Detective Comics #163
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Man Who Feared Metal!", a fugitive with a metallic splinter embedded in his skull—left by an explosion—finds himself trapped by a strange, magnetic affliction that makes metal his greatest danger. Written by Bill Finger and illustrated by Jim Mooney with inks by Charles Paris, this 1950 tale from Detective Comics #163 explores the eerie consequences of a single, fateful accident. The cover, by Win Mortimer, captures the tension of a man on the edge, both literally and figuratively.
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In a quirk of fate, a wanted criminal, seriously injured in an explosion, has a metallic splinter driven into his skull, which has queer magnetic properties, requiring him to stay away from anything metal.
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