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Cover of Detective Comics #159
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CATALOG RECORD

Detective Comics #159

DC · Series began 1937 · May 1950

Dates

Cover date
May 1950
On sale
March 20, 1950
Pages
52

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Win Mortimer, Bob Kane, Dan Barry, Tom Cooke, Sheldon Mayer, Henry Boltinoff, Carmine Infantino, Fred Harmanletters: Ira Schnapp, Henry Boltinoffinks: Charles Paris, Dan Barry, Tom Cooke, Henry Boltinoff, Fred Harmanscript: Jack Schiff, Henry Boltinoff, Don C. Cameron

Stories

  • Bruce Wayne -- You Are Batman! · 12 pages

    Bruce Wayne receives a special delivery letter in which the writer claims to know that he is Batman and warns him not to interfere with crimes being committed or his true identity will be revealed to the world.

  • The Case of the Human Dolls! · 8 pages
  • The Strongest Scoundrel on Earth! · 6 pages
  • Up to Your Elbows in Fun · 2 pages
  • Crime among the Cliff-Dwellers! · 10 pages

Reprinted in

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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