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Cover: Win Mortimer

Detective Comics #138

Aug 1948 · DC · 0.10 USD
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“The Invisible Crimes!”

In "The Invisible Crimes!", the Joker turns a newspaper headline about a scientist’s invisibility elixir into a real threat, slipping through Gotham’s shadows to commit daring crimes. With Dick Sprang’s dynamic art bringing the menace to life, Batman must go on the offensive—literally—by taking the elixir himself to match the Joker’s new form. Win Mortimer’s striking cover captures the eerie, unseen danger lurking in the city.

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.

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