Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Batman Vol. 3 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
On Sale Date: July 2, 2008 Direct Market Date July 2, 2008
Source: Previews, #234

Direct Market Date July 2, 2008
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 528
Editor: Bob Joy

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Spark-Spangled See-Through Man"
Pages: 23

Feature(s):
Batman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Sheldon Moldoff
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Batman #195 (1967)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #367; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #169)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Teen Titans #11; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #169)
• Commissioner Gordon (behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Detective Comics #367; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #74)

Villain(s)

• Ned Creegan (a thief; no further appearances)
• Charley Rivets (a fence; no further appearances)
• Nevil Logan (a scientist; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Thief Ned Creegan robs the laboratory of scientist Nevil Logan. He steals specials gems which Logan had been using in radiation experiments. Creegan takes the jewels to a nearby fence to sell them when Batman and Robin arrive. During the fight with the Dynamic Duo Ned is transformed into a skeletal figure possessing an electrical touch. The electrical charge is able to stun Batman and allow him to escape.

Ned returns to the lab where Logan explains that Ned was exposed to radiation. He blackmails Ned into helping with his experiments, then gives him a pill that will temporarily cure the skeletal effect. Logan warns that every second Ned spends in that form will cost him a day of his life.

Ned then returns to crime. When in trouble he reverts to the skeletal form and shocks his attempts pursuers. Batman and Robin use electrically charged gloves to battle him and are led back to Logan's laboratory. Logan tries to attack them with skeletal animals, but the Dynamic Duo prevails. Creegan and Logan are then both sent to prison.