Detective Comics #181 (of 1000000)
The Amazing Crimes of the Human Magnet
March 1st, 1952
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181
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The Amazing Crimes of the Human Magnet
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March 1st, 1952
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- "The Team's The Thing!": (Leave It To Binky PSA)
- The Crimes of the Human Magnet: (Batman) David Wist was a jeweler known for watch repair, tries to join a gang as a safe cracker but is laughed at because apparently, his skills are useless for big bank vaults. he tries to burglarise a mansion but sets off the alarm, summoning the dynamic duo. Fleeing them, Wist hops a fence and runs into an ultra-nuclear fission lab and causes an accident that turns him into a human magnet with a positive charge on his right hand and a negative charge on his left. unable to control the power he develops anti-magnetic plastic gloves to dampen the effect. he then makes a costume and begins a crime spree as the human magnet. in the end, Batman uses mosquitos to trick Wist into putting his hands together, rendering him helpless.
- Casey the Cop: (humor strip by Henry Boltinoff)
- Roy Raymond's Perfect Double: (Impossible But True) a man who seems to be Roy's double claims to be from the fourth dimension.
- Jerry The Jitterbug: (humor strip by Henry Boltinoff)
- The Safest Safe in the World: (Robotman)
- How Forgers Are Caught - New Secrets in the Handwriting Expert's Lab Foil the Criminals: (text story)
- Peg: (humor strip by Henry Boltinoff)
- Pow-Wow Smith, Medicine Man: (Pow-Wow Smith)
