Batman, as a boxer in the interplanetary Olympics?
What an odd thing, but just one of many stories of Batman in space, here from Detective Comics #260 (October, 1958), with a cover by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye.
The Mystery Of The Space Olympics
In a story drawn by
Sheldon Moldoff and
Charles Paris (writer unidentified), Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson were startled awake by an alarm in the Batcave. Gearing up as Batman and Robin, the Dynamic Duo went down there to find two Venusians, Xeo and Tog, who have been watching the duo from their planet, and want to recruit them to play in their own version of the Olympics representing Earth. Batman and Robin agree, and are taken to a prepared asteroid by photonic light ray where they can compete.
Batman worries about how well he will do, but seems to have an easy time in the rocket race and meteor shoots. Then, during the boxing match against a man from Jupiter a problem arises. It is found Batman has magnetic gloves, and was cheating. The officials check his previous games, to find foul play there as well. Starting a near riot, Batman and Robin are forced to flee, aided in escape by the Plutoians. Batman and Robin don't taking hiding out well, and head back to the compound of the Venusians, where they figure out someone else must have been cheating to frame the Earthlings and Venusians. Going back in public, the Dynamic Duo are chased down by the mob, where they trick the Plutoians into revealing they were the ones behind the nefarious deeds, trying to frame the Venusians. After, Batman and Robin realize it is time they return to Earth.
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