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Batman #74 (1952) · The Collector

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Batman (1940)
#74

DC Comics#74

Batman

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Batman #74

The Crazy Crime Clown! / The Movie That Killed Batman! / The Water Crimes of Mr. Hydro!

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: December 1952
On sale: Oct 22, 1952
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 44

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Credits

Writers: Al Schwartz, Henry Boltinoff, Bill Finger
Pencillers: Dick Sprang, Henry Boltinoff, Bob Kane, Lew Sayre Schwartz
Inkers: Charles Paris, Henry Boltinoff, Ray Burnley, Stan Kaye
Letterers

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Grand Comics Database issue 10206

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When the Joker commits seemingly crazy crimes he is sentenced to an insane asylum. Batman realizes it is a ruse to get close to a patient who knows where a fortune is buried, so Batman goes undercover as a patient in the asylum to expose the Joker.

Ira Schnapp, Pat Gordon, Henry Boltinoff

Cover

Win Mortimer

Editor

Whitney Ellsworth

Cover letters

Ira Schnapp

Other

Jack Schiff

Characters

Alfred
also as Minos the Mind Reader]
Batman
Batman [Bruce Wayne
Casey the Cop
Champ Dexter
Commissioner James Gordon
Dr. Reed
Franz the Strangler
James Derek
James Hobbles
Jerry the Jitterbug
Little Pete
Mr. Bromley
Mr. Hydro
Mrs. Bromley
Mrs. Hobbles
Muggsy O'Doul
Robin
Sarge
Skid Turkel
Susan
The Joker
unnamed judge
unnamed police officer
unnamed psychiatrist
Varsity Vic
Wingate

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