Descrizione
BATMAN
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1976, EDITRICE CENISIO
All’ interno : TIM TRENCH e ECLIPSO
CONDIZIONI : BUONISSIME, L’ ALBO NON E’ DI BUSTA
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- Michael Courtney
- Chief O’Hara
- Robert Courtney (First appearance)
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Synopsis
Part 2 of 3
Per last issue, Bruce Wayne
was kidnapped by Captain Stingaree and his men to be used as bait to
catch “Batman #2.” Stingaree believes that there are secretly three
Batmen (all brothers) and has already captured one last issue (Michael).
He also believes that Bruce Wayne is secretly financing them which is
why Wayne was kidnapped. This issue begins with a dummy, dressed in
Bruce Wayne’s clothes, being dumped outside police headquarters from a
moving car. The dummy soon explodes. Batman enters Gordon’s office and
reveals he already knows why he was summoned and where to start
looking. While en route to his next destination, Batman stops two
muggings in a park while he reveals that he only feigned unconsciousness
when he was attacked by Stingaree and soon escaped. Batman returns to
the scene of his abduction and finds some mud which he surmises was left
as a clue to Wayne’s location. Since Batman is Wayne, he doesn’t need
to analyse the mud to know where it came from. En route he stops a
breaking and entering, then descends into the sewers and awaits the trap
to be sprung. The sewer tunnel collapses behind him and hundreds of
rats come charging. Batman escapes by flipping along the ceiling on
pipes until he reaches higher ground. That tunnel, however, is flushed
with high opressure water. Batman clings to the side when a scuba diver
arrives and fights Batman. Batman feigns losing conciousness so the
diver closes in, then grabs his scuba mouthpiece and gets some air.
They struggle and both pass out. The diver, Stingaree, awakens first
and drags the still unconcious Batman back to his lair, chaining him to a
wall. He realizes that Bruce Wayne is free but since he has caught
Batman #2, unmasked as Robert Courtney, he doesn’t care. Meanwhile
Bruce Wayne enters Police HQ claiming that Batman rescued him.
Notes
2nd issue of a three-part story-arc
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- Lippy Louie (dies)
- Velma Grayle
Other Characters:
- Lt. Komb
- Sadie (First appearance)
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- Twin Magnum Guns
Synopsis
Tim Trench is assigned by a beautiful woman to find a stolen ruby that turns out not to be stolen after all.
Notes
- Tim Trench appeared last in Wonder Woman #182 (unpublished in Italy).
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- Sam Taggert
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Bruce Wayne, on vacation and romancing a lady named Susan, has his
plans interrupted by the sight of a sea monster on the beach. He has a
short fight with the beast, though the monster escapes.
Alfred informs Bruce that Susan is catching the next plane to
Gotham, and Bruce decides to take it out on the monster. Batman observes
the beach from in hiding, and notes a backwards-walking man with one
peg leg. The man, a local fisherman named Sam Taggart, has a brief
scuffle with Batman, who knocks him out and is kayoed in turn by an
unseen assailant.
Batman awakens to find himself dressed as Bruce Wayne and being
arrested by the local sheriff for the murder of Sam Taggart. Alfred is
responsible for dressing Bruce in his civilian garb, after finding him
unconscious, and, being unable to revive him and noticing Taggart dead,
calling the police. But Bruce, left with his Batman boots, breaks out
tools from a heel compartment and escapes his jail cell. Later, as
Batman, he investigates a print in the cave of the sea monster, lined
with oil.
Eventually he collars the “monster”, who proves to be a man in a
monster suit, and his gang of dope smugglers who operate from a local
oil rig. Sam Taggart, who had discovered the operation, mistook Batman
for one of the smugglers. After jailing the lot of them, Batman becomes
Bruce Wayne and starts all over again with Susan, both of them back on
their home turf in Gotham.
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scientist Bruce Gordon was cut by a black diamond wielded by the
sorcerer Mophir, he became possessed by Mophir’s evil spirit. Now,
whenever he is exposed to an eclipse, Bruce Gordon becomes Eclipso — he
is, as the logo says, “Hero and Villain — in ONE MAN!”
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The
great Alex Toth illustrated several Eclipso stories, namely: “Eclipso’s
Amazing Ally” (House of Secrets #63), “Hideout On Fear Island” (HOS
#64); “The Man Who Destroyed Eclipso” (HOS #65); “The Two Faces of Doom”
(HOS #66); and “Challenge of the Split-Man” (HOS #67).
