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Issue: Batman #233
Publication Date: July 1971
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Issues: #233 of 715 Issues (1343 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/11/1971
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Also designated on cover as Giant (DC, 1969 series) #G-85 and as G-85 on indicia page.

On sale date from previous issue, Batman (DC, 1940 series) #232 (June 1971), and the publication date reported to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 25, Part 2, Periodicals, January-December 1971. Copyright registration number B671409.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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The Crime of Bruce Wayne!; The Unmasking of Bruce Wayne!; Who is the Other Bruce Wayne?; The Murder of Bruce Wayne!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Aunt Agatha
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: N-283
Disclose Notes: Cover credits confirmed in the letter column of Batman #238.
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[untitled]

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: N-305
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The Death Cheaters of Gotham City!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; unnamed wife of Hack Dawes; unnamed wife of Tom Weaver; The Death-Cheaters Club [John Hedges Grant (sportsman, death); Jeff Sievers (villain, accountant, faked death); Hack Dawes (truck driver); Tom Weaver (writer); Stanley Duff (banker); Jim Sawyer (stevedore); Gregory Orrick (actor); Bruce Wayne (socialite)]; Little Dougy (villain); Joey the Rod (villain)
First Line: It is said that all men who cheat are...
Synopsis: Bruce Wayne becomes a member of the strange "Death Cheaters Club," but a wanted criminal, who fits the qualifications for membership, is denied the same...and vows vengeance against all the members!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagBatman #72 published August 1952
was The Death-Cheaters of Gotham City! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Job Number: N-298
Disclose Notes: Pencils credit verified by Mooney.
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The Other Bruce Wayne

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Bruce N. Wayne (distant cousin of Bruce); Varrel (villain)
First Line: Batman... that's my cousin -- Bruce Wayne!
Synopsis: Commissioner Gordon has a surprise for Bruce: a relative of his from the coast who decides to teach Bruce how to be a great detective!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagBatman #111 published October 1957
was The Other Bruce Wayne [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: N-289
Disclose Notes: Inks credit verified by Paris.
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The Murder of Bruce Wayne!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Board of Trustees of the International Chemical Company [Holmes Caffrey (chairman); Donald Penn; Bruce Wayne; John Keith-Dudley; Roger J. Keep (villain)]; Stagg (villain, Keep's bodyguard); Rogle (villain, Keep's bodyguard); Detective Kelly
Synopsis: A member of the International Chemical Company's Board of Trustees decides that the other members are trying to defraud the stockholders, so derives a plan to kill them all...including Bruce Wayne!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWorld's Finest Comics #58 published May 1952
was The Murder of Bruce Wayne! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Job Number: N-287
Disclose Notes: Pencil credit for Bob Kane verified by Lew Schwartz. Letters credit from Todd Klein via his Klein Letters blog (19 September 2016, http://kleinletters.com/Blog/ira-schnapp-in-worlds-finest-comics-part-2/). Inks credit verified by Paris.
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Bruce Wayne's Aunt Agatha!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Agatha (Bruce Wayne's aunt, introduction); The Raven and his Rotor Robbers (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: The arrival of Bruce Wayne's aunt to Wayne Manor poses a real problem for the Dynamic Duo, especially after she unmasks the Batman!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagBatman #89 published February 1955
was Bruce Wayne's Aunt Agatha! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: N-286
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The Crime of Bruce Wayne

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Batwoman [Kathy Kane]; Alfred Pennyworth; un-named prison warden; The Collector (villain, introduction); Squint Neely (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Bruce Wayne decides to go along with a scheme in which he would confess to being a wanted criminal known as the Collector in order to get vital information from a cellmate about where the crook stashed $50,000...but the plan goes horribly wrong and Wayne gets sent to death row!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagDetective Comics #249 published November 1957
was The Crime of Bruce Wayne [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Job Number: N-290
Disclose Notes: Inks credit verified by Charles Paris.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: N-304
Disclose Notes: Letters from Gary Skinner, Kurt Klingenfuss, Tom Elbode, Scott Johnson, Jerry Wilson, Gary Miller, William E. Goldsmith and Paul L. Tremblay.

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