVE TO AABKE GOTHAM TURN TO ME AS ITS SAVIOR, THEN POLITICAL POWER TO GIVE ME ABSOLUTE CONTROL OF mE citys GREAT BATMAN BEFORE rHave AG YOUR LIFELESS: Booy BURIED A MUNDRED: FEET BENEATH THESE STONES,YOU CAN'T EVADE THE swoRD ) HE'S RIGHT... NO MATTER, OF A TRAINED SAMURAIFOR 7 WHAT BAIMAN SAID, TNE LONG, BATAMAN! ‘SOT TO Tat RAINE b eked ie BODY... WHOA... COMPANY! iy ts GOTTA TAKE CARI — DEAOMAN ENTERS THE BODY GF ONE OF THE THUGS AI Without PAUSE, PEADMAN HURLS HIS BORROWEP BODY AT GE HARGLE WALL, KNO} Then, as Nes The SWORD: DRIVES THE Z'VE TIRED OF DUEL! THE GAME IS OVER... 4 ijBut BATMAN'S TRAINED REFLEXES: SNAP INTO ACTION AND. Y NOT ON YOUR LIFE, KAINES Fares rea FE Oe r00 eared, HES FUREOL Pig Gaia. ( THANKS, BOSTON...f Tint OAT! ONCE IN MANABU, THERE LIVED" HUBLA" KAINE. MYWMERE ALF, THE SACRED RIVER RAN... THROU! CAVERNS MEASURELESS TO.LISTEN, DEADMAN... MAYBE HEY! I CAN'T LET BATMAN GOON THis WAY/T'LL JUST HOP| INSIDE HIM A SEC... ANDios Now ONE MAN'S ARM SCRAWLS ANOTHER MAN MESSAGE... A MESSAGE FROM... DEADMANL, KILLER, THE HOOK"... AND YES, MAYBE SOMEDAY DEQOMAN WILL REACH THE END OF HIS FANTASTIC NT. ANE PERHAPS BATMAN WILL BE THERE? GUT THAT'S ANOTHER 1 NEVER, THE ENDSYOU'RE JEALOUS, ATMAN.. BECAUSE A w CRIME-FIGHTING CAREER IN THAT COSTUME, (OL BE CLOBBERED!Reerics!SORRY ABOUT THAT, SUT THE PROGRAM TAA ON TONIGHT IS TMAPORTANTS ot THOUGHT Your NETWORK Tan youre THE ale Pom PLAYING FAST AND tooae Win your. Z_CONVINCED THE Boss OFTHE IMPORTANCE OF iy TAKING UP EDITORIAL AIS TIME? YOU'D BETTER WATCH MY SHOW TO- RIGHT YOU'LL FLIP YOUR COWL! HELLGRAMMITE 18 FUG NAME? 1B yOu VALUE OUR IPE Ane GOTH AAA OULE CATCH MAE TONIGHT, BAIMANS JACK RYDER MICS YOU NOT! SEE YOU WELL, SA7MAN, WHAT BO you THINKS BOUNDS LiKE THE SENS ATIONALICN BxXAcTEy IE We Ht He PaRIC BUTTON EQSTUMED CLOWN SOMEBODY IMAGINES; 1S ARQUNG, WE'D HeVER SOtve are REAL PUZZLER GS BRANIGAN? Any MUNCH 1G. HE WAS MUSCLING IN ON THE IaacK RACKET AND HIS GANGSTER Comren= TION LIQUIDATED HIMTHE LARVA OF THE DOBEON FLY! A DARK, pedotr Bus wind A HELLGRAM- MATE? ARE Yau READY 10 HELP Me CATCH NELLGRAMMITES, HOW DO-t, KNow HE'S NOT A SPIN-OFF oF FOUR FeVeRer REPORTER'S BRAIN, RYDER? 7 TRYING To Hypo YOUR TY RATING! Wane SELVIEVE= ley Macecrammire's Y eur Poison! ou set Gorta stor Himeen A (eee asase a You KNOWS THAT MEANS DEFEAT, HEAPUT, FINISHEDY\Z rz G we SATS ag Are! ——— Se—~ SOT IT! wees NEXT STOP WOULD BEEN HALE WAY ‘CREEPER! WHERE'S NELL- eRAMMiTe? } ft Rowen HE has 1S THE SAME THAT ALL PSO TIMES aE Ag GREEPER MELTS INTO THE Mey [Anne DaMERESS. f irae BATHAN! THANK THE F MEARE NAN SEE eum four TH BRING Afi CREEPERS BEEN HERE IN coma lo T HEA 12 TAR aor7o ROP EVERYTHING BCSE! DWANTHIA FOP SRIORITY: UNDERSTAND? |Wh you. CREEPER we TEAM UF 10 6e HELLGRAM MITE BOT Suee We Bo, BE RIGHT TER AGKING FOR POLICES PROTECTION! oy TO EVEN THE ORE! THUS, OUT OF STARK NECESBITY, I THE STRANGEST Al LANGE OF ALI CAPED CRUSADER AND THE CREEPEI He BALK CONTRARY TO HILL ‘AGE BRANIGAN FOR, MUSGLING.INON THE HIJACKING RACKET! I'VE GOT A HUNCH CREEPER BETTER 86 WITH AE ONTHIS--GOOD THING| TGA HMA BareBiG NEVER SAW IM BEFORE. UUUNNE AND HE'S Too WELL PROTECTED: BY SLY LAWYERS AND CROOKED GRAFTERS FOR THE LAW TOCORRAL HIMAT FUNNY, NO BODYeUARDS PATROLLING. LooK! INS THAT JUNK YARD! Ir MusrVe JUST HAPPENED! HE MIGHT BE NEARBY! BUT Tponecer O IT WASST An BALKOn. BUT, FeLcend mane! ITS HIME pur WITHOUT Balke! He> YOUR WELL CRAMMITEE Berne THEY RE| HATEHED’ THERE HE Gora INTO THAT JUat RS IN AN GOON? “BUT HE'S TRAPPED? ~ WE'LL BUCE OPEN THATS, Cie SIMON AND GRAS Hy BEPORE He RENEWS his STRENGTH? THAT FIBERS IMPERVIOUS! DYNAMITE C OM Ti HE OFFICER ON jl IE CREEPS THE Beat SPOT eS He | Fhe SSS ior} CRBE Ms ARGND HER ) ¢THERE Was. NO OTHER Way, ae KILLED IN THE BXEITEMENT!, WHILE Baraaany scours THE NEIGH- Tie iGRHOOD,HELLO RAMMITES Gor ThAan Some Faw PAM SSNE TS FRY TO Pick UP Hie TRAIL! Leer I tOUe LATER: ME Ror RYDER, REAPPEAR!RADIO CREEPER 78 Geet HEREIME TO EXPLAIN, BELIEVE ME, THe Ty, TAKE THEYRE COMING auT-— THis RAYS WEAKENED “HE FIBRES: YOU'RE ALL FREE TO GosCia MEP EL Co SONG! NOs MELLGRAAAAAITS eS REVENGE? Barman’. OUTeH¥! Bi ARREST 13 WARN US OF HELLGRAMMITES CT wit UNIT AT YOUR TRIAL... ALTHOUGH 2_HATE 70 BE THE ONE TOHAVE TE BRING YOU INEWAKE TOO MHcH Gough on EASY Ay, WORLO, OK = ueyou MUST dia, ‘Bam. AU SCLE. IN OR a Soy? UNARMED FTHEN WE BETTER ARRES 2SSAULT AND ARMED ROBEERY! THEY PICKED Yeu To PUSH Oe TO eae, Barman’. TAN COME AND GET ane f- Dt.) ———— Wg ki a : i? UNNNHS of SANT HURT rts HE Hie. Really INWULNERABLE ARTER ALL?Look at THAT! THEY RE RETREATIN, WE BEAT IEM RRRRRIGMT! iY BIZARRE, UNBELIEVABLE THREAT? CAN CARL BORK BUILD UPON HIS MySTERIOUS INVULNER ABILITY 4 MENACE SO GREAT AS TOIMPERIL A WHOLE CITY?ig do ade per ae ea ri Pre Tia pate} Pyar are PTS I rae re Peter CMe [an uitimatum reom seldom Boake Hee CALLING An “ACTION “STR wiTrins Ze Meus ewe Cont, GOGH | ect CERTAIN DEMANDS: Pers AAG INE [7 “ACTION STRIKE! Gt Tiasig ANOTHER SLACK ABIL OER WHOLE CITY? uves AND PROPERTY/ TD NEED AN ARMY To. CONTAIN THE HUMAN GARBAGE BORK Has STIRREG UP-—! SHORTLY, IM A vg JNVELNERAS BORK Ae TS 7 Ak fe ieorive SAIN! SOMEWMERE quar MEANS TEESE in OTHE WwoRQs, We NEES; oie PeaeH ! WE Travels FLL Oo wy BES DUG Buceys NELeann!