Comic Title: Showcase Presents the Elongated Man Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2006
On Sale Date: July 5, 2006 Direct Market Date July 6, 2006
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #4 (#208)

Direct Market Date July 5, 2006
Source: Usenet, New Releases List for Wednesday, July 5, 2006

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 560
Editor: Emily Ryan Lerner

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Robberies in Reverse"
Pages: 10

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Sid Greene

Reprinted From:
Detective Comics #345 (1965)

Feature Character(s)

• Elongated Man (last appearance in Detective Comics #344; next appearance in Batman #177)

Supporting Character(s)

• Sue Dibny (last appearance in Detective Comics #344; next appearance in Detective Comics #346)

Villain(s)

• Two gangs of unnamed crooks (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Doc Evans and Ed (a retired police scientist and a kleptomaniac; no further appearances)
• A gas station attendant and Judge Samuels (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
When Ralph stops for gas, the attendant tries to pay him for taking it. Curious, Ralph questions the attendant and discovers that crooks put money back into his till earlier in the day. Before Ralph can discover the cause of the reverse behavior, the crooks return. Ralph defeats them, then traces the odd behavior to a coin given to the attendant by Doc Evans, a retired police scientist. When Ralph questions him, he learns that the scientist has been experimenting with a pill to reverse criminal behavior. Radiation from the experiment must have affected the coin and caused the reversed behavior. Ralph apprehends another pair of crooks, then returns the coin to the professor.