Detective Comics #36 features the story "Batman Meets Professor Hugo Strange," marking the debut of Hugo Strange as one of Batman's earliest recurring villains. Here's a detailed summary:
The story begins with Batman witnessing a drive-by shooting. The victim, an undercover G-man, utters the cryptic words "fog" and "strange" before dying. Investigating further, Batman discovers that the victim was tracking Professor Hugo Strange, a criminal mastermind who has developed a device capable of generating a dense fog to aid in his gang's robberies.
Strange's gang uses the fog to carry out a series of bank heists, exploiting the reduced visibility to evade the police. Batman, suspecting a connection between the fog and Strange's activities, infiltrates one of the gang's operations disguised as a watchman. He successfully subdues the gang and alerts the police, but Strange sets a trap for Batman at the next target.
During the ambush, Batman is captured and taken to Strange's lair, where Strange plans to torture him. However, Batman escapes using a gas pellet to incapacitate the gang. In the final confrontation, Batman defeats Strange and rescues Henry Jenkins, an electrical engineer kidnapped by Strange to build the fog-generating device.
This issue is significant for introducing Hugo Strange, who would go on to become one of Batman's most intellectually formidable foes.
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