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Detective Comics, #425

Published: July 1972

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Issue Contents:
The Stage Is Set for Murder!

Story Featuring Batman

"Death lurks in the wings, as Batman plays the starring role in... The Stage Is Set for Murder!"

Credits
Story Notes

Cover art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

The Stage Is Set... for Murder!

Story Featuring Batman

"A summer night in Gotham Park."

Credits
Story Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Open-and-Shut Case!

Story Featuring Jason Bard

"Gotham City -- tough, sprawling proving-ground of the "greats" on crime-fighting... The Batman -- Batgirl... now makes way for a new breed of fighter against the evil forces polluting the city's bloodstream!"

Credits
Story Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. First entry in the series "[The] Master Crime-File of Jason Bard" appearing in odd-numbered issues of Detective Comics (DC, 1937 Series) 425 (July 1972) thru 435 (March 1973).

All DC Magazines Now Only 20¢!!

"Rather than explain our new price policy personally, I've asked all our editors to tell you in their own way why there is a price reduction for this magazine."

Storyline

Editorial on the price of DC Comics.

Credits

Letter Column Featuring Batman's Hot-Line

Credits
Story Notes

Letters of comment from Dan Recchia, Clem Robins, and Lori Mead.

In-House Column Featuring Direct Currents

"Wanted -- The World's Most Dangerous Villians!!"

Dig These!

Ad Featuring Monogram Models

"Four new Snap Tite drag construction models you build without glue, without paint and without help."

Story Notes

The back cover contains an advertisement for Snap Tite model shovel, bulldozer, mover, and skipshovel.

The Insult That Made a Man Out of "Mac"

Ad Featuring Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System

"Hey! Quit kicking that sand in our faces!"

Story Notes

Inside back cover comics ad for Charles Atlas' "Dynamic-Tension" book.

Roger's Super Skittle Bowl

Ad Featuring Aurora Products

"Look that's Roger Staubach, the famous football star"

Story Notes

Advertisement done in comic format for the Olympic Size Skittle Bowl, promoted by football's Dallas Cowboy's quarterback, Roger Staubach, by Aurora Productions Corporation from West Hempstead, New York.

Ad Featuring Honor House Products Novelties

Story Notes

Ad for toys and novelties, in classified format. Includes Sea-Monkeys.

Ad Featuring Joe Weider Course and Products

"What do these champions have in common... with you?"

Story Notes

Ad for body building course.

Ad Featuring Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns

"If you think it just looks real, wait till you shoot it!"

Story Notes

Ad for Daisy "1894" air-gun, with coupon for trap-target kit.

The New Three-Wheel RRRumblers Are Here!

Ad Featuring Mattel Toys

"And they're tearing up Hot Wheels tracks all over America."

Story Notes

The inside front cover contains an ad for racing motorcycle toys.

Task Force / Cannon Ball
Write Right Now!
Story Notes

Assorted small advertisements.