Comic Title: Detective Comics #345
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 575 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1965
On Sale Date: September 30, 1965 Copyright Date September 30, 1965
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1965

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

Title: "Robberies in Reverse"
Pages: 10

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

Writer: Gardner F. Fox
Penciller: Carmine Infantino
Inker: Sid Greene

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

Feature Character(s)

• Elongated Man (last appearance in Detective Comics #344; next appearance in Batman #177)

Supporting Character(s)

• Sue Dibny (last appearance in Detective Comics #344; next appearance in Detective Comics #346)

Villain(s)

• Two gangs of unnamed crooks (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Doc Evans and Ed (a retired police scientist and a kleptomaniac; no further appearances)
• A gas station attendant and Judge Samuels (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
When Ralph stops for gas, the attendant tries to pay him for taking it. Curious, Ralph questions the attendant and discovers that crooks put money back into his till earlier in the day. Before Ralph can discover the cause of the reverse behavior, the crooks return. Ralph defeats them, then traces the odd behavior to a coin given to the attendant by Doc Evans, a retired police scientist. When Ralph questions him, he learns that the scientist has been experimenting with a pill to reverse criminal behavior. Radiation from the experiment must have affected the coin and caused the reversed behavior. Ralph apprehends another pair of crooks, then returns the coin to the professor.