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Batman #86 (1954) · The Collector

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Batman (1940)
#86

DC Comics#86

Batman

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Batman #86

The Voyage of the First Batmarine! / The Joker's Winning Team! / Batman -- Indian Chief!

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: September 1954
On sale: Jul 12, 1954
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 44

Key issue

1st appearance of Chief Man-of-the-Bats
1st appearance of Little Raven

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Credits

Writers: Edmond Hamilton, Bill Woolfolk, Henry Boltinoff, Ed Herron
Pencillers: Dick Sprang, Sheldon Moldoff, Henry Boltinoff
Inkers: Charles Paris, Stan Kaye, Henry Boltinoff
Letterers

Sources

Grand Comics Database issue 11528

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After volunteering to become divers to remove explosives underwater at great depths, the Dynamic Duo are unable to properly rise to the surface slowly enough to prevent the bends. So they turn an ordinary submarine into a Bat-Marine and fight the criminal element under Slant Stacy successfully until the master criminal finds a way to get Batman out of the water, hoping he will die from the bends.

Pat Gordon, Henry Boltinoff

Cover

Win Mortimer

Cover letters

Ira Schnapp

Others

Whitney Ellsworth, Jack Schiff

Characters

Chief Man-of-the-Bats· 1st appearance
Little Raven· 1st appearance
also as Little Raven]
also as Man-of-the-Bats]
Arson Al
Batman
Batman [Bruce Wayne
Biff
Black Elk
Casey the Cop
Commissioner James Gordon
Jerry the Jitterbug
Joker's gang [Lefty
Lantern Jaw
Percival Denhem
rest unnamed]
Robin
Robin [Dick Grayson
Slant Stacy
Slugg
Slugger Daniels
Socks
Stacy's gang
The Joker

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