Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Robin the Boy Wonder Vol. 1 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2008
Approx. On Sale Date: January 9, 2008 Direct Market Date January 9, 2008
Source: Previews, Vol. 17 #10 (#226)

Direct Market Date January 9, 2008
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 512
Editor: Bob Joy

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Dig Now, Die Later"
Pages: 18

Feature(s):
Superman (of Earth-1)
Batman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Bob Haney
Penciller: Ross Andru
Inker: Michael Esposito

Reprinted From:
World's Finest Comics #195 (1970)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #194; next appearance in Action Comics #389)
• Batman (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #194; next appearance in Detective Comics #400)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #194; next appearance in Detective Comics #400)
• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #129; next appearance in Action Comics #389)

Villain(s)

• Karl Lukaz (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #194; no further appearances)
• Various mob leaders (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from World's Finest Comics #194.

Synopsis:
Superman and Batman have gone undercover to gather evidence against the mob. However, a head injury suffered by Batman causes him to believe that he really is mob leader Karl Lukaz. He exposes Superman's undercover identity to the gang and uses Kryptonite to weaken his friend. To escape the situation, Superman feigns memory loss of his own. Batman, as Lukaz, then plans to use Superman against his own friends Jimmy Olsen and Robin.

Superman lures Robin and Jimmy to a junkyard and forces them to dig their own graves. Robin makes an appeal for mercy to Batman which snaps his mind back to normal. This appears to end the threat, but the real Lukaz suddenly appears. Superman convinces him that he is still working for the criminals by killing Robin and Jimmy with his heat vision. He then hands over evidence of their deaths to Lukaz.

Superman then grabs Batman and carries him away. Then the heroes wait. Lukaz takes the evidence to his secret vault. Superman planted transmitters which lead him there. The vault contains the evidence needed to convict Lukaz and his associates. Lukaz tries to stop the heroes, but Robin and Jimmy provide a timely assist to catch the crooks. Superman didn't kill them. He swapped them out for wax figures to fool Lukaz. With the evidence in hand and the crooks apprehended, Superman and Batman have successfully shut down the mob operation.