Detective Comics, #149

Published: July 1949

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Detective Comics #149

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Issue Contents:
The Sound Effect Crimes
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • The Joker
Credits
Story Notes

Penciler credit verified by Sprang and inker credit verified by Craig Delich.

Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

The Sound-Effect Crimes!
Story 2 12 pages superhero
Storyline

The sound effects from a radio drama spur the Joker to institute a new crime idea: that of using sound to create panic among the city's populace in order to make easy scores.

Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • The Joker (villain)
  • Joker's gang (villains)
Credits
Story Notes

Penciler credit verified by Sprang. Inker credit verified by Craig Delich; we previously suggested Howard Sherman and Gene McDonald.

Story 3 1 page
Captain Tootsie and the Mysterious Plan
Story 4 1 page superhero

"Hi, fellas and girls!"

Credits
The Lost Evidence!
Story 5 6 pages superhero
Characters
  • Robotman [Robert Crane
  • aka Paul Dennis]
Credits
Story Notes

Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn.

Focusing on the Firebug
Story 6 1 page adventure
Shorty Grows Up!
Story 7 7 pages detective-mystery
Characters
  • Slam Bradley
  • Shorty Morgan
Credits
Story 8 1 page
Story 9 1 page humor

"Golly, all the boys carry the girls' books home..."

Characters
  • Shorty
Editorial Advisory Board
Story 10 1 page
Science Question Box
Story 11 2 pages non-fiction
Story 12 2 pages humor; teen

"Hi, Vic! The whole gang is going to the movies this afternoon..."

Characters
  • Varsity Vic
Story 13 1 page
River Rescue
Story 14 1 page adventure
The Case of the Ex-Boy Commando!
Story 15 10 pages adventure
Characters
  • The Boy Commandos [Rip Carter
  • Brooklyn [Dan Turpin]
  • Tex
  • Andre Chavard]
Credits
Story 16 1 page humor

"C'mon - Get moving!"

Characters
  • Casey
Story 17 1 page
In Hollywood with Roddy McDowall at Monogram Pictures Studio
Story 18 1 page
Credits
A Superman DC Publication means the Best in Westerns

Featuring All-American Western; Dale Evans Comics; Western Comics

Story 19 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Escaped Bear...And a Bare Escape!
Story 20 1 page adventure
Story Notes

Back cover.