Star Spangled Comics #86 (1948) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Jim Mooney; inks: Jim Mooney; letters: Ira Schnapp	Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Barton Brothers [Babyface; Slim; Moose]
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	America's Greatest Comics Characters	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	The Barton Brothers!	comic story	10	script: Bill Finger; pencils: Jim Mooney; inks: Jim Mooney; letters: Ira Schnapp	Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Commissioner James Gordon; Edward Carmine (a cabbie); the Barton Brothers [Babyface; Moose; Slim] (villains, introduction)
8	Danger- Full Speed Ahead!	comic story	9.5	pencils: Chuck Winter; inks: Chuck Winter; letters: Ira Schnapp	Captain Compass [Mark Compass]
14	Crime Goes on the Warpath!	comic story	6	script: Otto Binder; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp	The Star Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]; Merry, the Gimmick Girl [Mary Pemberton]
16	-	comic story	0.5	script: Lit-Win; pencils: Lit-Win; inks: Lit-Win
18	A Visitor to Earth	text article	1.5	script: Joe Samachson
20	-	comic story	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
22	The Black Bandit of Versailles!	comic story	7	pencils: Fred Ray; inks: Fred Ray; letters: Ira Schnapp	Tomahawk [Tom Hawk]; Dan Hunter; Grey Wolf; Duke of Flaubert

Plus 15 pages of advertisements and other matter across 17 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
The Robin Archives #2 ISBN 978-1-4012-2625-1	2010	On eBay ›
Robin, The Boy Wonder: A Celebration of 75 Years #[nn] ISBN 978-1-4012-5536-7	2015	On eBay ›

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