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Detective Comics#138
Cover: Win Mortimer

Detective Comics #138

Oct 1948 · National Comics Publications of Canada Ltd · 0.10 CAD
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“The Invisible Crimes!”

In "The Invisible Crimes!", the Joker turns to a real-life scientific breakthrough— an invisibility elixir—after reading about it in the paper, unleashing chaos that even Batman must confront. With Dick Sprang's dynamic art bringing the shadowy menace to life, and Bill Finger crafting a clever twist on the classic cat-and-mouse game, this 1948 tale sees Batman himself take the elixir to match the villain's new edge. Win Mortimer's striking cover captures the eerie, unseen threat lurking in the shadows.

writer Bill Finger · artist, inker Dick Sprang · cover Win Mortimer

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artist, inker Dick Sprang
cover pencils, inks Win Mortimer

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The Joker follows up an article in the newspaper about a scientist discovering a lost elixir of invisibility and becomes a real terror to Batman until the crime fighter takes some of the elixir himself.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).

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