BATMAN #196
BATMAN #196
Volume 1 · 1940-2011
Published
November 1967
Cover price
$0.12 USD
Edition
Era
Silver
UPC
BARGAIN BIN NERD Contact
Key issue
No

Creators

Writer
Gardner Fox
Penciler
Sheldon Moldoff
Inker
Joe Giella, Murphy Anderson
Letterer
Gaspar Saladino, Ira Schnapp
Cover artist
Carmine Infantino
Editor
Julius Schwartz

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Synopsis

The Psychic Super-Sleuth! As Batman and Robin patrol Gotham City in the Batmobile, they get a call on the Batphone from Commissioner Gordon. Gordon tells them to go to the Apex Gem Bazaar where a gem robbery has just happened. Gordon further tells the Dynamic Duo that although there are no clues on the scene he anticipates the case being solved very quickly. Puzzled by this claim Batman and Robin rush to the scene to find Commissioner Gordon and another man. Gordon introduces him as Petru Dubrov, a psychic detective visiting Gotham City from Hungary. Although Batman and Robin have their reservations about abandoning proven detective methods for a supposed psychic detective, they decide to go along with Petru when he begins to follow the "psychic auras" of the crooks that robbed the Bazaar.