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Detective Comics #171

DC · Series began 1937 · May 1951

Dates

Cover date
May 1951
On sale
April 2, 1951
Pages
52

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Win Mortimer, Dick Sprang, Henry Boltinoff, Dan Barry, Ray Thompson, Horace Elmo, Tom Cooke, Bruno Premianicolors: Jack Adlerletters: Ira Schnapp, Henry Boltinoff, Horace Elmoinks: Charles Paris, Henry Boltinoff, Dan Barry, Ray Thompson, Horace Elmo, Tom Cooke, Win Mortimer, Bruno Premianiscript: Henry Boltinoff, Horace Elmo, Jack Schiff, Mason Gould

Stories

  • The Menace of the Giant Birds! · 12 pages

    Released from prison, the Penguin pledges to go straight and sets up a bird refuge, but Batman doesn't believe him. Batman and Robin follow the Penguin and stop him as he goes to a bank, a jewel importer, a metal refinery, a night club, and a curio shop, but in all cases it turns out Penguin is there not to rob, but to return items previously stolen by him. However, Batman soon discovers that the items returned are key to the Penguin's latest scheme.

  • The Amazing Mr. Planet! · 8 pages
  • The Powerless Robot! · 6 pages
  • Black and Blue! · 4 pages
  • From Table Top to Battlefield · 2 pages
  • Indian Posse! · 10 pages

Reprinted in

Superboy (1949), Superboy (1949), Five-Score Comic Monthly (1958), 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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