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Detective Comics #44

DC · Series began 1937 · October 1940

Dates

Cover date
October 1940
On sale
August 30, 1940
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Bob Kane, Ed Moore, Ken Ernst, Jack Lehti, Ed Winiarski, Kenney, Don Lynch, Chad Grothkopf, Howard Sherman, Howard Purcell, Jack Burnley, Fred Harmaninks: Jerry Robinson, George Roussos, Bob Kane, Wayne Boring, Ed Moore, Ken Ernst, Jack Lehti, Ed Winiarski, Kenney, Don Lynch, Chad Grothkopf, Howard Sherman, Howard Purcell, Jack Burnley, Fred Harmanscript: Bill Finger, Jerry Siegel, Jack Lehti, Sean McDougal, Chad Grothkopfletters: George Roussos, Chad Grothkopf, Howard Sherman

Stories

  • The Land behind the Light! · 13 pages

    Batman and Robin follow Dr. Marco into his invention, which hurls them into the 4th Dimension, which is inhabited by a race of giants and a race of midgets. They discover, upon their capture, that the King of the giants intends to invade their world.

  • The Immigration Case · 6 pages
  • The Inevitable Nephew · 6 pages
  • Death of a Star · 1.8 pages
  • "The Gold Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe · 0.5 pages
  • The Isle of Vampires · 6 pages
  • The Kidnapping · 8 pages

Characters

Bruce WayneBatmanDick GraysonRobinThe Crimson AvengerLee TravisWingWing HowSlam BradleySpeed SaundersShorty MorganBart ReganLarry SteeleSteve MaloneCliff Crosby

Reprinted in

Batman Archives (1990), The Batman Chronicles (2005), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2015), Batman: The Golden Age (2016)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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