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Issue: Batman #28
Publication Date: September 1952
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Issues: #28 of 111 Issues (174 Printings)
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Variant: 8D Cover Price
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Publisher: FlagK. G. Murray
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: K. G. Murray
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume:
Pages: 28
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: 6.0 pence GBQ 0-0-6
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Content Items: 6 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Date based on contents (originally published in April-May 1952) and ad for Superman Annual 1952.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover; Black and white interior
Dimensions: 190mm x 265mm
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing series
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What New Perils Loom for Batman When He Becomes a Prison Chief

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Retitled from the original, presumably because "big house" is American slang.
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The World's Greatest Adventure Character

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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Super-Comics and the 1952 Superman Annual.
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Batman -- Boss of the Big House!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Batman With Robin the Boy Wonder
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne][also as Walter "Slug" Braden]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Glen Powers; Prison Warden Downs; Steve (prison guard); Dr. Fleming (prison doctor); Dead Shot [Floyd Lawton] (villain, cameo); "The Black Diamond" (villain, cameo); John "Squint" Tolmar (villain); Pete Dugan (villain, prison barber); "Big George" Howlett (villain, death); Jergens (villain); "Machine Gun" Porter (villain)
Synopsis: After Batman saves the life of an innocent condemned man on death row, the prison warden asks him to stick around as "acting Warden" until a new one is appointed. But he is puzzled as to why a prisoner that is scheduled to be released the next day attempts to break out the evening before. Batman figures that it may be connected to $250,000 missing since a robbery years before since the con occupies the same cell as the executed criminal responsible for the robbery.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Art credits from GCD index of the original.
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The Parasols of Plunder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Mr. Rink (night watchman); un-named prison warden; The Penguin [Otis Cobblepot] (villain); Lefty (villain); Duke (villain)
Synopsis: The Penguin is released from prison on parole, providing he gives up anything having to do with birds. So he takes up an umbrella business....with the same criminal results!
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Credits from GCD index of original.
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"Hello, Nancy?"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Varsity Vic; Nancy; Jane
Synopsis: Vic combines two dates so he can study later.
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Pages: 1
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Timber!

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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Body Scupture Club
Synopsis: Bodybuilding ad similar to Charles Atlas ads in the United States.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On back cover.

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