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    Detective Comics #181

    Detective Comics » Detective Comics #181 - The Amazing Crimes of the Human Magnet released by DC Comics on March 1952.

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    The Amazing Crimes of the Human Magnet last edited by luphawk on 10/14/23 06:49PM View full history

    1. "The Team's The Thing!": (Leave It To Binky PSA)
    2. The Crimes of the Human Magnet: (Batman) David Wist was a jeweler known for watch repair, tries to join a gang as a safe cracker but is laughed at because apparently, his skills are useless for big bank vaults. he tries to burglarise a mansion but sets off the alarm, summoning the dynamic duo. Fleeing them, Wist hops a fence and runs into an ultra-nuclear fission lab and causes an accident that turns him into a human magnet with a positive charge on his right hand and a negative charge on his left. unable to control the power he develops anti-magnetic plastic gloves to dampen the effect. he then makes a costume and begins a crime spree as the human magnet. in the end, Batman uses mosquitos to trick Wist into putting his hands together, rendering him helpless.
    3. Casey the Cop: (humor strip by Henry Boltinoff)
    4. Roy Raymond's Perfect Double: (Impossible But True) a man who seems to be Roy's double claims to be from the fourth dimension.
    5. Jerry The Jitterbug: (humor strip by Henry Boltinoff)
    6. The Safest Safe in the World: (Robotman)
    7. How Forgers Are Caught - New Secrets in the Handwriting Expert's Lab Foil the Criminals: (text story)
    8. Peg: (humor strip by Henry Boltinoff)
    9. Pow-Wow Smith, Medicine Man: (Pow-Wow Smith)
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