Detective Comics #160 (of 1000000)
The Globe-Trotter of Crime
June 1st, 1950
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160
(of 881)
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The Globe-Trotter of Crime
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June 1st, 1950
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- "THE GLOBE-TROTTER OF CRIME": (Batman) Batman and Robin are late to law enforcement convention in their honor so while they wait Gordan, a rep from Scotland Yard, and a rep from the French Surete, in turn, tells the tale of how Batman and Robin were called to London to catch a bad actor who spent fortune funding a world tour for his theater troop that sold almost no seats and napped when he was refused a loan to keep the failed company going. after evading Batman he crosses the channel to France and is finally caught atop the Eiffel tower.
- "THE CHAIR THAT TOLD THE FUTURE": (Impossible But True) interest is spreading in an oracle, an empty chair that will answer any question for $100 and seems to never be wrong. on live TV Roy accepts a challenge to prove it is a fake.
- "THE RENEGADE ROBOT": (Robotman) a recently released criminal scientist immobilizes Robotman and messes with his inner workings to make him help in his gang's crimes.
- "THEY KNOW WHO YOU ARE": (text article)
- "THE FLYING INDIANS": (Pow-Wow Smith) during world war 2 Pow-Wow was part of an all-native American flight crew called the flying Indians. the other three surviving members have started a private airport by the same name and Pow-Wow goes to visit them. after getting in traditional garb to fly back to red deer valley for a harvest ceremony the plane is hijacked by smugglers who are on the run from the cops and they are forced to fly them to South America.
