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Issue Details

Issue #151
Published September 1949
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)
Notes Information on filler and text features are unavailable for this issue.

Cover Details

Characters Batman; Robin.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Notes Information on filler and text features are unavailable for this issue.
Reprinted In The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #7 (November 2007).

12 page Batman story "I.O.U. My Life!"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Peter Chaney; Mr. Jenkins (D); Homer Davis [also as Mr. Jenkins] (villain); Ben Kole (villain); Lazy Larry Gang (villains).
Synopsis Ben Kole, a supposed student of Egyptology, has the weird hobby of saving people's lives, then demanding that they sign an "I.O.U. My Life" form in order to later blackmail those he saved.
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Sprang (signed as Bob Kane)
Inks Dick Sprang (signed as Bob Kane)
Notes Inker credit revised & verified by Craig Delich (Nov. 2005). Inker credit previously given to Gene McDonald. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 106-08.
Reprinted In The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #7 (November 2007).

2 page text story "?"

Genre adventure
Letters typeset
Notes This sequence is most likely out of proper sequence.

Half page ? public service announcement "?"

Characters Batman; Robin.
Genre superhero
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel

6 page Robotman story "Around the World in 24 Hrs"

Characters Robotman [Paul Dennis]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson

7 page Slam Bradley story "?"

Characters Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan.
Genre detective
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman

2 page ? filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

Half page ? filler

Genre humor

10 page Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman story "?"

Characters Pow-Wow Smith (intro).
Genre western
Script Don Cameron
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks George Klein?

1 page Superman public service announcement "Safety First"

Characters Superman
Genre superhero; fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Wayne Boring
Letters Ira Schnapp