Detective Comics #135 (1948) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The True Story of Frankenstein	cover	1	pencils: Win Mortimer, Bob Kane; inks: Win Mortimer, Charles Paris; letters: Ira Schnapp	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Ivan
1	Editorial Advisory Board	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
2	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.67
3	The True Story of Frankenstein!	comic story	12	script: Edmond Hamilton; pencils: Bob Kane; inks: Charles Paris	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Professor Carter Nichols; Baron Frankenstein; Ivan (villain, Frankenstein's assistant, death); Count Mettern (villain, Frankenstein's cousin, death)
6	Unscrambled Proverbs!	comic story	5	pencils: Lee Harris; inks: Lee Harris	Air Wave [Larry Jordan]
8	The Chimp and the Chump!	comic story	7	pencils: Howard Sherman; inks: Howard Sherman	Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
11	Weatherproof	text story	2	script: John Pollard
14	Crimes by Television!	comic story	12	pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Steve Brodie	The Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Andre Chavard; Tex; Brooklyn [Dan Turpin]; Jan Haasan]

Plus 12 pages of advertisements and other matter across 11 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Batman Archives #6 ISBN 1-4012-0409-0	2005	On eBay ›
Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus #6 ISBN 978-1-4012-8438-1	2019	On eBay ›

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