Published: August-September 1974
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Story Featuring Batman
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
"The Batman in "Death Flies the Haunted Sky!" -- page 4"
"Earlier, a flash storm had shattered this Spring evening in Gotham!"
With due homage to Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson, George Roussos, and Neal Adams.
Story Featuring The Newsboy Legion
"The old house huddles in its weed-grown yard... an enigma from the past..."
Citizens are very concerned that the Presby brothers haven't been seen in over 25 years, so the boys and the Guardian investigate, only to learn that they locked themselves in their home to avoid contact with World War 1 and now World War 2. However, that plays right into the hands of a couple of Nazi spies who intend to use their home as a secret Nazi radio station to contact submarines.
Re-colored from the original printing in Star Spangled Comics (1941 series) #21 (June 1943).
Story Featuring Hawkman
"Do you like "locked room mysteries"-- in which a crime takes place that is "impossible"?"
Hawkman tricks a thief into confessing to an "impossible" robbery.
Story Featuring Black Canary
"The highway was haunted! How else could one explain the trucks that traveled on it... to nowhere!"
Black Canary must help Larry in his quest to discover why trucks keep disappearing on the Franklin Turnpike.
1st solo appearance of the Black Canary.
Story Featuring The Elongated Man
"It was a hundred-dollar bill!"
Story Featuring Batman and Robin
"Crooks disappear! Well, that's nothing new!"
Batman and Robin are surprised to learn that an abandoned village in Florida, patterned after a Turkish village named Alhambra, has vanished, which is also the home of many a master criminal who has also disappeared.
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Story Featuring Doctor Fate
"Hidden in the marshes south of the Baranga River stands an old stone house."
A mad man invents a sound system that kills people at a distance and Dr. Fate sets out to halt the senseless murders that have already occurred.
Oddity: in the first few panels, Kent Nelson wears the golden cape of Dr. Fate.
Story Featuring Manhunter
"Japan! Around the hot springs of the Matsue area, many resorts have grown since World War II."
Tracking Dr. Mykros back to Sanctuary, Manhunter must battle his teacher, Asano Nitobe.
Alan Kupperberg is the credited letterer of this story in Manhunter: The Special Edition (1999), where this story is reprinted. The Simonson lettering credit is per Archie Goodwin on page 97 of Detective Comics #443 (October-November 1974).
Letter Column Featuring Batman's Hot-Line
"Thanks to some scheduling changes, we're down to one page for letters this issue."
Letter of comment from Antone Perry.
Ad Featuring Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns
"Get yourself a copy of “The Air Rifle Marksman” by Daisy and learn the sacred code of the Daisy Rifleman."
Ad for Daisy B-B Guns. Color and sepia tone ad on back cover.
Ad Featuring Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System
"Hey! Quit kicking that sand in our faces!"
Inside back cover comics ad.
Ad for new muscle building program.
The ad is between pages 6 and 7 of the Elongated Man story.
Story Featuring Superman
House ad for Superman (DC, 1938 series) #279.
"Judo-Jiu-Jitsu-Savate the total defense system"
Ad for martial arts training information on the inside front cover.
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