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Issue Details

Issue #252
Published February 1958
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "The Creature from the Green Lagoon!"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Genre superhero
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff

12 page Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder story "The Creature from the Green Lagoon"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Tod Martin (intro, villain)
Synopsis A film producer friend of Batman's on Skull Island sends for the Dynamic Duo and shows them a set he has built for a movie in production....a wall to keep out a creature that is wrecking his production equipment and preventing the movie from being completed for some unknown reason.
Genre superhero
Script Dave Wood
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff [as Bob Kane]
Inks Charles Paris
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-18-07.
Reprinted In Batman Annual (DC, 1961 series) #6 (Winter 1964)

Half page Casey the Cop filler "Hmm--"

Characters Casey the Cop
Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

Half page statement of ownership "Ownership, Management, and Circulation of Detective Comics"

Script J.S. Liebowitz
Letters typeset
Notes Statement for October 1, 1957.

1 page public service announcement "The Flushing Remonstrance"

Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff ?
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown
Letters Ira Schnapp

6 page John Jones Manhunter from Mars story "The Menace of the Super Weapons"

Characters Martian Manhunter [John Jones; J'onn J'onzz]; Captain Harding (supporting); Waldo Wilson (intro, villain)
Synopsis Manunter is helpless to stop Waldo Wilson's super weapons.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Miller
Pencils Joe Certa
Inks Joe Certa
Notes Script credit from the index to the Artima reprint.
Reprinted In Big Boy (Artima, 1956 series) #23 August 1958; in Showcase Presents Martian Manhunter (DC, 2007 series) #1

1 page text story "Danger Trail"

Genre adventure
Letters typeset

2 page Warden Willis filler "The Commissioner is visiting our prison tomorrow."

Characters Warden Willis; Commissioner
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

6 page Roy Raymond TV Detective story "The Undersea City"

Characters Roy Raymond; Karen (supporting); Horace Wakely (intro)
Genre detective
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira
Reprinted In Big Boy (Artima, 1956 series) #23 August 1958

Half page Jail Jests filler "I did not say that!"

Characters Spike; Schultz
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff