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Series: Batman Annual

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Publisher: DC

Title: Batman Annual
Issue: 5
Page Count: 84
Publish Date: Summer 1963
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Contributors: Editor: Jack Schiff

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Story Title: The Strange Lives of Batman and Robin - cover
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]


Story Title: Table of Contents - table of contents
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: The Power That Doomed Batman - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:11.67
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; "Big Joe" Foster; Professor Blake
Synopsis:Batman takes up a plane on an experimental flight, and, after crossing through the tail of a comet, finds himself glowing strangely and endowed with superpowers. The Dynamic Duo must then race against the clock to find a cure before the glow dies away...along with Batman's life!


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Batman
Pages:0.33


Story Title: The Merman Batman - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:8
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman; Robin; Carl Smarte (first appearance, villain); Vince Kenton
Synopsis:While chasing down a wanted criminal, Batman is struck by lightning and falls into the harbor. When he rises out of the water, he discovers that he cannot breathe air and has literally become a human fish.


Story Title: Rip Van Batman - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:7.67
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman; Robin [also as Batman 2]; Robin 2 [unknown secret identity]
Synopsis:Looking for criminal Al Hackett, Batman enters a greenhouse with exotic flowers, however, after succumbing to the strange floral vapors, he passes out. On awakening, he finds himself in the future, but he has aged into an old man and discovers that Dick Grayson is now Batman, having taken on a new junior partner.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Detective Comics
Pages:0.33


Story Title: The Zebra Batman - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:11.67
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; the Zebra-Man (first appearance, villain)
Synopsis:An insidious criminal discovers a way to charge his body like a magnet to commit crimes, but Batman, in trying to stop him, accidentally becomes charged as well, making the villain's capture difficult.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:World's Finest Comics
Pages:0.33


Story Title: The Grown-Up Boy Wonder - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:8
Pencils:Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane] (ghost)
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson; also as Owlman]; The Daredevils (first appearance, villains)
Synopsis:While examining a lead-lined box Superman had brought back from outer space, Dick accidentally touches a release, emitting a gas that causes him to grow bodily into manhood, thus forcing him to give up his Robin persona and to adopt a different crime fighting ID: The Owlman.


Story Title: The Bewitched Batman - comic story
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters:Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Synopsis:While in England attending a convention, Batman stumbles into an ancient cave's "booby trap" set up years before by a sorcerer named Fangan. Robin appeals to Superman for help, as Batman believes that if he doesn't carry out Fangan's commands, he will perish.


Story Title: The Phantom Batman - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:8
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon
Synopsis:Batman inexplicably is affected by an explosion in an experimental electronics laboratory that reverses the atoms in his body.


Story Title: The Giant Batman - comic story
Features:Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Alfred; Doctor Greggson; Jay Vanney (villain)
Synopsis:Batman and Robin are invited to Doctor Greggson's lab to witness two new inventions: the Maximizer and the Minimizer. Unfortunately, the Maximizer plays on the Caped Crusader, who begins to grow uncontrollably, and finds he must leave Gotham City for the people's protection, allowing crime to seemingly run rampant.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Features:Giant Superman Annual; Giant Lois Lane Annual
Pages:1


Story Title: A Collector's Item! - cover reprint (on interior page)
Pages:1


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