Cover: Carmine Infantino & Joe Giella

Detective Comics #339

May 1965 · DC · 0.12 USD

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“Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb!”

In "Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb!", a desperate scientist’s experiment goes awry when his mind-altering ray accidentally transfers intelligence to a gorilla, turning the beast into a criminal mastermind. Batman must confront the animal-powered threat, now wielding the scientist’s powers—and a deadly bomb that threatens to detonate if he’s defeated. Written by Gardner Fox and brought to life with dynamic art by Carmine Infantino and inks by Joe Giella, this 1965 classic showcases a uniquely twisted twist on the Caped Crusader’s rogues’ gallery, with a cover by Infantino and Giella that captures the chaos in bold, striking detail.

writer Gardner Fox · artist Carmine Infantino · inker Joe Giella · letterer Gaspar Saladino · cover Carmine Infantino, Joe Giella

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Full credits

writer Gardner Fox

artist Carmine Infantino

inker Joe Giella

letterer Gaspar Saladino

cover pencils Carmine Infantino

cover inks Joe Giella

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Walter Hewitt, a loner scientist, develops a ray that gives him the abilities of animals. Unfortunately something goes wrong and a gorilla gets his intelligence and forces him to commit crimes. Batman battles the gorilla but it uses the ray to get Batman's abilities. The gorilla makes a bomb that will go off if he is defeated but Batman figures out how to stop the bomb from exploding.

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