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223September 1955
$0.10

Detective Comics #223

DC · September 1955 · on sale 1955-07-26

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Identification plate

Series
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue
#223
Publication date
September 1955
Key date
1955-09-00
On-sale date
1955-07-26
Indicia publisher
National Comics Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0The Batman Dime Museum!cover1pencils: Win Mortimer; inks: Win Mortimer; letters: Ira Schnapp
2The Batman Dime-Museumcomic story12pencils: Sheldon Moldoff; inks: Stan Kaye
4-comic story0.67script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
6The Race That Saved a Country!comic story6script: Otto Binder; pencils: Joe Certa; inks: Joe Certa
8-comic story0.75script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff
10How to Be an Eyewitnesstext article2script: Jonathan Maxwell
11Hercules Lives Againcomic story6pencils: Amilcar Ruben Moreira; inks: Amilcar Ruben Moreira

Plus 7.58 pages of advertisements and other matter across 9 sequences, as published.

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CollectionYear
Batman: Secrets of the Batcave #[nn]
ISBN 978-1-4012-1370-1
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