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Issue: Detective Comics #237
Publication Date: November 1956
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Issues: #237 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: 09/23/1956
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 17 (5 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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The Search for a New Robin!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
First Line: Batman is testing those boys--and the winner is going to take my place!
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Pages: 1
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Draw Me

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First Line: You may win a $375.00 scholarship in commercial art
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Pages: 1
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Search for a New Robin

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; group of racketeers (villain)
First Line: For years, Batman and Robin had fought side by side.
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Pages: 10
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Casey the Cop; Mr. Van Moolah
First Line: There's Mr. Van Moolah.
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Pages: 0.5
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Wings and Winnie Winchester Help Capture Gorilla

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Genres: adventure
First Line: Winnie Look! The escape gorilla!
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Bunky's Special Election Exhibit

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Subject Matter
Genres: opinion, teen
Character(s): Binky Biggs
First Line: Hi, kids! Are you old enough to vote?
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Casey the Cop
First Line: Hmm - I guess the doctor was right!
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No. 1965 Daisy Frontier Shootin' Kit

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Genres: western
First Line: for harmless fun...
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: from Daisy Manufacturing Company
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Fingers of Flame

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Roy Raymond; Karen; Dutch Jones (villain, introduction)
First Line: Roy!... It's true! You set fire to anything you touch!
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Pages: 5.67
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[untitled]

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First Line: Be my guest at Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey.
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Pages: 0.33
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Airline Detective

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: mystery, non-fiction
First Line: When crooks began to hijack cargo in flight a new kind of sleuth emerged to foil them
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Pages: 2
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Here Are the Prizes in the Giant Slogan Contest

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First Line: Over 5000 prizes
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The Sleuth Who Went to Jail

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz; aka John Jones]; Captain Harding; group of mobsters (villains)
First Line: Get up, you oaf!
Synopsis: Jones is captured and placed in a prison run by the Underworld.
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In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Martian Manhunter #1 published September 2007
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Pages: 6
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First Line: 100 toy soldiers $1.25
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[untitled]

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First Line: Free! Treasure chest of prized stamps from pirate strongholds!
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[untitled]

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First Line: Do you want spending money? Sell these popular Patriotic and Religious Mottoes
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Boys girls get these prizes it's quick and easy
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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