Star Spangled Comics #73 (1947) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Black Magician	cover	1	pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp	Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Black Magician
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	X Is for Unknown	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	The Black Magician!	comic story	10	script: Bill Finger; pencils: Jack Burnley; inks: Jim Mooney; letters: Ira Schnapp	Robin [Dick Grayson]; Professor Carter Nichols; The Black Magician [Count Cagliostro] (villain, introduction)
5	The Carnival Crimes	comic story	5		Penniless Palmer
7	Tops!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
8	Knightless Armor!	comic story	6	pencils: Jimmy Thompson; inks: Jimmy Thompson; letters: Jimmy Thompson	Robotman [Robert Crane; aka Paul Dennis]; Robbie the Robotdog
10	Flight of the Crooked Bee!	comic story	7	pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp	The Star-Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; S.J. Pemberton; Gloria Pemberton; Maestro Anton Bielaski; the Bee [Michael Bielaski]
11	Every Gun Is Loaded!	text story	2	script: Cliff Rhodes
12	Handy Andy	comic story	2	script: Jack Farr; pencils: Jack Farr; inks: Jack Farr; letters: Jack Farr	Handy Andy
14	The Pirates of Buffalo Bend!	comic story	10	script: Joe Samachson; pencils: Fred Ray; inks: Fred Ray; letters: Ira Schnapp	Tomahawk [Tom Hawk]; Dan Hunter; Captain Spain; George Washington (cameo)

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

Collection	Year
Limited Collectors' Edition #C-47	1976	On eBay ›
The Robin Archives #1 ISBN 1-4012-0415-5	2005	On eBay ›

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