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Detective Comics, #163

Published: September 1950

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Detective Comics #163

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Issue Contents:
1 page superhero

"Beware of Batman! He's a walking bomb!"

Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Credits
New as Tomorrow!
Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

The Man Who Feared Metal!
Story 2 12 pages superhero

"What would you do if your life depended on your ability to stay clear of anything metallic?"

Storyline

In a quirk of fate, a wanted criminal, seriously injured in an explosion, has a metallic splinter driven into his skull, which has queer magnetic properties, requiring him to stay away from anything metal.

Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • unnamed sanitarium doctors
  • "Slippery Jim" Elgin [aka "The Man of 1000 Faces"] (villain, death)
  • unnamed criminals
  • unnamed construction workers
  • unnamed bum
  • unnamed hay wagon driver
  • unnamed police officers
Credits
Story 3 1 page children

"Look, gang! There's a real live Indian behind those bushes!"

Credits
Story Notes

Sold by Fleer.

Editorial Advisory Board
Story 4 1 page
Danger Is Where You Find It!

Featuring Danger Trail

Story 5 1 page
The Anti-Gravity Man!
Story 6 8 pages detective-mystery

"Suppose you could take off like a bird simply by swallowing a pill!"

Characters
  • Roy Raymond
  • Max Mauler (villain)
  • Nikko (henchman)
  • Karen
  • Harper
  • Abner Drake
  • Felix Jasper
Credits
Story 7 1 page humor

"Myrtle asked me to come over and keep her company tonight—oh boy!"

Characters
  • Shorty
Credits
Story 8 1 page
Robotman Meets Robotrobber!
Story 9 6 pages superhero

"When one man of metal meets another..."

Characters
  • Robotman [Robert Crane
  • aka Paul Dennis]
  • Robotrobber [actually Runt Gartery]
  • Ratface Underwood (crook)
Credits
Story Notes

Art credits from Mike Tiefenbacher; previous indexer suggested Lee Elias.

Featuring Science Snaps

Story 10 1 page non-fiction

"A single bacterium weighs about three two-hundreds billionths of a grain!"

Credits
Story 11 0 pages
No Kidding!
Story 12 4 pages humor

"If someone steals your goat's kid, does it get the goat's goat, or the kid's goat, or your goat?"

Characters
  • Dover
  • Clover
  • Silas Kornkrib
  • Matildy Kornkrib
Credits
Travels of a Diamond
Story 13 2 pages non-fiction; fashion; history; math & science; nature

"One of the tiniest of world travelers is a diamond."

Storyline

A diamond’s journey from African blue ground to the jeweler’s bench: mined, concentrated, sorted, cut, and reset into heirloom jewelry, with practical advice on remounting stones to suit changing fashions.

Story 14 1 page humor

"I gave Bill the gate..."

Characters
  • Peg
Credits
Story 15 0 pages
As Long as the Grass Shall Grow!
Story 16 10 pages western-frontier

"The treaty between red men and white men was to stand unbroken forever..."

Characters
  • Pow-Wow Smith
  • Many Feathers
  • Mantogee
Credits
Story Notes

Script credit from Craig Delich.

The Dodo and the Frog Ask "How Are Your Manners Out-of-Doors?"
Story 17 1 page advocacy; anthropomorphic-funny animals

"Dodo, we'd better do something quick!"

Characters
  • Dodo
  • Frog
Credits
Story 18 1 page

"Send today! Fun for all"

Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Rope 'Em Both, Partner!
Story 19 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.