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Issue Details

Issue #C-28
Published 1974
Cover Price 1.00
Pages 72
Editing E. Nelson Bridwell

Cover Details

Characters Batman
Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Kane
Inks Bob Kane
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

1 page Batman cover reprint (on interior page)

Characters Batman
Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Kane
Inks Bob Kane
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

1 page Crime Never Pays text article "Bullets betray no less than fingerprints"

Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

6 page Batman story "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate"

Characters Bat-Man (later called Batman); Commissioner James Gordon
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Bob Kane
Inks Bob Kane
Letters Bob Kane
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

1 page Tenderfoot story "Good-night boys - now don't forget your good deeds!"

Genre gag
Script Charles Biro?
Pencils Charles Biro
Inks Charles Biro
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

6 page Speed Saunders story "The Killers of Kurdistan"

Characters Speed Saunders
Genre detective; adventure
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Fred Guardineer
Inks Fred Guardineer
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

6 page Buck Marshall story "Bullet Bluff"

Characters Buck Marshall
Genre western
Pencils Homer Fleming
Inks Homer Fleming
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

6 page Spy story "A dinner is thrown into pandemonium when…"

Genre adventure
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Joe Shuster
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

6 page Crimson Avenger story "Murder on the Oceanic Line docks"

Characters Crimson Avenger; Wing
Genre superhero
Script Jim Chambers
Pencils Jim Chambers
Inks Jim Chambers
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

2 page text story "Death on the Airwaves"

Genre detective
Script Gardner Fox (as Paul Dean)
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

6 page Bruce Nelson story "Boy! New Orleans at Mardi Gras time."

Characters Bruce Nelson
Genre detective
Script Tom Hichey
Pencils Tom Hichey
Inks Tom Hichey
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

4 page Doctor Fu Manchu story "You would be a dead man now if it were not for your friend in China,…"

Characters Doctor Fu Manchu
Genre adventure
Script Leo O'Mealia (adaption)
Pencils Leo O'Mealia
Inks Leo O'Mealia
Notes adopted from the novel by Sax Rohmer.
Reprinted from Fu Manchu (Bell Syndicate) 1931 from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

1 page Flatfoot Flannigan story "Calling all cars -- calling all cars -- bank robbery on Main and Center Streets…"

Characters Flatfoot Flannigan
Genre gag
Script Paul Gustavson?
Pencils Paul Gustavson
Inks Paul Gustavson
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

6 page Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise story "Cosmo is called to immigration headquarters."

Characters Cosmo
Genre adventure
Script Sven Elven
Pencils Sven Elven
Inks Sven Elven
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

4 page Plain Clothes Pete story "Pete, Louis the Louse is operatin' 'round here again!"

Characters Plain Clothes Pete
Genre humor
Script Russel Cole (as Alger)
Pencils Russel Cole (as Alger)
Inks Russel Cole (as Alger)
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

9 page Slam Bradley story "Out joy-riding, to relax from the tension of manhunting…"

Characters Slam Bradley
Genre detective
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Joe Shuster
Editing Vincent Sullivan
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

1 page promo (ad from the publisher)

Editing Vincent Sullivan
Notes House ads for All-American Comics #2 and Movie Comics #2.
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)

1 page Batman illustration

Characters Batman
Genre superhero