Key
BATMAN #133
Volume 1 · 1940-2011
- Published
- August 1960
- Cover price
- $0.10 USD
- Edition
- —
- Era
- Silver
- UPC
- MURRAYC Contact
- Key issue
- Yes
Creators
- Writer
- Bill Finger
- Penciler
- Dick Sprang, Sheldon Moldoff
- Letterer
- Batman (Bruce Wayne)
- Cover artist
- Sheldon Moldoff
- Editor
- George Kashdan, Murray Boltinoff
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Synopsis
Crimes Of The Kite Man!
* 1ST APPEARANCE "KITE-MAN" (Charles CHUCK Brown)
Batman and Robin arrive at a penthouse party for a visiting Indian rajah when a mysterious box-kite begins dropping tear gas bombs on the party-goers. This serves as a well-enough diversion for Kite-Man, using his jet-kite, to steal the rajah's ruby. Although Robin manages to lasso the villain's leg, Kite-Man continues his escape. The Boy Wonder loses his grip and falls safely into a rooftop water tank.
The Dynamic Duo, well aware of Kite-Man's crime spree, drive to Gotham Bay to judge a kite-skiing contest. Nearby in Gotham Bay Prison, Kite-Man uses a giant kite to free Big Bill Collins, a notorious racketeer. Batman has Robin pilot a motorboat as he glides aloft in a ski-kite and reaches the fugitives only to knocked out by yet another trick kite. Batman is taken to the Kite-Man's lair where he invites a number of gangsters to torture the hero.
Batman wakes up in a cell and uses the room's wallpaper to form a makeshift Bat-Signal. Robin soon rescues his partner and the duo use a number of Kite-Man's gimmick kites to fell their foes. Batman captures Kite-Man as he attempts to escape