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Detective Comics, #237

Published: November 1956

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Detective Comics #237

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Issue Contents:
The Search for a New Robin!
1 page superhero

"Batman is testing those boys--and the winner is going to take my place!"

Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
Credits
Draw Me
Story 1 1 page

"You may win a $375.00 scholarship in commercial art"

Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Search for a New Robin
Story 2 10 pages superhero

"For years, Batman and Robin had fought side by side."

Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • Commissioner James Gordon
  • Alfred Pennyworth
  • group of racketeers (villain)
Credits
Story 3 1 page humor

"There's Mr. Van Moolah."

Characters
  • Casey the Cop
  • Mr. Van Moolah
Credits
Wings and Winnie Winchester Help Capture Gorilla
Story 4 1 page adventure

"Winnie Look! The escape gorilla!"

Bunky's Special Election Exhibit
Story 5 1 page advocacy; teen

"Hi, kids! Are you old enough to vote?"

Characters
  • Binky Biggs
Credits
Story Notes

This PSA is produced in sequential comics-art style.

Story 6 1 page humor

"Hmm - I guess the doctor was right!"

Characters
  • Casey the Cop
Credits
No. 1965 Daisy Frontier Shootin' Kit
Story 7 1 page western-frontier

"for harmless fun..."

Story Notes

from Daisy Manufacturing Company

Fingers of Flame
Story 8 6 pages detective-mystery

"Roy!... It's true! You set fire to anything you touch!"

Characters
  • Roy Raymond
  • Karen
  • Dutch Jones (villain, introduction)
Credits
  • Pencils:
  • Inks:
  • Colors:
Story 9 0 pages

"Be my guest at Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey."

Airline Detective
Story 10 2 pages non-fiction; detective-mystery

"When crooks began to hijack cargo in flight a new kind of sleuth emerged to foil them"

Credits
Story Notes

Second page appears after the following sequence.

Here Are the Prizes in the Giant Slogan Contest
Story 11 3 pages

"Over 5000 prizes"

The Sleuth Who Went to Jail
Story 12 6 pages superhero

"Get up, you oaf!"

Storyline

Jones is captured and placed in a prison run by the Underworld.

Characters
  • Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz
  • aka John Jones]
  • Captain Harding
  • group of mobsters (villains)
Credits
Story Notes

Writer credit by Bob Hughes.

Story 13 1 page

"100 toy soldiers $1.25"

Story 14 1 page

"Free! Treasure chest of prized stamps from pirate strongholds!"

Story 15 1 page

"Do you want spending money? Sell these popular Patriotic and Religious Mottoes"

Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 16 1 page

"Boys girls get these prizes it's quick and easy"

Story Notes

Back cover.