Batman: The Golden Age #3
In "Twenty-Four Hours to Live!", Batman and Dick Grayson dive into a maritime mystery when a mysterious white whale keeps sinking ships—prompting Bruce Wayne, as a company stockholder, to team up with Captain Burly on a hunt. But as the clock ticks down, Batman uncovers a shocking truth: the whale is no beast, but a disguised submarine, and the real enemy lies in the shadows of the insurance firm itself. Written by Bill Finger and illustrated by Bob Kane, with inks by Jerry Robinson and George Roussos, and a cover by Michael Cho.
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As a stockholder in the Seven Seas Insurance Company, a firm that has had to pay out huge payoffs for ships sunk by a large white whale, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson decide to investigate the activities of one Captain Burly, who agrees to hunt down and destroy the whale. But Batman discovers that the whale is actually a submarine and the secretary of the insurance company the culprit.
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