Written By: Bill Finger

Cover Artists: Curt Swan, Stan Kaye & Ira Schnapp

When four convicts escape the Gotham State Penitentiary, Batman and Robin are called in to help investigate. They follow the convicts' trail and discover two scientists locked up in a nearby government atomic plant. Freed, the scientists tell the two heroes that the convicts who locked them up--Gavin, Gee-Gee, Moore, and Dalton--stole a truck containing radioactive specimens. The greater danger is that Gavin, having hid inside the specimens' container, has not only become radioactive himself, but will transfer radiation to anyone he comes in contact with if he is not treated within two or three hours.

After discovering the abandoned truck, Batman and Robin trail their quarry to Police Island, the site of next week's Police World Fair. On the island, after freeing two captive watchmen and sending them for help, the dynamic duo tell Gavin of his condition to no avail. Batman manages to trap Dalton and Moore within a model prison. Later, they disarm Gee-Gee and Gavin with a magnetic device that draws their guns away. Finally, using the air blast from a hydroplane's propeller and remote-control riot hoses, the heroes force Gavin and Gee-Gee into the basement cell of another model prison. Commissioner Gordon lands shortly after with a doctor to treat Gavin, and Batman comments upon the irony of the convicts' breaking prison just to land in another prison. Hit that follow button for more random History in comics! Love yall!