Detective Comics #334

This December 1964 issue of Detective Comics poses a chilling scenario right on the cover: Batman steps cautiously through a doorway in response to a voice claiming to be Robin, while three guns — held by unseen assailants — are trained directly on him, with a reel-to-reel tape recorder sitting ominously in the foreground. The cover copy makes the stakes unmistakably clear, warning that someone has already stolen the Batmobile, the Batboat, a Batarang, and even Robin himself — and now Batman's very life may be next. Cover pencils by Carmine Infantino and inks by Joe Giella give the scene a clean, tense elegance, while the interior story "The Man Who Stole from Batman!" is crafted by writer Gardner Fox with art by Sheldon Moldoff and inker Joe Giella.