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Cover of Detective Comics #81
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CATALOG RECORD

Detective Comics #81

DC · Series began 1937 · November 1943

Dates

Cover date
November 1943
On sale
September 21, 1943
Pages
60

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Bob Kane, Howard Sherman, John Daly, Chuck Winter, George Roussos, Jack Kirbyinks: George Roussos, Jerry Robinson, Howard Sherman, John Daly, Chuck Winterscript: Don C. Cameron, Josette Frank, Joe Samachson, Bill Austinletters: George Roussoscolors: George Roussos

Stories

  • The Cavalier of Crime! · 12 pages

    The Cavalier hopes to become the equal of the Joker and the Penguin by stealing a child's baseball. But that baseball, signed by a famed baseball pitcher, soon leads the Caped Crusaders on a mission to prevent the theft of a sports figures collection by the Cavalier and his gang.

  • The Case of the Deceased Ham! · 8 pages
  • Wing, Reporter! · 5.67 pages
  • The Gun That Fired Twice! · 6 pages
  • Old McDonald Had a Farm! · 6 pages
  • The Time-Waster · 2 pages
  • Yankee Doodle Dynamite · 12 pages

Reprinted in

Batman Archives (1990), The Batman Chronicles (2005), The Boy Commandos by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby (2010), 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.