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147May 1949
$0.10

Detective Comics #147

DC · May 1949 · on sale 1949-03-21

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Identification plate

Series
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue
#147
Publication date
May 1949
Key date
1949-05-00
On-sale date
1949-03-21
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
52

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Tiger Shark!cover1pencils: Dick Sprang; inks: Charles Paris; letters: Ira SchnappBatman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Tiger Shark [Dr. Gaige]
2Tiger Shark!comic story12pencils: Dick Sprang; inks: Charles ParisBatman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Robert "Alps" Evans (mountain climber); "Jet" Fuller (pilot); Tiger Shark [Dr. Gaige] (villain, oceanographer, introduction); Tiger Shark's gang (villains, introduction for all)
4Editorial Advisory Boardpromo (ad from the publisher)0.5letters: typeset
6When Private Eyes Cross!comic story7pencils: Howard Sherman; inks: Howard ShermanSlam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
10Robot Town, U. S. A.!comic story6script: Otto Binder; pencils: Jimmy Thompson; inks: Jimmy ThompsonRobotman [Robert Crane; aka Paul Dennis]
12Nature's Playgroundtext article2script: David Kahn
13The Fight of the Century!comic story12pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: George KleinThe Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn [Dan Turpin]; Tex; Andre Chavard]

Plus 11.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 11 sequences, as published.

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Series context

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