Detective Comics #169 (of 1000000)
Batman -- Boss of the Big House / The Man Who Could Live Under Water / Robotman, Actor / The Big Pow-Wow
March 1st, 1951
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169
(of 881)
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Batman -- Boss of the Big House / The Man Who Could Live Under Water / Robotman, Actor / The Big Pow-Wow
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March 1st, 1951
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Unknown
- Batman -- Boss Of The Big House: (Batman) in the Batcave, Batman analyzes a photo that proves a man who is about to be executed is innocent. the phone lines are down because of a storm so the dynamic duo race to the prison in the Batmobile, making it just in time. Batman notices the warden is hiding that he is nearly blind and agrees to fill in until a replacement can be appointed. he tells an inmate named Tolmar that his parole came through and he will be released in the morning but that night Tolmar breaks out of his cell and takes a guard hostage to break into the warden's office and get into the records of executed prisoners before surrendering. the next day Tolmar gets his hand stuck in a machine and is sent to the prison hospital but it looks like the injury was deliberate. wanting to get close enough to find out what Tolmar is up to without him knowing, Batman goes undercover as an inmate and gets himself assigned to work in the hospital. he sees Tolmar washing something off the leg of his cot but is then jumped by the prison barber who figured out he was Batman because he had a graze mark on his arm where batman had been shot when Tolmar broke into the warden's office. to convince everyone he isn't Batman he stages an incident where under the influence of a drug that was being tested on him he breaks out and appears to be stopped by Batman. getting back to the hospital he finds out a death row inmate has asked to see Tolmar as his last request. Batman comes in just after Tolmar has found what he was looking for and stops him from whipping it away. turns out the executed man whose file Tolmar had checked stole $250,000 that was never recovered and Tolmar was in his old cell where he had written the state he hit the loot in. the city was on the cot in the prison hospital and the address was on the wall behind the bed in his death row cell. Tolmar hadn't wanted to be paroled because he needed more time to find the city and address.
- The Man Who Could Live Under Water: (Impossible But True) a man claims to have a medical condition that keeps him from getting oxygen from the air so he must breathe water.
- Buzzy Sores One For The Handicapped: (PSA)
- The Case Of The Broken Ski: (A Case Book Mystery)
- Robotman, Actor: (Robotman) after some crooks mistake a robot made for a play as Robotman and shoot it up the real Robotman steps in to replace it in the play.
- Every Home A Theater: (text story)
- The Big Pow-Wow: (Pow-Wow Smith)
