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Long before Frankenstein became a regular part of the DC Comics Universe, Batman and Robin encountered a bizarre version of the legendary monster in the pages of Detective Comics #135, published in 1948. This unusual Golden Age Batman adventure combined time travel, scientific experiments, murder, and one of the most famous monsters in literary history.

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