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Detective Comics#339
Cover: Carmine Infantino & Joe Giella
Detective Comics #339
“Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb!”
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.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).