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Issue: Detective Comics #339
Publication Date: May 1965
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Issues: #339 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 Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/25/1965
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 18 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from ad in Justice League of America #35 and 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
Format Notes:  
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Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Karmak the Gorilla
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In Content Item: FlagDC Special #16 published January 1975
as Super-Heroes Battle Super-Gorillas [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagBatman: The Dynamic Duo Archives #2 published August 2006
as [Cover - Detective Comics #339]; Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBatman: The Dynamic Duo Archives #2 published August 2006
as Cover Gallery [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Batman #1 published October 2006
as Detective Comics #339 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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What's Wrong with These Pictures?

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: opinion
Synopsis: a quiz on general manners and safety information for children
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.
Previously appeared in DC comics cover-dated May 1960.
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Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Walter Hewitt (first appearance); Karmak the Gorilla (first appearance, villain)
Synopsis: Walter Hewitt, a loner scientist, develops a ray that gives him the abilities of animals. Unfortunately something goes wrong and a gorilla gets his intelligence and forces him to commit crimes. Batman battles the gorilla but it uses the ray to get Batman's abilities. The gorilla makes a bomb that will go off if he is defeated but Batman figures out how to stop the bomb from exploding.
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In Issue: FlagDC Goes Ape #1 published December 2008
In Content Item: FlagLynvingen #2/1968 published February 1968
as Lynvingens kamp mot apebomben [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDC Special #16 published January 1975
as Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBatman: The Dynamic Duo Archives #2 published August 2006
as Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Batman #1 published October 2006
as Batman Battles the Living Beast-Bomb! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15.34
Disclose Notes: Story is divided into two chapters, the first is 5.67 pages, the second is 9.67 pages.
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: On the bottom of page 6 of the previous story sequence.
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Super Fun

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Disclose Notes: On the page between page 6 and page 7 of the previous story sequence.
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Feature(s): 80 Page Giant; Superman
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: On the page between page 8 and page 9 of the previous story sequence.
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Bob Breaks the Barrier!

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Disclose Notes: On the page between page 8 and page 9 of the previous story sequence.
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Feature(s): Green Lantern; Batman
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Pages: 0.33
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Genres: anthropomorphic
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Tom Dietz, Mike Friedrich (future comics writer and publisher), Danny McComas, Mark Dillman, and Annette Richards.
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The Counterfeit Crime-Buster!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Batman (guest star)
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly #4 published August 1965
as The Counterfeit Crime-Buster! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: The Elongated Man #1 published September 2006
as The Counterfeit Crime-Buster! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8.67
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[untitled]

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: On the page between page 2 and page 3 of the previous story sequence.
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): 80 Page Giant; Superboy
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: On the page between page 4 and page 5 of the previous story sequence.
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[untitled]

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Disclose Notes: On the page between page 4 and page 5 of the previous story sequence.
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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Showcase; The Atom
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Pages: 0.33
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10 Issues of Detective for Only $1.00

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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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