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Issue Details

Issue #88
Published December 1954
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth
Notes Tommy Wilson figure & word balloon in foreground taken from splash page of "The Son of Batman" story this issue.

Cover Details - "The Son of Batman"

Characters The Batman; Robin
Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer, Sheldon Moldoff [figure of boy only]
Inks Win Mortimer, Charles Paris [figure of boy only]
Letters Ira Schnapp (credit by O'Hearn/Desris), Pat Gordon (letters word balloon only)
Notes Tommy Wilson figure & word balloon in foreground taken from splash page of "The Son of Batman" story this issue.

8 page Batman story "The Mystery of the Four Batmen!"

Characters The Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; V: Duke Walling, Lefty Lingard, Horace Hubert, Egbert Smills, and Dr. Veering (I for all)
Synopsis The Batman & Ribon board a cruise ship at sea, the Vardonic, in order to track down an accomplish of a gang operating in Gotham City. The list of suspects includes four "Batmen"!
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton (credit by O'Hearn)
Pencils Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Inks Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Letters Pat Gordon
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-17-07.
Reprinted In Batman Annual (DC, 1961 series) #6 (Winter 1964)

1 page Movie Mirth filler

Genre fact

8 page Batman story "Three Letters To Batman!"

Characters The Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger?
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Letters Pat Gordon

Half page Casey the Cop filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page Little Pete filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

2 page text story "The Case of the Harmless Crackpots"

Genre adventure
Script Joe Maloney (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes Joe Maloney (Jack Miller?)

8 page Batman story "The Son of Batman!"

Characters The Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; V: Big Jim Garver (I); I: Ed and Tommy Wilson
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger?
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Letters Pat Gordon