Comic Title: Detective Comics #380
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: October 1968
On Sale Date: August 29, 1968 Copyright Date August 29, 1968
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1968

Newsstand Date August 29, 1968
Source: Newsdealer Magazine, V23 #6

Newsstand Date August 29, 1968
Source: Comic Reader, #68

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "Fortune in a Flower Pot"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Elongated Man (of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Artist: Sid Greene

Feature Character(s)

• Elongated Man (last appearance in Detective Comics #379; next appearance in Detective Comics #381)

Supporting Character(s)

• Sue Dibny (last appearance in Detective Comics #379; next appearance in Detective Comics #381)

Villain(s)

• Various unnamed hoods (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Elwin Trent (owner of some rare coins; no further appearances)
• Morgan Wilson (a metallurgist; no further appearances)
• George Garrison (a coin dealer; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Ralph and Sue Dibny witness two men planting gold coins in a flower pot. While Ralph ponders their motives, the two men are attacked by hoods. The Elongated Man stops the crooks. He then learns that the owner of the coins Elwin Trent was planting them to analyze the soil in an attempt to find more coins buried on his dead brother's estate.

Once the mystery of the planted coins is solved, Ralph believes the hoods were hired by a coin dealer who was the only other person to know about the coins. The Elongated Man tries to prove his suspicions, but his deductions were wrong. The dealer, George Garrison, is innocent. The thieves had just seen the men burying the coins and decided to steal them.