Comic Title: Showcase Presents Batman Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2006
On Sale Date: August 30, 2006 Direct Market Date August 30, 2006
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #6 (#210)

Direct Market Date August 30, 2006
Source: ComicList, New Releases List for Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 552
Editor: Emily Ryan Lerner

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Deep-Freeze Menace"
Pages: 15

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Joe Giella

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #337 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Batman #170; next appearance in Justice League of America #34)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Batman #170; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #148)
• Commissioner Gordon (behind-the-scenes; last appearance in Batman #170; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #59)

Villain(s)

• Klag (a caveman; no further appearances)
• Brugg the Thief (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Azam Jah and Altomonte (a tiger hunter and a matador; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Klag, a cro-magnon caveman, falls into a cave during a confrontation with his enemy Brugg. Ice and minerals preserve Klag, until an earthquake frees him centuries later. The minerals also give Klag strange powers. The caveman leaves the cave in search of Brugg, his enemy.

Klag finds a man who resembles Brugg in the jungle. He attacks, then learns that the man is not his foe. Klag continues the search in Gotham City, where he believes Batman to be Brugg. Batman and Klag battle, until Klag unmasks the Caped Crusader. He realizes that Batman is not Brugg and continues his search elsewhere. Batman and Robin pursue the caveman and use a plastic sealant to trap him. Once Klag has been subdued, he is turned over to scientists for study.