BATMAN (1940) #238

Batman disguises himself as the crook Drexel to infiltrate the Crime Academy. « The Origin of the Doom Patrol » (from My Greatest Adventure # 80), script by Arnold Drake (plot) and Bob Haney (script), pencils by Bruno Premiani; A mysterious man known only as the Chief calls three people who have all escaped certain doom but were left outcasts because of their experiences; He recounts their individual stories; He asks them to become the Doom Patrol, and their first mission is to defuse a bomb; The Chief informs the Doom Patrol of an alien spaceship that has landed on Earth carrying a super-weapon; General Immortus, spying on them, makes plans. « Oh Plastic Man » (from Police Comics # 14), art by Jack Cole; Woozy and Plastic Man set out to capture Eel O’Brian. « Guarding a Lion » (from Sensation Comics #57), script by John Broome, art by Joe Kubert; Sargon the Sorcerer must figure out who the mysterious person is who has been messing with the circus lion. « Danger in the Totem’s Eye! » (from Adventure # 276), script and pencils by Arthur Adler, inks by Bob Oksner; Al Pratt goes to a museum to research Indian culture but ends up tracking down some robbers…