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Detective Comics, #242

Published: April 1957

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Detective Comics #242

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Issue Contents:
The Underworld Bat-Cave!
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • Brainy Walker (villain)
  • Trigger Turner (villain)
  • Rackets Reed (villain)
Credits
Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

The Underworld Bat-Cave
Story 2 12 pages superhero
Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • Commissioner James Gordon
  • Alfred Pennyworth
  • Brainy Walker (villain, intrduction)
  • Trigger Turner (villain, introduction)
  • Rackets Reed (villain, introduction)
Credits
Story 3 1 page
Buzzy Learns About Careers in Nursing
Story 4 1 page advocacy; teen
Characters
  • Buzzy Brown
Credits
The Man Who Could Make Money
Story 5 6 pages detective-mystery
Characters
  • Roy Raymond
  • Karen
  • Casper Creed (villain, introduction)
Credits
Story 6 1 page
Story Notes

Sold by Honor House Products.

Story 7 1 page humor

"Prisoner escaped!"

Characters
  • Warden Willis
Credits
Trap for a Smuggler
Story 8 1 page
Story 9 1 page humor

"Now are you sure it will be allright, Casey?"

Characters
  • Casey the Cop
  • Sarge
  • Commissioner
Credits
Did You Enter the Superman DC National Comics Slogan Contest?
Story 10 0 pages
The Thirty Fathom Sleuth
Story 11 6 pages superhero
Storyline

The Martian Manhunter stops a pair of underwater safe-crackers.

Characters
  • Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz
  • aka John Jones]
  • Captain Harding
  • Jack Platter (villain, introduction)
  • Larry "Nitro" Bates (villain, introduction)
Credits
Story Notes

writer credit by Bob Hughes

Story 12 1 page
Story Notes

Sold by Josely Co.

Story 13 1 page
Story 14 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Mickey Mantle Goes to Bat for "Dick Butterfingers"
Story 15 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.