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Issue: Detective Comics #79
Publication Date: September 1943
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Issues: #79 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/20/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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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Destiny's Auction!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
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In Content Item: FlagBatman Archives #3 [unnamed variant] published January 1993
as Cover - Detective Comics #79 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Pages: 0.33
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Augustus Helps the Army

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Genres: non-fiction, opinion
Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Pages: 0.67
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Destiny's Auction!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Madame Calagra (seeress); Judy O'Casson (a dramatist); Tremaine Wentworth (actor); Mrs. Midge (Judy's landlady); Diamond Pete Ransome (villain); Ransome's gang [Lefty; other unnamed] (villains)
Synopsis: Three people who visit a gypsy fortune teller have their fates read, and it seems to the positive. However, negative situations befall each of them with each of them leaving their belongings in a trunk. Batman and Robin follow these individuals as they buy what they believe to be their trunks back at auction, thus, in a round-about way, fulfilling the fortunes of the seer they all once visited.
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In Content Item: FlagBatman Archives #3 [unnamed variant] published January 1993
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Pages: 12
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[untitled]

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First Line: Be sure to get these top favorites for the best in comics!
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Two Tickets to Trouble!

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan
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Like Action? Here's Plenty of It!

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Genres: adventure, war
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The Case of the Advertising Crook!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Wing; Adder (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 10
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Are You "Pre-Flight" Material?

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Return to Pride

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Genres: adventure
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The Tenderfoot Gets Tough!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Air Wave [Larry Jordan]; Static; Spur Sanders; Zeke Mullins
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Life's Little Laffs
First Line: Ya got him licked...
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Time Marches Bow-Legged!

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): History
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The Duce Gets a Hotfoot

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Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn [Dan Turpin]; Jan Haasan; Alfy Twidgett; Andre Chavard]; Professor Ferno
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Pages: 12
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[untitled]

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[untitled]

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Feature(s): Metro Publications
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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