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Issue Details

Issue #80
Published December 1953-January 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 44
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details - "The Machines of Menace"

Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer (confirmed by Mortimer)
Inks Win Mortimer (confirmed by Mortimer)

9 page Batman story "The Joker's Movie Crimes!"

Characters V: The Joker
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger?
Pencils Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Inks Charles Paris (verified by Paris)

Half page Quick Quiz activity

Genre superhero
Script H. T. Elmo (signed)
Pencils H. T. Elmo (signed)
Inks H. T. Elmo (signed)

1 page Binky public service announcement "Know Your Community!"

Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Letters Ira Schnapp

9 page Batman story "Dick Grayson's Nightmare!"

Characters V: Doc, Blinky, and Moose (I)
Pencils Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Inks Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Notes actually a Robin story; Batman makes only a token appearance

1 page Casey the Cop filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

2 page filler "The Deadly Dingo"

Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy
Notes Art identification from Gene Reed, July 2009.
Reprinted in Blackhawk (DC, 1957 series) #138

2 page text story "Calling All Con Men!"

Script Jack Miller
Letters typeset

10 page Batman story "The Machines of Menace!"

Characters V: Nero Thompson, Sparky Watts (named after the Boody Rogers comic character), Ned Herzo (I for all)
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Bob Kane (Batman & Robin figures only); Lew Schwartz
Inks Charles Paris (verified by Paris)