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Issue Details

Issue #40
Published April-May 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Burnley (verified by Burnley)
Inks Charles Paris (verified by Paris)
Letters Ira Schnapp (credit by O'Hearn/Desris)

12 page Batman story "The 13 Club!"

Characters The Joker (Villain)
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Inks Gene McDonald (verified by Sprang)
Letters Joe Letterese ?

13 page Batman story "The Case of Batman II"

Characters Beetle Boles (Villain; Intro); Henry Bush (Villain; Intro)
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Inks Gene McDonald (verified by Sprang)
Letters Joe Letterese ?

2 page text story "Melody of Murder"

Script Tom Neill
Letters typeset

2 page Prof. Pipp filler

Genre gag
Script Jack Farr
Pencils Jack Farr
Inks Jack Farr

13 page Batman story "The Grand Opera Murders!"

Characters Colin Vanning (Villain; Intro; Death)
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Sprang (verified by Sprang)
Inks Gene McDonald (verified by Sprang)
Letters Joe Letterese ?