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BATMAN
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1968, ARNOLDO MONDADORI EDITORE
all’ interno : BATMAN E ROBIN : LA CASSAFORTE ESPLOSIVA – THE FLASH : INTERPOL CONTRO I SAMURAI – BATMAN & ROBIN : LA GIUNGLA A GOTHAM CITY
CONDIZIONI : BUONISSIME , L’ALBO NON PRESENTA IL TIMBRO DI COPIA ARRETRATA
La pubblicazione delle
storie di Batman da parte di Mondadori non segue rigorosamente l’ ordine
cronologico, ma è in ordine sparso, abbastanza frammentata e a random,
in una confusione caotica e poco giustificabile pur con l’ attenuante
che all’ epoca le storie non erano caratterizzate da una continuity
referenziale e vincolante ; in questo numero
troviamo :
Detective Comics No. 382
December 1968
Cover: Batman standing on roof of building while Robin and a crook
crack a safe //Irv Novick
Story: “Riddle of the Robbin’ Robin” (15 pages)
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Bob Brown
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Characters: Batman (last appearance in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA
#68; next appears in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #181), Robin (last appearance
in BATMAN #207; next appears in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #181)
Villains: Fingers, Muscle (first appearance for both; both die in this
story), the Armorer (J. Armory), the Smokescreen Mob (including Wheels,
Nails, and Nutsy), the Blowtorch Mob (first and only appearance for all)
Comment: Shortly after this story Batman and Robin team with Superman
to encounter the Orrians in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #181.
Synopsis: The Armorer, a funeral director who runs guns for mobs, eavesdrops
on them by hidden mikes in the weapons and secretly steals their loot.
But when the crooks ask him for help in setting a booby-trap, he turns
it into a deathtrap for Batman and Robin.
“The Attack of the Samuroids!”
Featured Characters:
Villains:
Synopsis
With the Flash a captive of Baron Katana’s Samuroids, Capt. Hashi has the Black Berets make a raid on Black Heron Castle.
“The Gotham City Safari”
Synopsis
Batman and Robin have been made members of the Safari Club, a group
of Gotham big-game hunters. Their host, Alec Judson, takes them on a
tour of his palatial country estate, subdivided into different areas to
simulate such locales as Africa, Mexico, and Malay, and each stocked
with appropriate wild animals. Then they begin their annual contest, to
see which of the hunters can be the first to bag one of Judson’s
animals, with a pith helmet-trophy the prize. However, the first victim
turns out to be a man–Ed Yancey. When a horseshoe watch fob is
recovered near the body, Jones identifies it as belonging to Yancey, the
English former member of their club. Judson relates how, on a safari
in Africa, an elephant stampede had begun and all of them were able to
run for safety except Markham, who had twisted his ankle. They later
had Markham doctored and returned to health, but, says Judson, Markham
swore revenge upon them for not helping him to safety. Batman and Robin
begin their search on the grounds for the killer. The dynamic duo must
contend with a charging rhino, a crocodile, and a lion net that
eventually traps Batman. A figure who appears to be Markham, after
stepping out of the way of a black panther to avoid bad luck, kayos
Robin and carries him off. After escaping with help on a lion, Batman
tracks “Markham” to a Mayan temple in “Mexico.” There he finds Robin
and Markham bound and gagged. When released, Markham explains that they
had seen Judson impersonating him, and that he has been trussed up ever
since coming to America to ask Judson for a loan. Judson reappears and
threatens to shoot them to death, but Batman bluffs him, saying that he
gave away his imposture when he avoided a black panther; Englishmen
consider it good luck to cross the path of a black cat. Claiming to
have loaded Judson’s gun with blanks, Batman tackles the startled thief
and brings him down. Judson confesses that he killed Yancey because
the latter had found he was operating an international crime-cartel,
using his hunting trips to make contacts. When Yancey blackmailed him,
Judson hit upon the idea of impersonating Markham and placing the blame
on him for Yancey’s murder. Later, after Judson is jailed, Batman
receives the Safari Club trophy for bringing in his quarry–a human
killer.
