Batman: The Dark Knight Archives #8
"Rackety-Rax Racket!" sees young Dorry Leaf, orphaned by a Pacific island earthquake, grow into a seismology expert determined to build a quake-proof observatory at Pacific Coast University. When a gang of criminals, the Looters, learn he can predict earthquakes, they scheme to exploit his knowledge for profit—putting Dorry on a collision course with danger. Win Mortimer’s art brings the story to life with crisp detail, while Dick Sprang’s classic cover captures the island’s perilous charm.
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Seeing both of his parents killed in an earthquake on a small Pacific island, Dorry Leaf becomes an expert on these phenomnia, and is offered a post at Pacific Coast University to oversee a seismographic observatory that he is determined to make quake-proof! However, crooks become interested when they discover that the Professor can predict in advance where quakes will occur, and the Looters, as they are known, hope to cash in on that knowledge.
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