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Detective Comics, #112

Published: June 1946

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Detective Comics #112

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Issue Contents:
The Case Without a Crime!
1 page superhero

"Stop! No crime has been committed here!"

Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • Papa Brugel
Credits
Editorial Advisory Board
Story 1 0 pages
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

H Is for Hippopotamus
Story 2 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

The Case Without a Crime!
Story 3 12 pages superhero

"Here is one of the toughest cases the Batman and Robin have ever encountered!"

Storyline

$99 missing from a shop owner's cash register leads Batman and Robin on the trail of the would-be thief.

Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • Papa Brugel (costume shop owner)
  • Eddie (costume shop fitter)
  • August (costume shop bookkeeper)
  • Cat-Woman [Corinne] (costume shop seamstress, not the real Catwoman]
  • Bobo the Bruiser (carnival wrestler)
Credits
Story Notes

Mortimer signed his own name to a shop sign on panel 3 of page 6.

Story 4 1 page humor

"Is a track meet the same as horse meat, Pepsi?"

Mel Ott
Story 5 1 page

"Here goes another record!"

Characters
  • Met Ott
District Attorney Larry Jordan ...Convict!
Story 6 6 pages superhero

"But I'm innocent, I tell you, I'm innocent!"

Characters
  • Air Wave [Larry Jordan]
Credits
5-Inning Flash Finds Himself
Story 7 1 page sports

"There goes the ball game."

Double Room Service!
Story 8 7 pages detective-mystery

"Slept like a top!"

Characters
  • Slam Bradley
  • Shorty Morgan
Credits
Story Notes

Pencil credit by Jerry Bails; previously given to Howard Sherman.

Story 9 0 pages advocacy

"Say, Pop, are you still buying bonds..."

Story Notes

This PSA is produced in sequential comics-art style.

Story 10 1 page

"Hurry! Hurry! Start your new series of comic buttons"

Featuring Good-Natured Harvey

Story 11 2 pages humor

"Now, if I could only fight!"

Characters
  • Harvey
Credits
Story Notes

Writer and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

Story 12 1 page humor

"Gosh, I'm hungry!"

Characters
  • Scruffy the Tramp
Credits
Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum
Story 13 1 page

"Dubble Bubble is the berries!"

Nobody Home
Story 14 2 pages adventure

"The knock roused Hardesty, who was just corking off."

Characters
  • Dan Hardesty
  • Superintendent Stolweig
  • Diane Meade
  • Marie (maid)
  • Jim (doorman)
Credits
Señor Death!
Story 15 12 pages adventure

"Hired killers of the mysterious Señor Muerte, master assassin, strike down the leaders of a great South American republic..."

Characters
  • The Boy Commandos [Rip Carter
  • Alfy Twidgett
  • Brooklyn [Dan Turpin]
  • Jan Haasan
  • Andre Chavard]
Credits
Drama Above the Streets!
Story 16 1 page adventure

"A football week-end in the big city...a swell hotel!"

How Thom McAn Saved the Doomed Balloon!
Story 17 1 page adventure

"Sinking rapidly. Can already feel heat of volcano."

Story 18 1 page

"Smart saddle leather zipper billfold!"

Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 19 1 page

"Plastic compass $1.98"

Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 20 1 page humor; military

"I'm afraid he isn't quite reconverted yet!"

Story Notes

Back cover.