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Detective Comics #169

DC · Series began 1937 · March 1951

Dates

Cover date
March 1951
On sale
January 24, 1951
Pages
52

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Win Mortimer, Bob Kane, Lew Sayre Schwartz, Ray Thompson, Dan Barry, Horace Elmo, Tom Cooke, Bruno Premianiletters: Ira Schnapp, Horace Elmoinks: Charles Paris, Ray Thompson, Dan Barry, Horace Elmo, Win Mortimer, Tom Cooke, Bruno Premianiscript: Horace Elmo, Jack Schiff

Stories

  • Batman -- Boss of the Big House! · 12 pages

    After Batman saves the life of an innocent condemned man on death row, the prison warden asks him to stick around as "acting Warden" until a new one is appointed. But he is puzzled as to why a prisoner that is scheduled to be released the next day attempts to break out the evening before. Batman figures that it may be connected to $250,000 missing since a robbery years before since the con occupies the same cell as the executed criminal responsible for the robbery.

  • The Man Who Could Live Under Water! · 8 pages
  • The Case of the Broken Ski! · 3.67 pages
  • Robotman, Actor! · 6 pages
  • Every Home a Theatre · 2 pages
  • The Big Pow-Wow! · 10 pages

Reprinted in

Batman (1950), 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.

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