Detective Comics #182
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Human Puppets," Batman and Robin confront the enigmatic Maestro, a criminal mastermind who rehearses his crimes with eerie precision—using puppets to stage each heist, including lifelike replicas of the Dynamic Duo. Written by Bill Finger and illustrated by Bob Kane with inks by Charles Paris, the story unfolds with chilling suspense as the Maestro threatens to unmask Batman using his puppet show. The cover, by Win Mortimer, captures the sinister spectacle with a dramatic, shadowed stage.
In "The Human Puppets," Batman and Robin confront the enigmatic Maestro, a criminal mastermind who rehearses his schemes with eerie precision—using life-sized puppets to simulate his crimes, including one featuring Batman and Robin themselves. With a chilling promise to expose Batman’s secret identity through the very puppets he’s been forced to mimic, the Dark Knight must outthink a foe who treats justice like a performance.
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Reprinted in Stålmannen #6/1953 (1953), Batman #118 (1958), World's Finest Comics #104 (1959), Century Comic #78 (1962), MV Comix #18/1969 (1969), MV Comix #19/1969 (1969), MV Comix #4/1970 (1970), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus #8 (2020)
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