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Issue Details

Issue #77
Published February 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "The Boy Who Wanted Robin For Christmas"

Characters Robin [Dick Grayson]
Genre superhero
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Notes Revised artist credits from Mortimer & Ray Burnley to Mooney verified by Craig Delich (October, 2005).
Reprinted in Robin Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1

10 page Robin story "The Boy Who Wanted Robin for Christmas!"

Characters Robin [Dick Grayson]; Bertram Beem (a billionaire magnate); Mr. Coombs (Beem's guardian); Jervis (villain, Beem's butler)
Synopsis A richest boy in the world authorizes his mentor to provide $50,000 to the Police Fund IF he gets to work on a case with Robin to track down a crooked Santa Claus.
Genre superhero
Pencils Jim Mooney [as Bob Kane] (signed)
Inks Jim Mooney [as Bob Kane] (signed)
Reprinted in Robin Archives (DC, 2005 series) #1

6 page Robotman story "Robotman vs. Rubberman"

Characters Robotman [Robert Crane, aka Paul Dennis]; Robotdog; Rubberman (villain); Frank the Fire-Eater (villain)
Synopsis Robotman and Robotdog face the slippery and evil aims of a man who literally has a body made of rubber, making his capture rather difficult.
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson
Letters Jimmy Thompson
Notes Writer credit verified by Martin O'Hearn.
Reprinted in Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1990 series) #nn

7 page The Star-Spangled Kid story "The Big Bad Banker"

Characters Star Spangled Kid [Sylvester Pemberton]; Stripesy [Pat Dugan]
Genre superhero
Pencils Winslow Mortimer
Inks Winslow Mortimer

5 page Penniless Palmer story "The Case of the Missing Gopher"

Characters Penniless Palmer
Genre humor
Pencils Thurston Harper
Inks Thurston Harper

10 page Tomahawk story "Assignment in Peril"

Characters Tomahawk [Tom Hawk]
Genre western; period
Pencils Fred Ray
Inks Fred Ray