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CATALOG RECORD

Detective Comics #46

DC · Series began 1937 · December 1940

Dates

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

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Bob Kane, Fred Ray, Ed Moore, Irwin Hasen, Jack Lehti, Ed Winiarski, Whitney Ellsworth, Don Lynch, Henry Boltinoff, Chad Grothkopf, Howard Sherman, Howard Purcell, Fred Harmaninks: Jerry Robinson, George Roussos, Bob Kane, Fred Ray, Ed Moore, Irwin Hasen, Jack Lehti, Ed Winiarski, Whitney Ellsworth, Don Lynch, Henry Boltinoff, Chad Grothkopf, Howard Sherman, Howard Purcell, Fred Harmanscript: Bill Finger, Jack Lehti, Dale Conroy, Henry Boltinoff, Chad Grothkopf, Jerry Siegelletters: George Roussos, Henry Boltinoff, Chad Grothkopf, Howard Sherman

Stories

  • Professor Strange's Fear Dust · 12 pages

    The Batman has to stop Professor Hugo Strange's evil plan to spray his "fear dust" all over America so that men in public office will be afraid of him, and that he can become Dictator of America!

  • Goldfish · 6 pages
  • The Case of the Circus Killer · 6 pages
  • The Ghost Plane · 6 pages
  • Joe Dekker and Hal Jensen · 6 pages
  • Not So Dummy · 1.33 pages
  • Bargain Deaths · 6 pages
  • The Wrecked Boat · 4.89 pages
  • Death and the Hockey Game · 8 pages

Characters

Bruce WayneBatmanDick GraysonRobinThe Crimson AvengerLee TravisHugo StrangeSlam 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.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).

Summaries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); each links to its article.