Cover: Sheldon Moldoff

Detective Comics #281

Jul 1960 · DC · 0.10 USD

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“Batman, Robot”

A courtroom drama unfolds on Sheldon Moldoff's cover as a defense attorney in a purple suit dramatically gestures toward a robot duplicate of Batman — still in full costume — displayed in an open cabinet, while Robin looks on and a judge presides from the bench. The attorney's speech balloon declares that the real Batman must be dead, since a robot has taken his place to testify against his client, setting up a wonderfully imaginative Silver Age mystery. Bill Finger's script and Bob Kane's interior art bring this robot-impostor premise to life in one of 1960's more intriguing Detective Comics outings.

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writer Bill Finger · artist, inker Bob Kane · cover Sheldon Moldoff

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writer Bill Finger

artist, inker Bob Kane

cover pencils, inks Sheldon Moldoff

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Batman is lured into a trap and supposedly dies in an explosion. Batman appears to be replaced by a robot. Although Robin pretends to believe it, he actually knows that the Caped Crusader is laying his own trap for a wanted felon.

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