Detective Comics #205 (1954) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Origin of the Batcave!	cover	1	pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Jeremy Coe
2	The Origin of the Bat-Cave!	comic story	12	script: Bill Finger; pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Charles Paris	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; unnamed museum curator; Professor Carter Nichols; Jeremy Coe (doubles as an Indian); a tribe of Indians (villains)
4	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	letters: typeset
5	Buzzy Says "Start the Day Off Right!"	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp	Buzzy Brown
6	The Puzzle of the Blind Artist!	comic story	6	script: Jack Miller; pencils: Amilcar Ruben Moreira; inks: Amilcar Ruben Moreira	Roy Raymond
7	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1		Hopalong Cassidy [William Boyd]
8	-	comic story	1	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff	Casey the Cop
9	Mission to Mystery!	comic story	5.67	script: Otto Binder; pencils: Joe Certa; inks: Joe Certa	Captain Compass [Mark Compass]
11	Robot Detective	text article	2	script: Jack Mason
13	The Riddle of the Doomed Magicians!	comic story	7.67	script: Bill Woolfolk; pencils: Leonard Starr; inks: Leonard Starr	Mysto
14	Superman on Television! Is Super-TV	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33		Superman [Clark Kent]

Plus 5.83 pages of advertisements and other matter across 7 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
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Batman: Secrets of the Batcave #[nn] ISBN 978-1-4012-1370-1	2007	On eBay ›
DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-2192-8	2009	On eBay ›

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