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CATALOG RECORD

Detective Comics #97

DC · Series began 1937 · March 1945

Dates

Cover date
March 1945
On sale
January 22, 1945
Pages
52

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Dick Sprang, Jefferson Machamer, Howard Sherman, Lit-Win, Jack Farr, George Roussos, Reamer Kellerinks: Dick Sprang, Jerry Robinson, Jefferson Machamer, Howard Sherman, Lit-Win, Jack Farr, George Roussos, Reamer Kellerscript: Joseph Greene, Lit-Win, Eddie Bell, Jack Farrletters: Dick Sprang, Jack Farr, George Roussoscolors: George Roussos

Stories

  • The Secret of the Switch! · 12 pages

    The Batman tracks down the unusual safe that holds the loot taken years before by the Slasher's mob. With the Slasher supposedly dead, the villain has left behind a note leading the Caped Crusaders to that safe: a safe having 7 switches, only one of which opens the safe; the rest are connected to a bomb!

  • Call of Death! · 6.67 pages
  • Too Much for Granted · 2 pages
  • Fido the Gabber · "Three-Ring" Binks · 4 pages
  • Doubling in Danger! · 6 pages
  • Tom Edison · Billy Brand · 1 pages
  • He Swings through the Air! · 11 pages

Reprinted in

Special Edition, Detective Comics (1945), Batman Archives (1990), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2015)

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

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).

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