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.