Detective Comics #217 (1955) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Mental Giant of Gotham City!	cover	1	pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Mental Giant [Barney Barrows]
2	The Mental Giant of Gotham City!	comic story	10	script: Edmond Hamilton; pencils: Dick Sprang; inks: Charles Paris	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Mental Giant [Barney Barrows] (villain, reforms); The Mental's Mob [Kyler; rest unnamed] (villains)
4	-	comic story	2	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff	Casey
5	Your United Nations at Work!	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp
6	The World's Sea Fair!	comic story	6	script: Otto Binder; pencils: Joe Certa; inks: Joe Certa	Captain Compass [Mark Compass]
7	-	comic story	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff	Little Pete
8	The Famous DC Symbol	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5
9	-	activity	1	script: Martin Naydel; pencils: Martin Naydel; inks: Martin Naydel; letters: Martin Naydel
10	Laundry-Mark Sleuth	text article	2	letters: typeset
11	The Unlucky Guest Stars!	comic story	6	pencils: Amilcar Ruben Moreira; inks: Amilcar Ruben Moreira	Roy Raymond

Plus 6 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

Collection	Year
Batman Annual #3	1962	On eBay ›
DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-2192-8	2009	On eBay ›

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