#16

Synopsis

Walter Hewitt, a loner scientist, develops a ray that gives him the abilities of animals. Unfortunately, something goes wrong and a gorilla gets his intelligence and forces him to commit crimes. Batman battles the gorilla but it uses the ray to gain Batman's abilities. The gorilla makes a bomb that will go off if he is defeated but Batman figures out how to stop the bomb from exploding.

Credits

Script

Gardner Fox, E. Nelson Bridwell, Robert Kanigher, John Broome, Otto Binder

Pencils

Curt Swan, Carmine Infantino, Ross Andru, Wayne Boring

Inks

George Klein, Joe Giella, Mike Esposito, Dick Giordano, Stan Kaye

Colours

Tatjana Wood

Letters

Joe Letterese, Gaspar Saladino, John Duffy

Editing

Julius Schwartz

Assistant editor

E. Nelson Bridwell