Cover: Sheldon Moldoff

Detective Comics #288

Feb 1961 · DC · 0.10 USD

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“The Menace of the Multiple Creature”

Batman and Robin face a shape-shifting terror in this February 1961 issue, as a massive red crab-like creature tears apart a steel derrick while the Dynamic Duo watches in alarm from a nearby doorway — Batman's exclamation captured right on the cover: "Great Scott, Robin! It's changed into another kind of creature — and it's smashing the derrick!" Sheldon Moldoff's cover work brings the "Multiple Creature" to vivid, unsettling life, its claws glowing as it rips through heavy machinery with ease. With a ten-cent cover price and a genuinely wild sci-fi threat, this is a fine snapshot of DC's early-'60s appetite for imaginative, larger-than-life menaces.

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writer Jack Miller · artist, inker Joe Certa · cover Sheldon Moldoff

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writer Jack Miller

artist, inker Joe Certa

cover pencils, inks Sheldon Moldoff

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Larry Loder is conned by Jed Peters into using three fake magical gadgets. The Martian Manhunter uses his powers to make the fake gadgets appear to really work.

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