Comic Title: Detective Comics #371
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1968
On Sale Date: November 30, 1967 Newsstand Date November 30, 1967
Source: Direct Currents, Batman #198, Page 80

Copyright Date November 30, 1967
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1967

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.12
Page Count: 32
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "The Bellringer and the Baffling Bongs"
Pages: 8

Feature(s):
Elongated Man (of Earth-1)

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Mike Sekowsky
Inker: Sid Greene

Reprinted In:
Showcase Presents the Elongated Man Vol. 1 TPB (2006)

Feature Character(s)

• Elongated Man (last appearance in Detective Comics #370; next appearance in Detective Comics #372)

Supporting Character(s)

• Sue Dibny (last appearance in Detective Comics #370; next appearance in Detective Comics #372)

Villain(s)

• Four bank robbers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Johnny Adams (an ex-convict; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
While visiting a California mission, Ralph Dibny is puzzled by a bell that rings without a rope attached. When he investigates, Ralph finds an injured man stumbling away from the mission. Sue drives the man to the hospital, while the Elongated Man continues to look around.

Ralph soon finds a gang of bank robbers retrieving some hidden loot from the mission. The gang attempts to tie Ralph in knots, but the Elongated Man prevails. However, he is unable to solve the case of the ringing bell.

When Ralph meets up with Sue again, she has an explanation. The man they found was Johnny Adams, an ex-convict who was the former leader of the gang Ralph battled. The crooks wanted their share of the loot from Adams, but he had already turned it over to police years earlier. After his release from prison, Johnny had succeeded in business, so the loot was actually money from his own pocket. Johnny struck the bell to signal the gang, but fell off a ladder just before Ralph arrived.