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Issue Details

Issue #306
Published August 1962
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Jack Schiff

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff

12 page Batman and Robin story "The Wizard of 1,000 Menaces"

Characters Batman; Robin; Alfred; Ace the Bat-Hound; Lancelot Wayne; Professor Arnold Hugo (intro)
Synopsis His brain enlarged by a freak accident, Prof Hugo attacks Batman with invisibile robots.
Genre superhero
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Charles Paris
Notes Mention that Bruce's ancestor Lancelot, tried to glide using a bat wing model. All of Hugo's subsequent appearances are as a Martian Manhunter villain.

1 page Strange Laws filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page text article "They Trap the Fingerprint Forgers"

11 page John Jones Manhunter from Mars story "The Last Days of J'onn J'onzz"

Characters Martian Manhunter (John Jones, J'Onn J'Onzz);Diane Meade; Capt Harding
Synopsis A rare meteorite saps Manhunter's powers as he battles giant robot animals created by an unnamed scientist.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Miller ?
Pencils Joe Certa
Inks Joe Certa
Notes writer id by Bob Hughes 5/09
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Martian Manhunter (DC, 2007 series) #2

1 page public service announcement "Not Wanted: High School Dropouts!"

Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Letters Ira Schnapp