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Issue: Detective Comics #245
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 05/21/1957
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 16 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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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 Dynamic Trio!

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Subject Matter
superhero
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Vicki Vale; Mysteryman [Commissioner James Gordon]
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Miscellaneous
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Draw Me

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Inside front cover.
The Dynamic Trio

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Mysteryman [Commissioner James Gordon]; Alfred Pennyworth; Vicki Vale; unnamed Editor of View magazine; group of smugglers (villain)
Batman declares he needs help to crack a smuggling ring and brings in new hero called Mysteryman. Vicki Vale spends the whole story trying to figure out who Mysteryman is.
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FlagBatman Annual #7 published January 1964
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FlagThe Batman Family #2 published November 1975
as The Dynamic Trio [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagDC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals #2 published October 2010
as The Dynamic Trio [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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For the Best in Comics Entertainment

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Binky Shows "How to Make New Friends!"

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Subject Matter
humorous, opinion, teen
Binky; Allergy; Bob; Pete
Binky suggests Allergy make friends with a new kid, Bob, but Pete does instead and then gets Allergy and the rest of the gang interested.
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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
humorous
Warden Willis; 6442
Warden, I just caught 6442!
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The X-Y-Z Ray

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Subject Matter
mystery
Roy Raymond; Karen (supporting); Harry Horner (intro, villain)
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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
humorous
Casey the Cop; Slippery Sam
Hmm, there goes Slippery Sam!
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Miscellaneous
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Tracking the Insurance Frauds

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non-fiction
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Miscellaneous
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The Phantom Fire Alarms

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Subject Matter
superhero
Martian Manhunter [John Jones; J'onn J'onzz]; Lance Faber (intro, villain)
Gangster Lance Faber discovers Jones is a Martian whose weakness is fire. But then Jones seems to no longer be affected by fire at all!
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FlagShowcase Presents: Martian Manhunter #1 published September 2007
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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

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humorous
Warden Willis
Hello, warden!
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Miscellaneous
0.5
[untitled]

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Miscellaneous
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[untitled]

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Inside back cover.
Mickey Mantle Goes to Bat for the "Unlucky Fishermen"

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Back cover.

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