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Issue: Detective Comics #452
Publication Date: October 1975
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Issues: #452 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: The Line of DC Super-StarsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/31/1975
Volume: 39
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 Series) #120. This issue accidentally left the Comics Code seal off the 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
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Walter Grimes; Yak; Hawkman [Carter Hall] (head shot)
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-2087
Disclose Notes: Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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Crackdown on the Crime Exchange

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; James Gordon; Walter Grimes; Yak; The Crime Exchange; Stan Lee (unnamed cameo page 8, panel 1); Jack Kirby (unnamed cameo page 8, panel 1)
Synopsis: After Batman fails to prevent a gold-coin theft and its perpetrators' escape, this proves to be the first in a wave of crimes carried out by highly specialised crooks. Realising an organisation must lie behind the crimewave, Batman embarks on a bold plan. Infiltrating the set-up - the Crime Exchange, an agency providing the right crook for the right crime - he allows himself to be captured so as to make contact with the Exchange's secret President. Claiming to be a reporter disguised as the Batman, he's given a test: pick up and fire a gun, something the REAL Batman has sworn never to do.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLynvingen #7/1978 published January 1978
as Kampanjen mot forbryterbørsen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLäderlappen #8/1978 published July 1978
as Brottsvåg över Gotham City [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
Job Number: S-2045
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Two men who look like Stan and Jack appear as unnamed members of The Crime Exchange. Story continues in Detective Comics #453.
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Minerva Menace

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Captain Marvel [Billy Batson]; Aunt Minerva
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Pages: 1
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The Curse of the Ancient Weapons!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hawkman [Carter Hall]; Shiera Hall [Hawkgirl]; Konrad Koslak
Synopsis: While overseeing delivery of a collection of antiquities as Carter Hall, Hawkman finds himself up against a stereotypical wizard (complete with conical hat decorated with stars and moons!). With the aid of his odd raven, and some spells in utterly ungrammatical Latin, the wizard makes off with a stone tablet of incantations - or, rather, his raven does. Carter realises that the wizard was an illusion, and the raven was the real sorcerer, and Shiera alerts him to the recent prison escape of their old foe, Konrad Kaslak. Using a "bird trick" of his own, Hawkman dupes Kaslak and defeats him.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagWundergirl #9 published January 1977
as Fluch der alten Waffen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGigant #3/1979 published May 1979
as De antika vapnens förbannelse [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGigant #3/1979 published June 1979
as De gamle våpnenes forbannelse! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: S-2023
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Shiera Hall does not appear as Hawkgirl in this issue.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Job Number: S-2093
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Tom Scott, Mike White, Brenda Wang, Rudy Rankins, Mike Dargay, Lynn Scharbow, Rex Munsee and Stephan G. Kravitz.

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