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Issue: Detective Comics #179
Publication Date: January 1952
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Issues: #179 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/28/1951
Volume: none
Pages: 44
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 23 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 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
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Bruce Wayne, Mayor of Gotham City!

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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman; Bruce Wayne
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Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Kodak
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Mayor Bruce Wayne!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson] (cameo); Commissioner James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; Mayor Stokes (Mayor of Gotham City, cameo); Fielding [also as Bruce Wayne] (Mayor Stoke's secretary); Joe P. Abernathy; Deuce Chalmers (villain)
Synopsis: Racketeer Deuce Chalmers has figured out that Bruce Wayne is Batman...the trouble is, how does he prove it? And Bruce has troubles as well with his secret identity since he has been appointed temporary Mayor of Gotham City!
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In Content Item: FlagBatman #193 published July 1967
as Mayor Bruce Wayne! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 12
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What Sparks a Champion Sparks You!

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Feature(s): Wheaties
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Pages: 1
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First Line: Did Magellan go around the world?
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Pages: 0.67
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Feature(s): Charlie Wild, Private Detective; Wildroot Cream-Oil
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Pages: 0.33
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The Luckiest Man on Earth!

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Roy Raymond
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Pages: 5.67
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Feature(s): Riddle Me This; Necco
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Pages: 0.33
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Schwinn
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Genres: childrens
Feature(s): Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum
First Line: Here comes the matador!
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Pages: 0.5
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Disclose Notes: Includes a plug for A Date with Judy on ABC.
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Robotman Crusoe

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Robotman
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Pages: 5.67
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Feature(s): Vitalis Hair Cream
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Pages: 0.33
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Roadmaster
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Frontier Photographer

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure, non-fiction
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The Reforming of Little Elk

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Genres: western
Feature(s): Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman
Character(s): Pow-Wow Smith
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Pages: 7.67
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What Sparks a Champion Sparks You!

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Subject Matter
Feature(s): Wheaties
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Pages: 0.33
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Casey the Cop
First Line: It's so quiet today.
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Feature(s): Smith Brothers Cough Drops
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Fixing this car is a big job...
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Electric Football
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Missouri Marathon

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Printed on inside back cover.
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Writer(s): ?
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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