Detective Comics #452
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Crackdown on the Crime Exchange," Batman faces a new kind of threat when a series of meticulously executed crimes point to a hidden network— the Crime Exchange—where criminals are hired for specific jobs. Posing as a reporter to infiltrate the operation, he’s forced to confront his own principles when asked to prove his identity by handling a gun, a test that challenges everything he stands for. Written by David V. Reed and illustrated by Ernie Chua, with inks by Mike Royer and letters by Mike Royer, this 1975 issue features a cover by Ernie Chan.
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After Batman fails to prevent a gold-coin theft and its perpetrators' escape, this proves to be the first in a wave of crimes carried out by highly specialised crooks. Realising an organisation must lie behind the crimewave, Batman embarks on a bold plan. Infiltrating the set-up - the Crime Exchange, an agency providing the right crook for the right crime - he allows himself to be captured so as to make contact with the Exchange's secret President. Claiming to be a reporter disguised as the Batman, he's given a test: pick up and fire a gun, something the REAL Batman has sworn never to do.
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