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Issue Details

Issue #144
Published February 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "The Mystery Broadcast"

Characters Batman; Robin; Kay Kyser.
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Sprang
Inks Charles Paris
Notes Pencil credit verified by Sprang. Inker credit revised & verified by Craig Delich (Jan. 2008). Inker credit previously given to Dick Sprang.
Reprinted In The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #7 (November 2007).

12 page Batman story "Kay Kyser's Mystery Broadcast"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Kay Kyser; Eddie Blinn; Big Jack Bancroft (villain).
Synopsis Big Jack Bancroft kidnaps Kay Kyser and his saxophonist [whom he resembles] in order to get on Kyser's radio show, "The College of Musical Knowledge" in order to hide from the Police. Kyser has to find a way to tip off Batman to this and invite him to his program in order to round up the crook.
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Sprang (signed as Bob Kane)(see note)
Inks Charles Paris
Notes According to Sprang, the splash page was re-arranged by DC's art department, not him, to almost replicate the cover. Info by Craig Delich (Nov. 2005). Synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-5-08.
Reprinted In The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #7 (November 2007).

1 page Jerry the Jitterbug filler

Characters Jerry
Genre teen humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

6 page Robotman story "The Human Armored Car"

Characters Robotman [Paul Dennis]
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson

7 page Slam Bradley story "The Seven Sinister Midgets"

Characters Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan.
Genre detective
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman

2 page Shorty filler

Characters Shorty
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

Half page Daffy & Doodle filler

Characters Daffy; Doodle.
Genre humor
Pencils ? (signed as Lit-Win)
Inks ? (signed as Lit-Win)
Notes Lit-Win was the pen name of an unknown artist whom Jack Burnley regularly saw at the DC offices, but he couldn't remember the man's true name.

2 page text story "The Printed Word"

Genre adventure
Letters typeset

12 page The Boy Commandos story "The Case of the Black Cat Crimes"

Characters The Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Tex; Brooklyn; Andre].
Genre war; adventure
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks George Klein?