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Issue Details

Issue #104
Published October 1945
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Jack Schiff; Whitney Ellsworth (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details - "Battle of the Billboards"

Characters Batman; Robin.
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Inks Dick Sprang
Reprinted In The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #5 (March 2001).

12 page Batman story "The Battle of the Billboards"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Edward Faraday; Fat Frank [villain]; Toby the Inchworm [villain]; Mr. Keel [villain].
Synopsis Batman turns the tables on some crooks who are using giant billboards to blackmail people.
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Inks Dick Sprang
Notes Revised synopsis and some info added by Craig Delich 5-23-09.
Reprinted In The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #5 (March 2001)

4 page Three-Ring Binks story

Characters Three-Ring Binks
Script Jack Farr
Pencils Jack Farr
Inks Jack Farr
Letters Jack Farr
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 5-23-09.

6 page Slam Bradley story "The Buzzard and the Screech"

Characters Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan.
Genre detective
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman
Notes Revised artist credits confirmed by Jerry Bails (Nov. 2005). Previously the credits had also been assigned to John Daly?

6 page Air Wave story "The Swag That Stole Itself"

Characters Air Wave [Larry Jordan]
Genre superhero
Pencils George Roussos
Inks George Roussos
Colors George Roussos
Letters George Roussos

2 page text story "Clear Sailing"

Genre adventure
Script Alton Black (signed)
Letters typeset

1 page Scuffy the Tramp filler

Characters Scuffy the Tramp
Genre gag
Pencils ? (signed as Lit-Win)
Inks ? (signed as Lit-Win)
Notes Lit-Win was the pen name of an unknown artist that Jack Burnley remembers meeting in the DC offices, but he couldn't remember the man's true name.

10 page The Boy Commandos story "The Crooked Ghost"

Characters The Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Alfy; Andre; Brooklyn; Jan].
Genre war; adventure
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve
Inks Louis Cazeneuve