Detective Comics #131
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Underworld Surgeon!", Steve Travers finds himself caught between loyalty and justice when his criminal brother forces him to use his medical skills to alter the faces of hardened felons—helping them vanish into the shadows. Written by Don C. Cameron and brought to life by Bob Kane’s art with Charles Paris’s inks, this 1948 tale from Detective Comics #131 delivers a gripping, morally tangled mystery. The cover by Bob Kane and Charles Paris captures the story’s eerie, high-stakes tension.
In "The Underworld Surgeon!" from Detective Comics #131, Steve Travers finds himself trapped between loyalty and justice, forced to use his surgical skills to help his criminal brother erase the faces of hardened felons—turning them into ghosts the law can't catch. Written by an unknown author and illustrated by an unknown artist, the story unfolds with a chilling blend of medical precision and moral dread.
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Reprinted in Batman Archives #6 (2005), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus #5 (2018)
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