Descrizione
BATMAN
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1968, ARNOLDO MONDADORI EDITORE
all’ interno : BATMAN E ROBIN : GLI ULTIMI PASSI DI BATMAN – BATMAN & SUPERMAN : OBIETTIVO : BATMAN ! – BATMAN & ROBIN : L’ ALTRO ROBIN – il Bat-Poster su cui incollare la vostra foto (doppia pagina centrale)
CONDIZIONI : OTTIME , L’ALBO NON PRESENTA IL TIMBRO DI COPIA ARRETRATA
La pubblicazione delle
storie di Batman da parte di Mondadori non segue rigorosamente l’ ordine
cronologico, ma è in ordine sparso, abbastanza frammentata e a random,
in una confusione caotica e poco giustificabile pur con l’ attenuante
che all’ epoca le storie non erano caratterizzate da una continuity
referenziale e vincolante ; in questo numero
troviamo :
BATMAN #206
November 1968
Cover : Irv Novick (signed)
“Batman Walks the Last Mile” (24 pages)
Credits
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Irv Novick
Inker: Joe Giella
Feature Characters
Batman (between Detective Comics #380 and 381)
Robin (last seen in Detective Comics #380; next appears in Teen Titans
#18)
Supporting Character
Commissioner Gordon (between Brave and the Bold #80 and 81)
Villains
The Planner (E. G. Never; first appearance; dies shortly after this
story)
The Cat-Crook (first appearance; dies in this story)
Chief Sittin’-In, Big Squat, Little Moose, Chomp and Stomp, and A.
N. Tenna (first and only appearance for all to date)
Other Characters
Citizens and police of Gotham City
Comments
Shortly after this story Robin joins the Teen Titans and Starfire I
(later Red Star) to battle Andre Le Blanc in Teen Titans #18.
Synopsis
A new criminal mastermind, the Planner, holds
court in a junk yard, concealed in the cab of a crane, picking up his “clients”
in their cars with an electromagnet on the crane’s arm and giving them
detailed instructions for crimes they can pull–for a fee. His latest
customers, a trio of rock musicians-cum-thieves, are tracked down and captured
by Batman and Robin. For revenge, the Planner, aka E. G. Never, crashes
a party held in Batman’s and Robin’s honor and claims to be the brains
behind the two heroes. Never challenges them to a duel: when
a big crime comes up, let Batman and Robin see if they can solve it without
him, and if they cannot, turn the case over to Never.
Since the next case turns out to be a “foolproof”
crime planned by Never, Batman and Robin fail and Never naturally succeeds.
Batman allows that there will be another round. Never gives a costumed
thief, the Cat-Crook, a plan and gives him a TV alignment tool to drop
in the robbery site. Batman and Robin pick up the “clue” and nab
A. N. Tenna, a TV repairman whose only crime is padding his bill.
Never “deduces” that the Cat-Crook is the culprit, and leaves in his car,
knowing that Batman and Robin will trail him to the junkyard where he intends
to shoot them both in “self-defense.”
But the Cat-Crook has heard Never’s voice,
deduces that he is the Planner, and, elbowing free of his guard, escapes
and cycles over to the junkyard, intending to kill his traitorous “partner.”
In the darkness, Never mistakes the Cat-Crook for Batman and shoots him.
Batman and Robin capture Never, bring him to trial, and have him conviced
of premeditated murder and other crimes. Never breaks down at the
trial, shouting out that he is Batman. And when he walks to the electric
chair some time later, he is allowed to do so–in a Batman costume.
“The Has-Been Superman”
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Synopsis
When Superman temporarily loses his powers, he adopts the secret identity of “The Nova”.
“The Second Boy Wonder”
Synopsis
Batman and Robin are returning from a battle with gangster Gorilla
Hardy and his men, during which Batman has to rescue a captive and bound
Robin. In the Batcave, Batman changes into his Bruce Wayne civilian
identity, but then “Robin” removes his mask and reveals a different face
than that of Dick Grayson’s. The “new Robin” claims to be Fred Loyd,
son of Olympic Decathlon champion Fred Loyd, trained by his father to
athletic perfection. He also claims that Robin, wounded in his
encounter with Hardy, stumbled onto his doorstep and asked him to take
his place to help Batman, giving him the Robin costume. The Bat-Signal
flashes outside and Batman is informed via radio that Gorilla Hardy has
escaped en route to prison and is hiding in an amusement park. “Freddy”
blackmails Batman into letting him come along or having his identity
revealed. The twosome nab Hardy in the house of mirrors, and then
return home, where Bruce and Alfred smilingly assure Fred that he is a
worthy replacement for Dick. Angrily, “Fred Loyd” removes his face mask
and is revealed as Robin. The two adults burst out laughing, and reveal
to the dismayed Dick that he gave himself away when he got out of the
Batmobile in a pitchdark Batcave –and went over and switched on the
light!
