However, the comic book to the top right, (cover dated June 1963), was one that I never was able to find on Kodiak Island during the early 1960's when I was growing up there. 

The only comics at the Navy Exchange or at the barber shop were ones that no one else wanted if you didn't get there early!  So I never did get to find out what happened inside that comic book even tho I knew it was coming out!  

So this week when I found the trade paperback, 'Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told', I just had to pick it up as that 1963 story is reprinted inside !!! 

For those of you not born before the advent of LCBS, (Local Comic Book Stores), you are extremely lucky to have access to either brick & mortar stores or the eBay auctions / eBay stores listings!!   It was a heck of a time trying to find the second part of continued stories sometimes back in 'the Good ol' Days'!!   It was doubly hard for Marvel Zombies as Stan Lee kept writing continued stories with ongoing subplots not realizing that spotty distribution on the newstands would create frustrated readers !!