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Detective Comics #339
Cover ACGC Census
50
Total Graded
1
9.8 NM/MT
4
8.0 VF
Reprinted 8x
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.
Cover Date
May 1, 1965
On Sale Date
March 25, 1965
Pages
36
Cover Price
$0.12
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Editor
Julius Schwartz
Credits
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Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Walter Hewitt (first appearance); Karmak the Gorilla (first appearance, villain)
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