Features Catalog Stores Pricing

The Collector

Know every issue. Keep every story. Built for collectors who want evidence, not hype.

Product

Features
Pricing
Catalog
New releases
Store directory

For stores

List your shop
Seller fees

Company

Help and contact
Privacy
Terms
Data sources
Copyright requests

© 2026 The Collector

Catalog data from Metron, the Grand Comics Database and cataloggd, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Cover images © their respective publishers, shown to identify each issue.

Sign in Start free

Batman #104 (1956) · The Collector

Catalog
Batman (1940)
#104

DC Comics#104

Batman

Previous issue, #103 All issues Next issue, #105

Batman #104

The Man Who Knew Batman's Secret! / Robin's 50 Batman Partners / The Creature from 20,000 Fathoms

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: December 1956
On sale: Oct 9, 1956
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Add to collection Add to wishlist

Editions and variants

Cover, printing and newsstand or direct distribution are what make two copies of one issue different books.

1 recorded

Main editionMain
Printing not stated · $0.10
No barcode recorded

Credits

Writers: Edmond Hamilton, Henry Boltinoff, Bill Finger
Pencillers: Sheldon Moldoff, Dick Sprang, Henry Boltinoff
Inkers: Charles Paris, Henry Boltinoff
Letterers

Sources

Grand Comics Database issue 13201

Catalog data from the Grand Comics Database is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 and was normalized by The Collector. Cover images belong to their publishers.

Batman is seeking to capture John Varden, but the wily criminal eludes him. Meanwhile, an out-of-town detective named Crane enters the picture, accidentally discovering Batman's true identity, a fact well publicized by the media.

Pat Gordon, Henry Boltinoff

Cover

Sheldon Moldoff

Editor

Whitney Ellsworth

Cover letters

Ira Schnapp

Characters

Alfred Pennyworth
Batman
Casey the Cop
Commissioner James Gordon
Devoe
Fergus
John Varden
Robin
Sloan
The 50 Fathoms Club [Professor John Briggs
The Sparkles Grady mob
undersea creature
unnamed President of Mammoth Movie Company
Varden's gang

No collectors have logged this issue yet.

Value

No value yet

We publish a value only when at least five collectors have recorded an anonymized price for a grade band, and always show how many. Logging what you paid helps.

Available at stores

No stores list this issue right now

Shops on The Collector post their shelves here. Add it to your wishlist and you will hear when a copy shows up.