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CATALOG RECORD

Detective Comics #285

DC · Series began 1937 · November 1960

Dates

Cover date
November 1960
On sale
September 27, 1960
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Sheldon Moldoff, Bernard Baily, Ruben Moreira, Henry Boltinoff, Joe Certainks: Sheldon Moldoff, Charles Paris, Bernard Baily, Ruben Moreira, Henry Boltinoff, Joe Certaletters: Ira Schnapp, Henry Boltinoffscript: Bill Finger, Jack Schiff, Jack Miller, Henry Boltinoff

Stories

  • The Mystery of the Man-Beast · 12.67 pages
  • The Good-Luck Prophet · 5.67 pages
  • Bullet in the Boathouse · 1 pages
  • The Menace of the Martian Mandrills! · 6.67 pages

    Martian Mandrills crash land on Earth and are used by crooks to commit crimes. Jones sends them back in their rocket but chooses to remain on Earth until his work is done.

Reprinted in

Five-Score Comic Monthly (1961), Showcase Presents: Martian Manhunter (2007)

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

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