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Detective Comics, #316

Published: June 1963

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Detective Comics #316

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Issue Contents:
Double Batman vs. Dr. Double X!
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • Dr. Double X
Credits
Not Wanted: High School Dropouts!
Story 1 1 page advocacy
Credits
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Double Batman vs. Double X
Story 2 13 pages superhero
Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • Dr. Double X
  • Vicki Vale
Credits
Story Notes

Writer credit from Martin O'Hearn at http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/.

Try a Tongue Teaser!
Story 3 0 pages
The Swing Is to DC!
Story 4 1 page
Story 5 1 page
Story 6 1 page
The Bandits with Super-Powers
Story 7 12 pages superhero
Storyline

Manhunter has to face three super-powered crooks and he's lost his own powers! But when Diane exposes herself to the same meteor that she also gets super powers.

Characters
  • Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz
  • John Jones]
  • Zook
  • Captain Harding
  • Diane Meade
  • Inspector Dulac
Credits
Story Notes

Script credit provided by Bob Hughes.

Story 8 1 page humor

"No, not there, Spots!"

Storyline

Muncie, IN has an old law forbidding carrying fishing tackle in a cemetery. Chard, England passed a law permitting members to eat sandwiches during meetings. Boston, MA introduce a bill proposing before a convicted man is imprisoned he spend the first day in stocks. Green Bay, WI a person can be fined for each drop of oil dripped from his auto to the pavement.

Credits
Story Notes

Four individual cartoon panels on strange laws. On the page immediately following page 6 of the previous story sequence.

Great Masterpieces
Story 9 0 pages
Story Notes

On the page immediately following page 6 of the previous story sequence.

Story 10 1 page
Story Notes

On the page immediately following the two previous sequences.

Story 11 1 page
Story Notes

On the same page as the previous sequence.

Tell-Tale Weapons
Story 12 1 page non-fiction; crime
Story Notes

On the page immediately preceding page 7 of the previous story sequence.

Story 13 0 pages
Story 14 1 page
Story 15 1 page
Story 16 1 page

"Hi! Boys and girls..."

Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 17 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.