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Issue: Detective Comics #432
Publication Date: February 1973
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Issues: #432 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [circle]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/28/1972
Volume: 37
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 16 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #91.
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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 Great Rip-Off Mystery

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman
First Line: Why would anyone steal a million dollars - - and then rip it in half?
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman #11/1973 published May 1973
as kein Titel [Illustration on Cover, Front][USA]
In Content Item: FlagLäderlappen #8/1974 published January 1974
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagLynvingen #7/1974 published July 1974
as Seddelmysteriet [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
Job Number: S-1399
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In 1894, a boy had to learn to act like a man.

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First Line: Daisy's 1894 B-B gun teaches the same lessons.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Interior front cover.
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The Great Rip-Off Mystery!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman; James Gordon; Andrew Willis
First Line: Powerful hands that can tear massive phonebooks apart become precise instruments of calculated destruction...
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman #11/1973 published May 1973
as Zweimal eine Halbe Million [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLäderlappen #8/1974 published January 1974
as Sedelmysteriet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLynvingen #7/1974 published July 1974
as Seddelmysteriet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 15
Job Number: S-1369
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Sally Visits the Easy-Bake Oven Toy Factory

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First Line: ...and this is where Kenner makes the greatest girl's toy since dolls!
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Never Finished High School?

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First Line: Now you can get a diploma without going back
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Big News from DC

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First Line: By popular demand!
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Disclose Notes: Promotional advertisement for 100 Page Super Spectacular comics.
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[untitled]

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Pages: 1
Job Number: S-1407
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Jim Michaels, Lon Wolfe, James Balko, Mike W. Barr and James T. McCoy.
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$2 each. Buy 2 get one free!

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First Line: 33 1/3 r.p.m., LP stereo albums play over 30 minutes of great music each.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Sold by Mirobar Sales Corp.
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Suddenly... the Witness Vanished!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Atom [Ray Palmer]; Henry Norton; Jean Loring; Professor Alpheus V. Hyatt
First Line: Fate weaves its fabric in strange loops and swirls through time and space.
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In Content Item: FlagGigant #1/1975 published January 1975
as Tjuven som försvann [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagJustice League of America Super Spectacular No. 1, 1975 Issue #[nn] published May 1999
as Suddenly... the Witness Vanished! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Job Number: S-1372
Disclose Notes: Feature continues in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #425.
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The Adventures of Corgi Boy

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Disclose Notes: Horizontal advertisement in a vertical formatted page.
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Novelty ads

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Disclose Notes: Full page of individual novelty advertisements with an ordering coupon.
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These 3 Big Drafting Kits Given To You

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First Line: Coast-to-coast shortage of trained draftsmen
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for a career in drafting.
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Monster Size Monsters

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Frankenstein's monster
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Sold by Honor House Products.
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100 Pc. Toy Soldier Set

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First Line: Made of durable plastic, each with its own base.
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Don't Be Half a Man!

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First Line: Let me show you how I can make you a real he-man from head to toe...
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Disclose Notes: Interior back cover advertisement for a home bodybuilding offer. Features the comic strip "The Insult that Made a Man out of 'Mac'".
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[untitled]

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First Line: Get into the Aurora/Factory Experimentals.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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