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Issue Details

Issue #101
Published August 1956
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details - "The Great Bat-Cape Hunt!"

Genre superhero
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Letters Ira Schnapp (credit by O'Hearn/Desris)
Notes Revised pencil credit verified by Craig Delich (Nov. 2005). Credit previously given to Bob Kane. There is a remote possibility that Stan Kaye may have inked this cover.

8 page Batman story "The Vanished Batman"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner Gordon; Pack Purdy (Villain; Intro)
Synopsis Gotham City is shocked to see Robin drive up to Police HQ one day in a Robinmobile, and refuses to comment on the disappearance of his long-time partner in crime-fighting.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton (credit by O'Hearn)
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff (as Bob Kane)
Inks Stan Kaye
Letters Pat Gordon
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-3-07.
Reprinted in Batman Annual (DC, 1961 series) #4 (Winter 1963)

1 page Peter Porkchops public service announcement "The Case of the Careless Camper!"

Genre funny animal
Script Jack Schiff?
Pencils Win Mortimer?
Inks Win Mortimer?
Colors Ira Schnapp

8 page Batman story "The Six Strangest Sleuths"

Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton (credit by O'Hearn)
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Letters Pat Gordon

1 page Casey the Cop filler

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

2 page text article "Two-Wheeled Lawmen"

Script Jack Miller
Letters typeset

Half page Little Orvil filler

8 page Batman story "The Great Bat-Cape Hunt!"

Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger (credit by O'Hearn)
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Letters Pat Gordon