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Issue Details

Issue #5
Published Summer 1963
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 84
Editing Jack Schiff
Notes On Sale Date - May 23rd 1963

Cover Details - "The Strange Lives Of Batman and Robin"

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.

12 page Batman & Robin story "The Power that Doomed Batman"

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)

8 page Batman & Robin story "The Merman Batman"

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)

8 page Batman & Robin story "Rip Van Batman"

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)

12 page Batman & Robin story "The Zebra Batman"

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)

8 page Batman & Robin story "The Grown-Up Boy Wonder"

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)

12 page Superman; Batman & Robin story "The Bewitched Batman"

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)

8 page Batman & Robin story "The Phantom Batman"

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)

12 page Batman & Robin story "The Giant Batman"

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!"]