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Detective Comics #97

DC · Series began 1937 · March 1945

Dates

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

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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

Publisher’s description

The Batman tracks down an 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 the safe, which has seven switches, only one of which opens the door...the rest are connected to a bomb!

Reprinted in

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

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