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Issue: Detective Comics #137
Publication Date: July 1948
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Issues: #137 of 883 Issues (1380 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/24/1948
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (5 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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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The Rebus Crimes

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne] Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Joker (head view)
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In Content Item: FlagBatman Archives #7 published January 2007
as [Cover - Detective Comics #137]; The Rebus Crimes [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This cover is a paste up of figures by Mooney and Paris.

The Joker's head from the cover of Batman (DC, 1940 series) #44.
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Pages: 0.33
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Let the Facts Speak for Themselves--

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Feature(s): Real Fact Comics
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Rebus Crimes!

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Mr. Crayley (sub-treasury employee); Mr. Millman (millionaire gem collector); The Joker (villain); Joker's gang (villains)
Synopsis: A clever rebus sign on a local furrier's store gives the Joker yet a new and novel method of committing his crimes!
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Pages: 12
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You Run Faster in Keds!

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Feature(s): U. S. Keds
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Captain Tootsie Traps the Circus Culprit

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll Pop
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Cycle of Crimes!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Air Wave [Larry Jordan]
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Feature(s): Schwinn
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Won - By a Whisper!

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Genres: sports
Feature(s): Another Jim Wise "P-F" Sports Story; "P-F" Canvas Shoes
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The Balloon Bandits!

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
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Show Time

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Feature(s): Adventures of "Popsicle Pete"
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Secret Codes Can Be Fun

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Genres: informational
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Rounding Up the Rustlers

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): "U. S." Royal; U. S. Bike Tires
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Feature(s): Kellogg's Variety
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The Rise and Fall of a Gangster!

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Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): The Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn [Dan Turpin]; Andre Chavard; Tex]; Al Ferris; Biff Donnelly
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Shorty
First Line: Is the water deep?
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Feature(s): Cracker Jack
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Thom McAn
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Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Feature(s): Milky Way
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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