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Issue: Detective Comics #190
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Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 10/29/1952
Volume: none
Pages: 44
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint; glossy
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Assets1
 
 
How to Be the Batman!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
superhero
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Novelty Mart
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside front cover.
How to Be the Batman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Batman [Bruce Wayne] (origin re-cap); Robin [Dick Grayson] (origin re-cap); Commissioner James Gordon; Thomas Wayne (Bruce's father, flashback, death); Martha Wayne (Bruce's mother, flashback, death); Joe Chill (villain, flashback); Dr. Sampson (villain); Dr. Evarts; Walter Nelson
A criminal psychologist named Dr. Sampson uses an amnesia gas on Batman, blotting out his memory of who he is, and Robin desperately tries everything in his power to restore it before Sampson's mob rules Gotham City.
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FlagBatman Annual #1 published January 1961
as How to Be the Batman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagGiant Batman Annual #1 Replica Edition #[nn] published August 1999
as How to Be the Batman! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagDC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals #1 published June 2009
as How to Be the Batman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
12
Pencil credits verified by Schwartz.
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
childrens
Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum
Whoopee! This is the real wild west!
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Miscellaneous
0.5
Editorial Advisory Board

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Miscellaneous
0.5
Includes a plug for The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Superman Shows How UNICEF Spells Help for the Children of the World!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Superman
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Miscellaneous
1
The Man with the Life Ray

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
mystery
Roy Raymond
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Miscellaneous
5.67
[untitled]

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typeset
Subject Matter
Tootsie Roll
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Miscellaneous
0.33
Now More Than Ever

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
The Adventures of Bob Hope
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Miscellaneous
1
Robotman's Robot!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Robotman
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Miscellaneous
5.5
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Smith Brothers Cough Drops
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Miscellaneous
0.5
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Fire Sale
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Miscellaneous
1
Whistling Murder

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
crime
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Yippee! Remember that contest I entered last month?
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Miscellaneous
1
Mission with the Mounties!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
western
Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman
Pow-Wow Smith
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Miscellaneous
7.67
[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Wildroot Cream-Oil
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Miscellaneous
0.33
Draw Me!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Art Instruction, Inc.
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Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
Daisy Air Rifles
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Miscellaneous
1
Inside back cover.
[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Thom McAn
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Miscellaneous
1
Back cover.

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