Batman #198
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Jungle Cat-Queen!", Catwoman leads Batman and Robin into a perilous tropical jungle island after stealing a diamond shipment, only to reveal her alliance with a hidden group of diamond miners. Trapped and stripped of their gear, the Dynamic Duo are set loose in the wild, forced to flee from the ferocious cats that answer to Catwoman’s command.
In "The Web of the Spinner," Batman and Robin pursue a cunning criminal known only as the Spinner, while Batwoman investigates a mystic she suspects is behind a scam operation. Their paths collide when the mystic provides Batwoman with a crucial lead that ties directly into the Spinner’s latest scheme.
In "The Crimes of Batman!", the Joker, humiliated after Batman outsmarts a criminal using one of his own tricks, sets out to corrupt the Dark Knight by threatening to harm Robin unless Batman breaks the law. With the stakes rising, Batman faces an impossible choice: uphold his code or risk everything to save his partner.
In "The Menace of False Face," Batman uncovers a daring deception when the criminal False Face assumes the identity of wealthy uranium tycoon P.S. Smithington, using the guise to rob a Gotham City jewelry store and pin the crime on the real man. Though Batman succeeds in rescuing Smithington, the stolen jewels remain missing, leaving the mystery of their whereabouts—and False Face’s next move—still unsolved.
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↩ Reprints Batman #47 (1948), Batman #55 (1949), World's Finest Comics #61 (1952), Detective Comics #211 (1954), Batman #113 (1958), Batman #129 (1960)
Reprinted in The Inferior Five #6 (1968), Lynvingen #12/1968 (1968), Tales of the Batman: Carmine Infantino #[nn] (2014), Läderlappen #5/1968
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