Detective Comics #116 (1946) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Robin Hood; Friar Tuck
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	L Is for Lion	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	The Rescue of Robin Hood!	comic story	12	script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Professor Carter Nichols; Robin Hood; Friar Tuck; Maid Marian; Little John; Sheriff of Nottingham (villain)
6	Short-Circuit Air Wave!	comic story	6	pencils: Lee Harris; inks: Lee Harris	Air Wave [Larry Jordan]
8	Tonic for Trouble!	comic story	6	pencils: John Daly; inks: John Daly	Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
9	Battlin' Gus	comic story	0.5	script: Phil Berube; pencils: Phil Berube; inks: Phil Berube; letters: Phil Berube	Gus
11	Nickel Tip	text story	2	script: Paul Denby
12	Three-Ring Binks	comic story	4	script: Jack Farr; pencils: Jack Farr; inks: Jack Farr; letters: Jack Farr	Three-Ring Binks
14	Ten Days in the Big House!	comic story	12	pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Steve Brodie	The Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Alfy Twidgett; Jan Haasan; Brooklyn [Dan Turpin]; Andre Chavard]
16	Tops in Comics!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

Plus 6.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 7 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Batman Archives #5 ISBN 1-56389-725-3	2001	On eBay ›
Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus #5 ISBN 978-1-4012-7870-0	2018	On eBay ›

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