Detective Comics, #235

Published: September 1956

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Detective Comics #235

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Issue Contents:
The First Batman!
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • Batman [Dr. Thomas Wayne]
  • Lew Moxon
Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

The First Batman
Story 2 10 pages superhero
Storyline

The discovery of an old Batman-type costume in Bruce Wayne's attic re-opens the Wayne murder case, and helps him realize that Joey Chill had ONLY been hired to kill his parents...and the real man responsible was still alive and free.

Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne] (origin re-cap)
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • Commissioner James Gordon
  • Dr. Thomas Wayne [as Bat-Man] (cameo, flashback)
  • Martha Wayne (cameo, flashback)
  • Lew Moxon (villain, introduction, death)
  • Joey Chill (villain, death)
Credits
Story Notes

Panel 7 on page 6 is Moldoff's recreation of the scene from Batman #9's cover.

Story 3 1 page
Story 4 1 page humor

"Good morning."

Characters
  • Casey the Cop
Story 5 1 page
The Hour of Hoaxes
Story 6 6 pages detective-mystery
Characters
  • Roy Raymond
  • Karen
  • unnamed spy (villain, introduction)
Credits
The Big Dance
Story 7 1 page advocacy
Credits
Here Are the Prizes
Story 8 3 pages
The Black Museum
Story 9 1 page non-fiction; crime
The World's Greatest Magician
Story 10 6 pages superhero
Storyline

Jones becomes a circus magician in order to smoke out a thief.

Characters
  • Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz
  • aka John Jones]
  • Captain Harding
  • The Phantom Thief [Jojo] (villain, introduction)
  • Daro (villain, introduction)
  • Zodak (villain, introduction)
Credits
Story Notes

Script credit by Bob Hughes.

Story 11 1 page
Story 12 1 page
Story 13 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 14 1 page
Story Notes

Ad for the Schwinn Phantom model. Back cover.