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Issue Details

Issue #97
Published March 1945
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Jack Schiff; Whitney Ellsworth (editor-in-chief)

Cover Details

Characters Batman; Robin.
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Inks Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Letters typeset
Reprinted In The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #4 (June 1998).

12 page Batman story "The Secret of the Switch"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Oscar the Weasel [villain]; Benny the Gimp [villain]; Joe the Nutcracker [villain]; Nick Petri [villain]; the Slasher [villain, D].
Synopsis The Batman tracks down the unusual safe that holds the loot taken years before by the Slasher's mob. With the Slasher supposedly dead, the villain has left behind a note leading the Caped Crusaders to that safe: a safe having 7 switches, only one of which opens the safe...the rest are connected to a bomb!
Genre superhero
Script Joe Greene
Pencils Dick Sprang
Inks Dick Sprang
Letters Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Notes Letterer credit by Craig Delich (Nov. 2005). Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 4-18-09.
Reprinted In The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #4 (June 1998).

6 page Slam Bradley story "Call of Death"

Characters Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan.
Genre detective
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman
Notes Revised artist credits by Jerry Bails (Nov. 2005). Previously credited also to John Daly?

1 page Gags and Groans filler

Genre humor
Pencils ? (signed as Lit Win)
Inks ? (signed as Lit Win)
Notes Lit-Win is a pen name, whom Jack Burnley met on occasion, but he couldn't remember his true name.

2 page text story "Too Much for Granted"

Genre adventure
Script Eddie Bell (signed)
Letters typeset

4 page Three-Ring Binks story "Fido the Gabber"

Characters Three-Ring Binks
Genre humor
Script Jack Farr
Pencils Jack Farr
Inks Jack Farr
Letters Jack Farr
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 4-18-09.

6 page Air Wave story "Doubling in Danger"

Characters Air Wave [Larry Jordan]
Genre superhero
Pencils George Roussos
Inks George Roussos
Colors George Roussos
Letters George Roussos

11 page The Boy Commandos story "He Swings through the Air"

Characters The Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Alfy; Brooklyn; Andre; Jan]
Genre war; adventure
Pencils Jack Kirby?
Inks George Klein?

1 page Batman and Robin public service announcement "March of Dimes"

Characters Batman; Robin
Synopsis PSA for the March of Dimes.
Genre superhero
Notes This feature is out of proper sequence.