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Issue Details

Issue #156
Published June 1963
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Jack Schiff

Cover Details - "Robin Dies at Dawn"

Characters Batman; Robin
Genre superhero
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Letters Gaspar Saladino?
Reprinted in Batman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #73-168329; In The Batman Gallery (DC) #1 (1992).

1 page public service announcement "Not Wanted: High School Dropouts!"

Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff?
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff?
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Letters Ira Schnapp

7 page Batman story "The Secret of the Ant-Man"

Characters Batman {Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Bat-Hound; Ant-Man [Jumbo Carson]; V: Al Welles
Synopsis After Batman announces that he is going away on a secret Government mission, a pint-sized crime fighter by the name of Ant-Man pops up to help him out, but the Boy Wonder wrongly guesses that it is Batman in disguise.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger (credit by O'Hearn)
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Letters David Huffine?
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-23-07.
Reprinted In Batman (DC, 1940 series) #185 (October-November 1966); in Lynvingen (Se-Bladene, 1966 series) #11/1967

1 page True Crime Laffs filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

16 page Batman story "Robin Dies at Dawn"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred; Ace the Bat-Hound; Gorilla Gang (introduction)
Synopsis Batman undergoes a test simulation for a situation that astronauts may one day face alone in outer space, and during that simulation he sees Robin dies. After the test is over, Batman faces the terrible side-effects of his simulation, believing that Robin will actually die, and it so complicates his fight against crime, he decides to retire!
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger (credit by O'Hearn)
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff (as Bob Kane)
Inks Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Letters Stan Starkman
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-23-07.
Reprinted In Batman (DC, 1940 series) #185 (October-November 1966); in Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1988 series) #nn [1]; in Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #nn [1]; in Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told, The (Warner Books, 1989 series) #[nn]; in Batman: The Black Casebook (DC, 2009 series) #[nn]