Detective Comics #179 (1952) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Bruce Wayne, Mayor of Gotham City!	cover	1	pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp	Batman; Bruce Wayne
2	Mayor Bruce Wayne!	comic story	12	script: David Vern; pencils: Dick Sprang; inks: Charles Paris	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson] (cameo); Commissioner James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; Mayor Stokes (Mayor of Gotham City, cameo); Fielding [also as Bruce Wayne] (Mayor Stoke's secretary); Joe P. Abernathy; Deuce Chalmers (villain)
4	-	activity	0.67	script: H. T. Elmo; pencils: H. T. Elmo; inks: H. T. Elmo; letters: H. T. Elmo
6	The Luckiest Man on Earth!	comic story	5.67	pencils: Amilcar Ruben Moreira; inks: Amilcar Ruben Moreira	Roy Raymond
10	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5
11	Robotman Crusoe	comic story	5.67	pencils: Frank Bolle; inks: Frank Bolle	Robotman
14	Frontier Photographer	text article	1	letters: typeset
15	The Reforming of Little Elk	comic story	7.67	pencils: Leonard Starr; inks: Leonard Starr	Pow-Wow Smith
17	-	comic story	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff	Casey the Cop
19	-	comic story	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
21	Missouri Marathon	text story	1	letters: typeset

Plus 7.82 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 sequences, as published.

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