Issue | #5 |
Published | Summer 1963 |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Pages | 84 |
Editing | Jack Schiff |
Notes | On Sale Date - May 23rd 1963 |
Characters | Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson] |
Genre | Superhero |
Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff; Dick Sprang |
Inks | Charles Paris; Stan Kaye |
Reprinted | From interior stories. "The Giant Batman" and "The Grown Up-Boy Wonder" illustrations reversed. |
Characters | Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; "Big Joe" Foster; Professor Blake |
Synopsis | Batman takes up a plane on an experimental flight, and, after crossing through the tail of a comet, finds himself glowing strangely and endowed with super powers. The Dynamic Duo must then race against the clock to find a cure before the glow dies away....along with Batman's life! |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Bill Finger |
Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane] |
Inks | Charles Paris |
Reprinted | from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #268 (June 1959) |
Characters | Batman; Robin; Carl Smarte (first appearance; villain); Vince Kenton |
Synopsis | While chasing down a wanted criminal, Batman is struck by lightning and falls into the harbor. When he rises out of the water, he discovers that he cannot breathe air and has literally become a human fish. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Bill Finger |
Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane] |
Inks | Charles Paris |
Reprinted | from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #118 (September 1958) |
Characters | Batman; Robin [also as Batman 2]; Robin 2 [unknown secret identity] |
Synopsis | Looking for criminal Al Hackett, Batman enters a greenhouse w/exotic flowers, however, after succumbing to the strange floral vapours, he passes out. On awakening, he finds himself in the future, but he has aged into an old man and discovers that Dick Grayson is now Batman, having taken on a new junior partner. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Bill Finger |
Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane] |
Inks | Charles Paris |
Reprinted | from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #119 (November 1958) |
Characters | Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; the Zebra-Man (first appearance; villain) |
Synopsis | An insideous criminal discovers a way to charge his body like a magnet to commit crimes, but Batman, in trying to stop him, accidently becomes charged as well, making the villain's capture difficult. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Bill Finger |
Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane] |
Inks | Charles Paris |
Reprinted | from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #275 (January 1960) |
Characters | Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson, also as Owlman]; The Daredevils (first appearance; villains) |
Synopsis | While examining a lead-lined box Superman had brought back from outer space, Dick accidently touches a release, emitting a gas that causes him to grow bodily into manhood, thus forcing him to give up his Robin personna and to adopt a different crime fighting ID - The Owlman. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Bill Finger |
Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane] |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Letters | Pat Gordon |
Reprinted | from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #107 (May 1957) |
Characters | Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson] |
Synopsis | While in England attending a convention, Batman stumbles into an ancient cave's "booby trap" set up years before by a sorcerer named Fangan. Robin appeals to Superman for help, as Batman believes that if he doesn't carry out Fangan's commands, he will perish. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Jerry Coleman |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | Sheldon Moldoff ?; Stan Kaye ? |
Reprinted | from World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #109 (May 1960) |
Characters | Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon |
Synopsis | Batman inexplicably is affected by an explosion in an experimental electronics laboratory that reverses the atoms in his body. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | Dick Sprang |
Inks | Charles Paris |
Reprinted | from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #110 (September 1957) |
Characters | Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Alfred; Doctor Greggson; Jay Vanney (villain) |
Synopsis | Batman & Robin are invited to Doctor Greggson's lab to witness two new inventions: the Maximizer and the Minimizer. Unfortunately, the Maximizer plays on the Caped Crusader, who begins to grow uncontrollably, and finds he must leave Gotham City for the people's protection, allowing crime to seemingly run rampant. |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | Dick Sprang |
Inks | Charles Paris |
Reprinted | from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #243 (May 1957) [as "Batman the Giant!"] |