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Issue: Detective Comics #226
Publication Date: December 1955
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Issues: #226 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/25/1955
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 16 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint; glossy
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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When Batman Was Robin!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Robin [Bruce Wayne]
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When Batman Was Robin

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne] [also as Robin]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Harvey Harris (detective, introduction, death); Mr. Bellew (famous clock collector); Mr. Van Marden (colored glass collector); A. C. Garritt (collector of "famous firsts"); Arthur Mellen (villain, wealthy collector of big ship models)
Synopsis: Bruce Wayne receives a disturbing parcel in the mail: a Robin costume that he once wore as a youth when he was studying how to be a detective from the famed Harvey Harris...the man who obviously knows that Batman is Bruce Wayne!
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In Content Item: FlagBatman Annual #2 published January 1961
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In Content Item: FlagDC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals #1 published June 2009
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Disclose Notes: The origin of the Robin costume.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Casey the Cop
First Line: I'm glad the mayor started a campaign to keep the streets clean...
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"Wings" Winchester Saves the Movie Theater

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Genres: adventure
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Roy Raymond -- Super Athlete!

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Roy Raymond
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First Line: To the boys and girls of America...
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How a Nation Is Born, Your United Nations at Work

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Genres: non-fiction, opinion
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Sleuth on the Sawdust Trail

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The Case of the Magic Baseball

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz; aka John Jones]; Lt. Saunders; Brad Devon (villain); Trigger Tom Taylor (villain); Big Bob Michaels (villain)
Synopsis: Brad Devon and his mob try to blackmail a rookie pitcher to throw his first major-league game.
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In Content Item: FlagWorld's Finest Comics #176 published June 1968
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman Presents World's Finest Comic Monthly #42 published October 1968
as The Case of the Magic Baseball [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #3/1969 published February 1969
as Der verzauberte Baseball [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWorld's Finest Comics #226 published November 1974
as The Case of the Magic Baseball [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Martian Manhunter #1 published September 2007
as The Case of the Magic Baseball [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Disclose Notes: Current credit is from Showcase presents the Martian Manhunter vol 1.
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Disclose Notes: Sold by Daisy Manufacturing Company.
Inside back cover.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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