Set Description:
Batman Collection from #301 to #400 in CGC 9.8 White Pages (except #319, #330: Off-White to White Pages)
Highlights:
#301 Don Rosa Collection
#302 Rocky Mountain Pedigree
#304 Rocky Mountain Pedigree (only 4 in 9.8 on census)
#318 Rocky Mountain Pedigree
#328 Rocky Mountain Pedigree
#331 Rocky Mountain Pedigree
#337 Rocky Mountain Pedigree
#339 Golden State Copy
#341 Rocky Mountain Pedigree
#342 Golden State Copy
#347 Rocky Mountain Pedigree
#348 Golden State Copy
#349 Golden State Copy
#352 Rocky Mountain Pedigree
#359 Rocky Mountain Pedigree
#361 signed by Ed Hannigan on 1/22/11
#363 Don Rosa Copy
#364 Rocky Mountain Pedigree
#366 signed by Walt Simonson on 8/29/10
#368 signed by Ed Hannigan on 1/22/11
#369 Don Rosa Copy
#372 Don Rosa Copy
#377 Golden State Copy
#383 signed sketched by Paris Collins in 6/5/16 & signed by Doug Moench on 3/11/16
#392 signed by Jan Duursema, Tom Mandrake on 01/28/2023 and Doug Moench on 06/25/2023
#396 Golden State Copy
#397 Golden State Copy
#400 signed by George Perez, Brian Bolland, Bernie Wrightson & Bill Sienkiewicz on 2/26/12
For Sale: http://comics.www.collectors-society.com/registry/comics/PeopleSetDetail.aspx?PeopleSetID=39486
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| Slot: |
Batman 301 |
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Batman 301 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0775557015
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Owner Comments
Don Rosa Collection
July, 1978
Cover Artists: Jim Aparo
Writers: David V. Reed
Pencilers: John Calnan
Inkers: Tex Blaisdell
Colourists: Jerry Serpe
Letterers: Ben Oda
Editors: E. Nelson Bridwell, Julius Schwartz
Synopsis for "The Only Man Batman Ever Killed!"
For some time, Gotham has been plagued by the rumor of an "overlord" of crime-bosses in town, whose life is guarded by a secret troop of "wire-heads." The "wire-heads" have platinum ankh-symbols secretly placed at the base of their skulls, unknown to themselves, which will program them to kill anyone remotely connected with the demise of the "overlord," should he die an unnatural death.
The rumor is revealed as fact after a man named Judson Phillips is cut down by gunfire when Batman stops a gang of crooks from stealing charity money at an auction. During an autopsy, a platinum ankh is found at the base of Phillips's skull. Batman and Commissioner Gordon concoct a plan to expose a suspected mob connection in the police when they hear of this.
Batman, disguised as the mystic Akeldema, claims to be able to kill by thought-impulses, after seeing the image of a victim's face. He demonstrates this "talent" before Gordon and his men, "killing" undercover police officers, and builds up his reputation.
Soon, criminals in the pay of underboss Luke Brant bring "Akeldema" a picture of Malcolm Millbrook, a rich realtor and the secret Gotham crime overlord, and "force" him to do his stuff. Batman defeats the gang and goes to Millbrook's townhouse, preceded by Brant, who is astonished to find Millbrook alive.
Batman is unable to stop Brant from killing Millbrook, but he takes Brant's gun and punches him out afterward. Mrs. Millbrook enters, sees her slain husband, Batman, and Brant, and accuses Batman of having allowed Brant to kill Millbrook. Batman corrects her: he says that he himself shot Millbrook to death.
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| Slot: |
Batman 302 |
| Item: |
Batman 302 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0968501004
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Owner Comments
Rocky Mountain Pedigree
August, 1978
Cover Artists: Jim Aparo
Writers: David V. Reed
Pencilers: John Calnan
Inkers: Dick Giordano
Colourists: Jerry Serpe
Letterers: Todd Klein
Editors: E. Nelson Bridwell, Julius Schwartz
Synopsis for "The Attack of the Wire-Head Killers"
Batman, having "revealed" that he is the murderer of Malcolm Millbrook and thus sparing Gotham from a gang war, has become the target of Millbrook's "wire-head killers" and has been charged with homicide by the police.
Bruce Wayne declines Dick Grayson's offer of help and visits Gordon later in secret as Batman. He reveals that Gordon's chauffeur was the secret police / mob connection, since only the chauffeur knew where Akeldema would be so that he could tip off Brant's hoods. Batman vows to continue normal patrol to give the wire-heads time to strike at him.
Soon, Batman is beset by a circus strongman (who dies of overstrain in the battle), an acrobatic team, and a "human dynamo." After apprehending the ones who survive, Batman pays a visit to Mrs. Judson Price. She tells him that her late husband, who was the first detected "wire-head", had invited carnival performers to entertain guests at a large party. There was also a disturbance at 3 A.M. that night which Price had investigated. He returned and said that nothing had happened.
Batman, obtaining a list and some photos of the performers, reasons that Millbrook had performed wire-head surgery on the carny performers that night, and gave Price the same treatment when he found them out. After initiating a police dragnet for the remaining circus performers, Batman changes to Bruce Wayne and keeps a disco date with a girl named Melanie. However, a magician, a fire-breather, and a female knife-thrower instinctively recognize Bruce Wayne as the Batman and try to kill him.
Wayne becomes Batman and, with the help of a vigilant Robin, captures the threesome. Batman is cleared of the murder rap soon afterward.
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| Slot: |
Batman 304 |
| Item: |
Batman 304 Modern |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0968501006
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Owner Comments
Rocky Mountain Pedigree
October, 1978
Cover Artists: Jim Aparo
Writers: David V. Reed
Pencilers: John Calnan
Inkers: Dick Giordano
Colourists: Jerry Serpe
Letterers: Ben Oda
Editors: E. Nelson Bridwell, Julius Schwartz
"The Amazing Secret of Dr. Dundee"
Writers: David V. Reed
Pencilers: Win Mortimer
Inkers: Frank Chiaramonte
Colourists: Jerry Serpe
Letterers: Clem Robins
Editors: E. Nelson Bridwell, Julius Schwartz
Synopsis for "To Hell With Batman... and Back!"
Diamond Jock Cafferty pays the Spook $50,000 to guarantee a safe setup of Batman for a murder attempt. The Spook obliges by luring his nemesis into a trap, knocking him out, and dosing his eyes with drops of a compound that distorts his vision and, melting, releases a sedative drug into his bloodstream. Batman is then placed in a special chamber filled with airholes, through which air pressure is forced to keep him aloft on a cushion of air. Finally, the room is filled with a pinkish mist, and illusions are projected onto it to make Batman feel as though he had died and was reincarnated as a ghost. Batman is then deposited on a pier in front of Cafferty, who shoots at him. The hero gets hit in the shoulder and falls into Gotham Bay, whose waters wipe the drug-lenses from his eyes. Batman is able to reorient himself, overhearing from beneath the pier the Spook giving Cafferty a documentary film of his shooting Batman and then slugging Cafferty, to be found by the police. Batman trails the Spook back to his hideout, defeats him and his gang, and learns what occurred to him from the Spook's videotape of the event.
Synopsis for "The Amazing Secret of Dr. Dundee"
Dr. Douglas William Dundee was the surgeon that, with Thomas Wayne's help, aided Martha Wayne in giving birth to Bruce. He remained Bruce Wayne's friend throughout his life, even after the death of Bruce's parents. One day, Bruce Wayne revealed his greatest secret to Dr. Dundee, telling him of his Batman identity, and hired him as the Batman's personal doctor. Now, while Bruce is receiving a checkup, two crooks break in to Dundee's office and, at gunpoint, force the doctor to remove a bullet from the arm of one of the two, who has blue-stained fingertips. The two hoods leave, taking some of Dundee's drugs to sell on the street. Bruce realizes that the gangster's fingers were stained blue from pool cue chalk. He tracks the hood to a local pool hall as Batman, discovers his identity, and disguises himself as Dr. Dundee. Then, taking the two crooks unawares, he kayos them both and has them picked up by the police. When Dundee protests to Batman that "his" heroic action has brought him too much publicity, Batman replies that Dundee's new "reputation" will keep other crooks from trying to rob him in the future.
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| Slot: |
Batman 306 |
| Item: |
Batman 306 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0962051010
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Owner Comments
December, 1978
Cover Artists: Jim Aparo
Writers: Gerry Conway
Pencilers: John Calnan
Inkers: Dave Hunt
The Mystery Murderer Of "Mrs. Batman"!
Writers: Bob Rozakis
Pencilers: Don Newton
Inkers: Dave Hunt
Synopsis for "Night of Siege"
The Black Spider, an ex-junkie costumed vigilante out to murder all pushers in Gotham, tries to kill big-time dope dealer Hannibal Hardwicke. Batman intervenes to save Hardwicke for his trial. After the Spider makes two tries and is beaten back, Batman takes Hardwicke to Bruce Wayne's penthouse apartment for safekeeping and settles down as the Black Spider lays siege. The Black Spider battles past Batman into the apartment, but Batman blocks him again, and learns that the Spider survived the explosion during their last encounter by staggering to a free clinic run by an old friend. The Spider is eventually felled by the sleep-gas with which Batman has flooded the apartment, having protected himself with nose-filters. Alfred reports that Hardwicke has admitted to being the Black Spider's financier, hoping to eliminate competition through the vigilante, who turned upon his "creator" in the end.
Synopsis for The Mystery Murderer Of "Mrs. Batman"!
Jeff Richter admits that the rest of his evidence revealing that Bruce Wayne is Batman is "buried" elsewhere to stop Batman interfering with his operations. Bruce switches to his Batman uniform to try to stop his antagonist, but a freezing gas in Richter's suit immobilizes Batman and Alfred, and Richter escapes. Batman later checks out Richter's fingerprints, only to learn that each finger bears the print of a different wanted criminal. But Richter's speaking voice betrays him as a professional actor, and a search of Gotham media pinpoints him and reveals his identity. Batman shadows Richter and learns that he assumes a different disguise every night to visit various slum areas. Much later, he realizes that Richter is killing slum dwellers with a plague he spreads from a sprayer in his cane, hoping to start a panic and extort money from the city. Batman confronts Richter and accidentally damages his cane, so that Richter looses the plague on himself and dies. Afterward, Batman tells Alfred that Richter's evidence of his double identity was buried in the grave of "Jane Doe." But her true identity will remain unknown.
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Batman 309 |
| Item: |
Batman 309 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0088917010
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Owner Comments
March, 1979
Cover Artists: Jim Aparo
Writers: Len Wein
Pencilers: John Calnan
Inkers: Frank McLaughlin
Featured Characters: Batman
Supporting Characters: Blockbuster
Synopsis for "Have Yourself a Deadly Little Christmas!"
Kathy Crawford, a depressed, out-of-work woman in Gotham City, is robbed of her purse by a street gang on Christmas Eve. The gang is soon totally clobbered by Blockbuster, who grabs the purse and lumbers off to find Kathy. Kathy herself, in a fit of suicidal depression, overdoses on sleeping pills and calls the police to say goodbye. Batman, delivering a gift to Commissioner Gordon, learns of the suicide attempt by listening in on a desk sergeant's conversation with Kathy. He fails to talk her out of her rash action and she terminates the call. But a tracer has been put on the call, and Batman heads out in search of Kathy Crawford.
Blockbuster bursts into Kathy's shabby apartment with her purse just as she collapses. Unsure of what to do, he carries her out into the snowy night. Batman arrives minutes later, trails the Blockbuster's huge footprints in the snow, and confronts him, mistaking his intentions towards Kathy. The Blockbuster knocks Batman out and tries to give Kathy to a street-corner Santa, but is frightened off by a police siren.
Batman and Blockbuster have a final encounter on the icebound Gotham River, but the impact of Blockbuster's huge fists hitting the ice breaks off a floe containing Kathy and sends it downriver. Blockbuster leaps to the floe and throws Kathy into Batman's arms just as the ice breaks up beneath him, plunging him into the freezing waters.
Batman gives Kathy to ambulance attendance, noting that she had not taken a fatal dose of pills. Kathy, touched that Blockbuster thought her worth saving, vows not to try suicide again. When she asks what his name was, Batman tells her to call him "the spirit of Christmas Yet-to-be!"
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Batman 310 |
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Batman 310 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0962051006
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Owner Comments
April, 1979
Cover Artists: Joe Kubert
Writers: Len Wein
Pencilers: Irv Novick
Inkers: Dick Giordano
Synopsis for "The Ghost Who Haunted Batman"
Batman encounters the Gentleman Ghost and his gang robbing the Riverside Museum, but cannot stop them from escaping with two solid gold lanterns which once hung in front of Wayne Manor. He returns to Bruce Wayne's penthouse and finds Alfred mysteriously gone. The butler fails to turn up during the next day and cannot be found, so Batman assumes a disguise and checks out Ye Pipe and Hearth, an English-style pub frequented by Alfred. One of its denizens recalls seeing Alfred leave with a "toff."
When Batman returns to the penthouse, he finds Alfred, the Ghost, and the gang stealing an antique chair. Alfred refers to the Ghost as his "master" and clubs Batman unconscious with a lamp. Awakening some time later, Batman suddenly realizes the reason for the Ghost's bizarre thefts. The Ghost is currently living in Wayne Manor, and is restoring its old effects, having heard Alfred bragging in the pub of its atmosphere and deserted condition. Alfred himself is under the Ghost's mental domination.
Batman confronts the Ghost in the manor, and the villain tosses Alfred a flintlock pistol and, as a test, tells him to shoot Batman. The butler is unable to do so, and is freed from the Ghost's spell. Batman chases the Ghost outside onto a horse-and-carriage, which is sent careening off a cliff. Batman jumps before the coach falls. Investigating the wreck, he finds only the Ghost's fallen hat in the debris, and hears ghostly laughter mocking him from afar.
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| Slot: |
Batman 311 |
| Item: |
Batman 311 Modern |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
1052905002
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Owner Comments
May, 1979
Cover Artists: José Luis García-López
Writers: Steve Englehart
Pencilers: Irv Novick
Inkers: Frank McLaughlin
Synopsis for "Dr. Phosphorus is Back!"
After the twice-rebuilt Gotham Nuclear Reactor goes critical for ten minutes, Batman investigates, finds glowing footprints at the site, and deduces that Dr. Phosphorus is back. A group of protestors has gathered to demand that the plant be shut down as a safety hazard. Phosphorus, who has made the plant his new home, thinks otherwise. Meanwhile, Batgirl defeats Killer Moth in Washington, D.C., and comes to Gotham as Congresswoman Barbara Gordon to make a speech advocating the closing of the nuclear plant and the dismantlement of the nuclear power industry. Batman meets with her after checking on Rupert "Boss" Thorne at Arkham Asylum and failing to capture Dr. Phosphorus, who threatens to "reign over all!" Batman abruptly realizes that Phosphorus intends to seed clouds with irradiated material and rain fire on Gotham City. He and Batgirl track down Phosphorus at the airport where he is trying to commandeer a small plane. Batman smashes into the plane with his Batmobile and halts it, but is dazed. Batgirl is menaced by Phosphorus, but captures him by wrapping him up in Batman's radiation-proof cape and tying it up with a Batrope. Batman revives and finds the situation well in hand.
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| Slot: |
Batman 312 |
| Item: |
Batman 312 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0962051002
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Owner Comments
June, 1979
Cover Artists: Walt Simonson
Writers: Len Wein
Pencilers: Walt Simonson
Inkers: Dick Giordano
Synopsis for "A Caper a Day Keeps the Batman at Bay!"
The Calendar Man is back in Gotham and committing one grand robbery a day for a week, with a new costume to symbolize what mythical god or planet for which the particular day of the week was named. On Monday, he dresses in a moonman outfit and steals handfuls of postage stamps cancelled by astronauts on the moon. On Tuesday, as Tiw, god of war, he robs Ulysses S. Grant's Civil War medals from a military museum. On Wednesday he robs another museum as Woden (or Odin), riding an eight-wheeled cycle to symbolize Woden's eight-legged steed Sleipnir, and uses a laser-blast lens over one eye to blast Batman's Whirly-Bat out of the sky. On Thursday, dressed as Thor, the Calendar Man steals a painting entitled The Storm King and damages Batman's inner ear with a sonic "thunder" blast. While Batman rests up, the Calendar Man spends Friday, named for the wedding-goddess Frigga, robbing a wedding reception, and steals the money from an ecology benefit on Saturday,dressed as Saturn, god of agriculture. On Sunday, a day of rest, the Calendar Man plans to take the Sun Express and escape with his loot. But Batman has anticipated his move, and captures his foe at the railroad terminal. However, on Thursday intruders broke into a defense installation, gassed the on-duty personnel unconscious, and took a binary code for America's new defense system from a computer. On Sunday night, the gang demands $22,000,000 for its return, and sends a similar offer to the Russian government. The double-cross is suited to the nature of the gang's leader, Two-Face.
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| Slot: |
Batman 314 |
| Item: |
Batman 314 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0989805010
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Owner Comments
August, 1979
Cover Artists: José Luis García-López
Writers: Len Wein
Pencilers: Irv Novick
Inkers: Frank McLaughlin
Synopsis for "Once Beaten, Twice Sly!"
Batman and King Faraday trail Two-Face to New Orleans during Mardi Gras. The double-faced dastard himself is admitting two men, one American and one Russian, into his hideout aboard a restored paddle-wheeler to negotiate for the binary defense code. He tells them to return later, with $22,000,000 apiece, and then he will decide who gets the code by flipping his coin. After the men leave, Batman and Faraday break in, but are trapped by laser defenses as Two-Face escapes. Batman makes a fire with a phosphorus capsule, and restaraunt attendants break in to extinguish the blaze and free them. Tipped off by Two-Face's doodle of a crown on wheels, Batman deduces that their foe will hold court on a float in the Mardi Gras parade. Two-Face does so, receiving his two bidders, taking their $44,000,000, and flipping his coin--which he catches on edge. He activates jets in his chair and escapes to a blimp advertising Double Chew Gum. Batman and Faraday see him and manage to clamber aboard the blimp. Two-Face is about to stamp Batman's hands while the hero hangs from a hatch edge, but Batman insists he flip his coin first. Two-Face complies just as Faraday enters through a service hatch, fires, hits the spinning coin and knocks it through the hatch. Two-Face leaps after the coin, falls out of the blimp, and is lost to sight. Batman regrets Two-Face's loss, but tells Faraday that Two-Face took the code to the bottom of the lake with him, so Faraday should be happy. Faraday replies that he gave up the right to be happy when he took his job.
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| Slot: |
Batman 315 |
| Item: |
Batman 315 Universal |
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CGC |
| Cert #: |
0088920001
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Owner Comments
September, 1979
Cover Artists: Dick Giordano
Writers: Len Wein
Pencilers: Irv Novick
Inkers: Frank McLaughlin
Synopsis for "Danger on the Wing!"
Batman captures a gang of crooks in Gotham City Hall, but not before one of them makes a kite of some blueprints and flies it to the waiting Kite-Man. Lucius Fox is contacted by Karlyle Krugerrand, right-hand man to the powerful Gregorian Falstaff, who wishes to make a deal with Fox. Fox returns to work to find Bruce Wayne in conference with City Commissioner Arthur Reeves and others, discussing the decision of Trans-Atlantic Airways to leave Gotham. The decision, which is final, will cost many Gothamites their jobs, and is the doing of majority stockholder Falstaff. Fox keeps his counsel to himself. Later, Bruce Wayne finds Selina Kyle less than happy with his earlier decision to have a security check run on her. At noon, three kites explode in a fireworks display, enabling Kite-Man's gang to enter the Trans-Atlantic building disguised as workmen. When a helicopter carrying the final payroll of the airline lands on the building that night, several box-kites on the roof spray the guards with knockout gas and the gang and Kite-Man emerge to snatch the payroll. But Batman has deduced Kite-Man's plan, and uses his own bat-glider to crash into Kite-Man's escape kite, landing them both safely in the street with a parachute. He then delivers Kite-Man to Commissioner Gordon and the police.
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| Slot: |
Batman 316 |
| Item: |
Batman 316 Modern |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0978569005
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Owner Comments
October, 1979
Cover Artists: Ross Andru
Writers: Len Wein
Pencilers: Irv Novick
Inkers: Frank McLaughlin
Synopsis for "Color Me Deadly!"
Crazy-Quilt, having finally been released from prison, has learned a brutal truth: his sight, only useful at recognizing bright, vivid colors, will fade away permanently in a matter of months. Accordingly, he breaks into Gotham's S.T.A.R. labs, dazzling the scientists with a light display and blinding Batman and Robin with the rays from his color-helmet while he steals a laser-focusing element. Then he kidnaps Dr. Norman Dexter, a surgeon who has pioneered revolutionary techniques of optic surgery, and forces him to operate on his eyes at gunpoint, using only a local anesthetic. Crazy-Quilt had earlier hired a firebug to torch the tenth floor of the hospital, ensuring it would be deserted for his operation. But Batman and Robin realize Crazy-Quilt's plan after learning of Dexter's abduction, and fight their way to the top of the hospital past Crazy-Quilt's defensive devices. The operation is finished when they arrive, and Crazy-Quilt dons his helmet to fire brilliant color-rays at them. Robin reflects the rays back into Crazy-Quilt's eyes with a polished instrument tray. The impact proves too much for his over-sensitized optic nerves. Crazy-Quilt has been rendered totally blind.
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| Slot: |
Batman 317 |
| Item: |
Batman 317 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0988580001
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Owner Comments
November, 1979
Cover Artists: Dick Giordano
Writers: Len Wein
Pencilers: Irv Novick
Inkers: Frank McLaughlin
Synopsis for "The 1,001 Clue Caper or Why Did the Riddler Cross the Road?"
Batman and Robin, visiting Commissioner Gordon, are handed a book by Sgt. Harvey Hainer. The book is a volume of 1,001 riddles autographed by the Riddler, who is presently hijacking a poultry truck. Noting that the book came from the Gotham State Prison Library, Batman and Robin learn from the warden that convict Jake Hammer was wounded while trying to escape with the Riddler. Though Hammer is semi-conscious, Robin gets him to mutter the riddle-clue, "What's black and white and red all over? Answer is a killer!" At about the same time, the Riddler takes a garbage truck, loads it with the stolen chickens, looses the birds at the dock workers of a magazine distributor's warehouse, and loads the truck with a skid of magazines. After making up with Selina Kyle for having her investigated, Bruce Wayne becomes Batman again and consults with Robin. Robin tells Batman that the magazines the Riddler stole were intended for foreign distribution. The police, drawn by gunfire to the warehouse, found that it was a front for gun-runners. Batman, noting that Jake Hammer was convicted of gun-running, figures out the Riddler's latest scheme. The two heroes go to Gotham Harbor, where the Riddler is loading guns concealed in the magazines aboard a ship to receive payment from a foreign agent. They stop the operation and capture the Riddler and the gun-runners. Meanwhile, Lucius Fox keeps a date to meet with Bruce Wayne's financial rival, the gluttonous Gregorian Falstaff.
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| Slot: |
Batman 318 |
| Item: |
Batman 318 Modern |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0968504005
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Owner Comments
Rocky Mountain Pedigree
December, 1979
Cover Artists: José Luis García-López
Writers: Len Wein
Pencilers: Irv Novick
Inkers: Frank McLaughlin
Synopsis for "My City Burns at Both Ends -- It Will Not Last the Night!"
Batman rescues a girl from a burning tenement and notices a costumed figure atop the building. He swings back up to make contact with the villain, who introduces himself as the Firebug and shoots napalm from his fingertips to keep Batman at a distance. The Firebug thanks Batman for saving the girl and says, "That damned building has done enough killing!" By the time Batman can staunch the fire with a foam pellet, the Firebug is gone. Later, while Bruce Wayne is dancing with Selina Kyle, who suffers a strange headache, the Firebug, in his civilian identity of Joey Rigger, reviews the fate of his father, mother, and sister. All had been killed by defects in the tenement buildings they lived in. Joey himself went to Vietnam, where he was trained as a demolitions expert. He thus gained the know-how to fashion the weaponry of the Firebug, which he uses to burn down the buildings which took his family's lives. Checking with Commissioner Gordon, Batman runs down correlations on the two buildings the Firebug has torched, guesses that he is Joey Rigger, and finds from a magazine page in his deserted apartment that his next target will be the Gotham State Building. Batman confronts the Firebug there, disarming a bomb and fending off his napalm with a fireproofed costume. The battle carries them up to the observation deck, where the Firebug, in a suicidal frenzy, deactivates his costume's safety devices and lunges at Batman. The caped hero sidesteps, and the Firebug burns through the observation deck restraining fence, falling off the building. His napalm tanks explode seconds before he would have hit the pavement. Elsewhere, Lucius Fox considers Gregorian Falstaff's offer of employment, and two English crooks break into a rich man's tomb in Gotham's Eternal Gate Cemetery, looking for a buried treasure and finding the Gentleman Ghost.
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| Slot: |
Batman 319 |
| Item: |
Batman 319 Modern |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0962050003
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Owner Comments
January, 1980
Cover Artists: Joe Kubert
Writers: Len Wein
Pencilers: Irv Novick
Inkers: Bob Smith
Synopsis for "Never Give Up the Ghost!"
Batman interrupts the Gentleman Ghost and his two-man gang in the process of stealing industrial diamonds inside a darkened factory. The theft is thwarted, but the villains escape and the Ghost tells his men they will try to steal the jewels another time. Batman resumes his Bruce Wayne identity, reopens Wayne Manor, and hosts a costume ball with the attendees dressed as famous persons from the past. (Selina Kyle comes dressed as Catherine of Aragon.) Alfred notifies Bruce that an alarm Batman had left at the factory has gone off. Bruce becomes Batman to investigate. At the factory, Batman is tricked and knocked out by the Ghost. He awakens to find himself manacled to a chain by his wrists and suspended by a winch-and-pulley system over a cauldron of sulfuric acid. The Ghost activates the winch and leaves, telling Batman he has a date at a party in a mansion. Batman frees himself by using slack in the chain to swing himself away from the acid vat and breaking open the manacles on the gears of the winch. He then returns to Wayne Manor, where he captures both of the Ghost's hirelings but not the Ghost himself. The Gentleman Ghost fades into the fog, promising to return and "make Gotham City mine." Batman assures him that he'll be waiting.
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| Slot: |
Batman 323 |
| Item: |
Batman 323 Modern |
| Grade: |
CGC |
| Cert #: |
0780849011
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Owner Comments
May, 1980
Cover Artists: Dick Giordano
Writers: Len Wein
Pencilers: Irv Novick
Inkers: Bob Smith
Synopsis for "Shadow of the Cat!"
Batman attempts to arrest Selina Kyle on suspicion of robbing Riverside Museum's Egyptian urns, as the guard has been assualted by a cat-clawed crook. But Selina knows she might die in prison from her disease, and, tossing her pet cat at Batman, uses the diversion to escape. When Bruce Wayne steps into his office the next morning past his new secretary Caroline Crown, he is met by Catwoman, who asks his aid and denies that she pulled the museum robbery. Bruce asks her to turn herself in, and tries to grab her. She sprays Bruce with catnip treated to produce a sneezing fit, and Bruce finds her gone when he recovers. That night, Batman goes to the scene of the robbery and recovers a thread from the display case of the urns. The dust on the thread leads Batman to the Ajax Import and Export Warehouse, which locale Catwoman has already pried from a thug. The two meet and clash, but Catwoman accidentally trips off a poison-gas booby trap. Batman, donning a gas mask, takes them both to safety. He and Catwoman agree to stop fighting, but find themselves standing on a huge trap door which gives way to land them both on a web of adhesive-coated cables. Trapped, they finally meet the real museum thief--the Cat-Man.
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