Detective Comics #131 (1948) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Underworld Surgeon	cover	1	pencils: Bob Kane; inks: Charles Paris; letters: Ira Schnapp	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Trigger Joe Travers
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	Comiquiz	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	The Underworld Surgeon!	comic story	13	script: Don C. Cameron; pencils: Bob Kane; inks: Charles Paris	Batman [Bruce Wayne; also as Patch Peters]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Steve Travers (plastic surgeon); Ann (Steve's sweetheart); Dugan (Policeman, death); "Trigger" Joe Travers (villain, Steve's brother, death); Big Mike Roper (villain); "Scarface" Dan Nolan [aka Dan Newell] (villain); Smoky (villain)
5	The Case of the Candy Clues!	comic story	6	pencils: Howard Sherman; inks: Howard Sherman	Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
8	Polly Wants to Crack a Safe!	comic story	6	pencils: Lee Harris; inks: Lee Harris	Air Wave [Larry Jordan]
10	Local Color	text story	1.5	script: Tom Neill
12	-	comic story	1	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff	Jerry the Jitterbug
16	A Murder Rap for Brooklyn!	comic story	12	pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Steve Brodie	The Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn [Dan Turpin]; Andre Chavard; Jan Haasan; Tex]
17	Mr. District Attorney	promo (ad from the publisher)	1

Plus 9.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 11 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Batman Archives #6 ISBN 1-4012-0409-0	2005	On eBay ›
Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus #5 ISBN 978-1-4012-7870-0	2018	On eBay ›

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