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Issue Details

Issue #168
Published February 1951
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)
Notes Original cover art had Moldoff/Roussos credits on it - impossible for Moldoff(he didn't start until 1953). Revised ink credit verified by Craig Delich (Nov. 2005). One former ink credit was given to Charles Paris.

Cover Details - "The Man Behind the Red Hood"

Genre superhero
Pencils Lew Sayre Schwartz
Inks George Roussos
Notes Original cover art had Moldoff/Roussos credits on it - impossible for Moldoff(he didn't start until 1953). Revised ink credit verified by Craig Delich (Nov. 2005). One former ink credit was given to Charles Paris.

13 page Batman and Robin story "The Man Behind the Red Hood"

Characters Batman; Robin Joker (as the Red Hood, origin)
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Lew Sayre Schwartz, Win Mortimer (Robin figure on splash)
Inks George Roussos
Notes Revised ink credit by Craig Delich (Nov. 2005). Previous ink credit given to Charles Paris.
Reprinted in Batman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #73-168329; in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #213 (July-August 1969); in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-39 (October-November 1975); in Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1988 series) #nn ([December] 1988)

1 page Peg filler

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

7 page Impossible -- But True story "The Electric Thinking Cap!"

Genre detective
Pencils Dan Barry
Inks Dan Barry

6 page Robotman story "The Return of the Iron Man!"

Genre superhero
Pencils Frank Bolle
Inks Frank Bolle

Half page Quick Quiz activity

Pencils H. T. Elmo
Inks H. T. Elmo

1 page Green Arrow, Tomahawk, Shining Knight public service announcement "The World of Adventure in Books"

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

2 page text article "Your Thinking Cap"

Script William Morrison

Half page Jerry the Jitterbug filler

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

10 page Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman story "Ten Little Indians"

Genre western
Pencils Bruno Premiani
Inks Bruno Premiani