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Detective Comics #452 (1975) · The Collector

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Detective Comics (1937)
#452

DC Comics#452

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Detective Comics #452

Crackdown on the Crime Exchange / The Curse of the Ancient Weapons!

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: October 1975
On sale: Jul 31, 1975
Cover price: $0.25
Pages: 36

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Credits

Writers: David Vern, E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencillers: Ernie Chan, José Luis García-López
Inkers: Mike Royer, José Luis García-López
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Grand Comics Database issue 29150

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After Batman fails to prevent a gold-coin theft and its perpetrators' escape, this proves to be the first in a wave of crimes carried out by highly specialised crooks. Realising an organisation must lie behind the crimewave, Batman embarks on a bold plan. Infiltrating the set-up - the Crime Exchange, an agency providing the right crook for the right crime - he allows himself to be captured so as to make contact with the Exchange's secret President. Claiming to be a reporter disguised as the Batman, he's given a test: pick up and fire a gun, something the REAL Batman has sworn never to do.

Mike Royer, Milt Snapinn

Cover

Ernie Chan

Cover colors

Tatjana Wood

Editor

Julius Schwartz

Assistant editor

Bob Rozakis

Associate editor

E. Nelson Bridwell

Characters

Batman
Hawkman
Jack Kirby· Cameo
James Gordon
Konrad Koslak
Shiera Hall]
Stan Lee· Cameo
The Crime Exchange
Walter Grimes
Yak

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