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Issue: Detective Comics #125
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Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 05/21/1947
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 31 (5 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 Citadel of Crime

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Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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FlagBatman Archives #6 published August 2005
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Kodak
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Never Miss - Do You, Champ?

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two fellows
We simply couldn't get along without you or your snaps!
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The Citadel of Crime!

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Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Batman [Bruce Wayne] [also as Tom Horne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Dan Briggs (ex-con, death); Tom Horne (ex-con); Smith (villain); The Thinker (villain, death)
Commissioner Gordon asks Batman to investigate when a series of cons are released from prison and suddenly disappear. The Caped Crusader discovers, after going undercover, that a criminal named the Thinker is gathering and using them to manufacture parts for equipment to be used by the underworld.
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Dave Ferriss

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Wheaties
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Kid Pep Rescues a Steeplejack!

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Kellogg's Pep
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Dave Ferriss

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sports
Dave Ferriss (baseball pitcher, b. 1921 d. 2016)
But how about our slugging average?
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Prosecutor by Proxy!

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Air Wave [Larry Jordan]
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Jack Treddle Gets Hero's Medal

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Another Jim Wise Real-Life Sports Story; "P-F" Canvas Shoes
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Kid Pep Rescues a Steeplejack!

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Kid Pep; steeplejack; waiter; policeman
Look! The steeplejack's caught in his rope!
A worker is caught in his rope and hangs upside down on a church steeple.
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Columbia
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The Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream-Oil
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Jack Treddle Gets Hero's Medal

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Jim Wise; Jack Treddle; Fred
It was mighty lucky the troop decided to hike that day...
Jack, running faster in P-F canvas shoes, saves the town of Haddonfield from a dam about to collapse.
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Fireman, Save My Child!

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Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
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Spalding
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Ace Pilots

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aviation, childrens
Captain Ormond M. Gove (famous TWA pilot)
Yes sir! Knowing the traffic rules of the air...
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Outwitting the Kidnappers

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"U. S." Royal; U. S. Bike Tires
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Effie; police officer; unnamed murderer
Lay off the Wildroot Cream-Oil, Sam-
Sam cracks the Davis murder case.
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Post's Grape-Nuts
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Safety in Numbers

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Dapper Jack's Dream

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Famous Sport Flops; Thom McAn
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[untitled]

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Daisy Air Rifles
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Editorial Advisory Board

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A list of advocates which includes Dr. Lauretta Bender, Josette Frank, Dr. C. Bowie Millican, Dr. W. W. D. Sones and Dr. S. Harcourt Peppard.
Followed by a list of 26 current DC comic book publications.
W. W. D. Sones is also credited with scripting numerous 'Picture Stories from American History' for DC and EC comics publications.
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Learn Inside Baseball from Big League Stars

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George Henry "Snuffy" Stirnweiss (baseball player, b. 1918, d. 1958)
You'll star on the bases - be the envy of your team -
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Mail order ad for the book 'Circling the Bases' from A. G. Spalding & Bros., Dept. B, 19 Beckman Street, New York 8, New York.
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Outwitting the Kidnappers

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adventure, crime
"U. S." Royal; two boys of the Elm City Bike Club; two kidnappers; kidnapped girl; two policemen
When they find that ransom note, I'll be sittin' pretty...
Upon hearing a police radio flash about a kidnapping, "U. S." Royal sets up a traffic jam trap to catch the kidnappers.
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When Hitler Came Back!

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The Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Alfy Twidgett; Andre Chavard; Brooklyn [Dan Turpin]; Jan Haasan]
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Ready Now... Your Own Circus!

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Wow, what a show you can give with a home circus like this!
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Mail order ad for a die-cut lithographed durable cardboard circus for ten cents and one Grape Nuts box top from Post's Cereals Circus, Box 259-A, Battle Creek, Michigan.
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Dapper Jack's Dream

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Dapper Jack; unnamed current champ; coach
Out of the story-packed sports past...
Dapper Jack loses the fight while day-dreaming about winning the fight.
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A fictional story based remotely on "Dapper" Jack Johnson (b. 1878), an African-American boxer. The "Dapper Jack" in this story is white.
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Get This Handy 128 Page Daisy Handbook Pronto, Partner!

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western
You'll receive a comic book plus a popular...
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Captain Tootsie Saves the School Party

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C'mon, gang! Let's drop into the gym an' see how the cooking class is doing with their set-up for the school party!
Kids from a rival school try to ruin an award sock hop party by stealing the ice cream and Tootsie Rolls. Captain Tootsie tracks them down and saves the ice cream and also replaces the Tootsie Rolls the thieves had eaten.
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