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CATALOG RECORD

Detective Comics #42

DC · Series began 1937 · August 1940

Dates

Cover date
August 1940
On sale
July 3, 1940
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Bob Kane, Sheldon Moldoff, Maurice Kashuba, Ed Winiarski, Jack Lehti, Fred Guardineer, Don Lynch, Russell Cole, Chad Grothkopf, Howard Sherman, Sheldon Mayerinks: Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson, Sheldon Moldoff, Maurice Kashuba, Ed Winiarski, Jack Lehti, Fred Guardineer, Don Lynch, Russell Cole, Chad Grothkopf, Howard Sherman, Sheldon Mayerscript: Bill Finger, Jerry Siegel, Ray Cummings, Jack Lehti, Russell Cole, Chad Grothkopfletters: Jerry Robinson, Fred Guardineer, Russell Cole, Chad Grothkopf, Howard Sherman

Stories

  • The Case of the Prophetic Pictures! · 13 pages

    A business man heavily in debt buys up pictures of an artist at cheap prices, then tries to increase their value by murdering those pictured in the portraits.

  • The Missing Gas Mask · 6 pages
  • The Jewelry Robberies · 6 pages
  • Eagle Eye · 1.45 pages
  • The Girl in Red · 6 pages
  • The Pyromaniac · 6 pages
  • Murder in the Seashore Inn · 6 pages
  • An Ear in the Mail · 6 pages
  • The Gem Jewelry Company · 8 pages

Characters

Bruce WayneBatmanDick GraysonRobinCommissioner James GordonThe Crimson AvengerLee TravisWingWing HowSlam BradleySpeed SaundersShorty MorganBart ReganSteve MaloneCliff CrosbyEarl of HuntingdonRed Logan

Reprinted in

Giant Batman Album (1962), Batman Archives (1990), The Batman Chronicles (2005), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2015), Batman: The Golden Age (2016)

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

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).

Summaries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); each links to its article.