Detective Comics, #442

Published: August-September 1974

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Issue Contents:
Death Flies the Haunted Sky!

Story Featuring Batman

Credits
Story Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

Detective Comics / Contents

"The Batman in "Death Flies the Haunted Sky!" -- page 4"

Death Flies the Haunted Sky

Story Featuring Batman

"Earlier, a flash storm had shattered this Spring evening in Gotham!"

Credits
Story Notes

With due homage to Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson, George Roussos, and Neal Adams.

The House Where Time Stood Still

Story Featuring The Newsboy Legion

"The old house huddles in its weed-grown yard... an enigma from the past..."

Storyline

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.

Story Notes

Re-colored from the original printing in Star Spangled Comics (1941 series) #21 (June 1943).

The Magic Mirror Mystery!

Story Featuring Hawkman

"Do you like "locked room mysteries"-- in which a crime takes place that is "impossible"?"

Storyline

Hawkman tricks a thief into confessing to an "impossible" robbery.

The Huntress of the Highway!

Story Featuring Black Canary

"The highway was haunted! How else could one explain the trucks that traveled on it... to nowhere!"

Storyline

Black Canary must help Larry in his quest to discover why trucks keep disappearing on the Franklin Turnpike.

Story Notes

1st solo appearance of the Black Canary.

The Robbery That Never Happened!

Story Featuring The Elongated Man

"It was a hundred-dollar bill!"

Vanishing Village!

Story Featuring Batman and Robin

"Crooks disappear! Well, that's nothing new!"

Storyline

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.

Story Notes

Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder

Murder in Baranga Marsh

Story Featuring Doctor Fate

"Hidden in the marshes south of the Baranga River stands an old stone house."

Storyline

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.

Story Notes

Oddity: in the first few panels, Kent Nelson wears the golden cape of Dr. Fate.

Chapter 6: To Duel the Master

Story Featuring Manhunter

"Japan! Around the hot springs of the Matsue area, many resorts have grown since World War II."

Storyline

Tracking Dr. Mykros back to Sanctuary, Manhunter must battle his teacher, Asano Nitobe.

Story Notes

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."

Story Notes

Letter of comment from Antone Perry.

If You Want Your Dad To Give You a Daisy B-B Gun, Give Yourself This Free Booklet

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."

Story Notes

Ad for Daisy B-B Guns. Color and sepia tone ad on back cover.

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.

Rush This Coupon Now!
Storyline

Ad for new muscle building program.

Story Notes

The ad is between pages 6 and 7 of the Elongated Man story.

Coming Super-Attractions!

Story Featuring Superman

Story Notes

House ad for Superman (DC, 1938 series) #279.

Karate

"Judo-Jiu-Jitsu-Savate the total defense system"

Story Notes

Ad for martial arts training information on the inside front cover.