Here's a fun little romp from Denny O'Neil, Irv Novick & Dick Giordano, with about as much depth as a flatfish omelette, but is all the more fun for that.
We're a long, long way from current 'I'm the Godammned Batman' here, as The Dynamic Duo actually have ( gasp cough splutter ) FUN in this story.
I mean, let's face it, how much of a threat is The Penguin anyway.
Robin, as you'll see, was off at college at this time, and this really feels like a 'gang back together' piece, or a weekend at home for the Teen Wonder at least. I wonder if he brought his washing home for Alfred to do?
I actually read this tale first in the above UK Xmas annual, and as we never got a single Neal Adams Batman in our town back then, had no idea who Talia was, or why Bats was so het up about her.
She did look a bit like Caroline Munro in The Golden Voyage Of Sinbad tho', so I liked her instantly.
Meanwhile, in the kind of Arabian country that only exists in DC comics, The Penguin is up to one of his slightly unfeasible plans...
