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Issue Details

Issue #76
Published June 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), [Jack Schiff]; [Bernie Breslauer]
Notes Colorist credit confirmed from an interview with Jerry Robinson in Alter Ego issue 39 (August 2004) via the GCD errors list by Derek Reinhard on July 26, 2008.

Cover Details - "Slay 'Em With Flowers"

Characters Batman; Robin; The Joker (villain).
Genre superhero
Pencils Jerry Robinson
Inks Jerry Robinson
Colors Jerry Robinson
Notes Colorist credit confirmed from an interview with Jerry Robinson in Alter Ego issue 39 (August 2004) via the GCD errors list by Derek Reinhard on July 26, 2008.
Reprinted In The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #3 (November 1993).

12 page Batman story "Slay 'Em with Flowers"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Jason Johnson; Percy Fillmore; The Joker (villain).
Synopsis After taking over ownership of a flower shop, the Joker and his men use the pretty posies to perpetrate crimes against the wealthy.
Genre superhero
Script Horace L. Gold
Pencils Jerry Robinson
Inks Jerry Robinson
Colors Jerry Robinson
Letters George Roussos
Notes Colorist credit confirmed from an interview with Jerry Robinson in Alter Ego issue 39 (August 2004) via the GCD errors list by Derek Reinhard on July 26, 2008. Some info and synopsis added by Craig Delich 4-6-09.
Reprinted In The Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #3 (November 1993).

12 page The Boy Commandos story "The Invasion of America"

Characters Boy Commandos [Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Alfy; Andre; Jan]; The Sandman (cameo); Sandy (cameo); The Newsboy Legion (cameo); Guardian (cameo); Doktor Gruenigg (villain); Sally Noonan; Slats McGuiness; Kid Commandos; President Franklin Roosevelt (cameo).
Synopsis The Boys are sent on a good will tour of the US as representatives of "four great nations united for the liberation of the world." But the Nazis think it would be a great propaganda victory to kidnap them right in the middle of their celebration.
Genre war; adventure
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Joe Simon
Inks Joe Simon
Reprinted In Mister Miracle (DC, 1971 series) #5 (December 1971); in Brave and The Bold Annual, The (DC, 2001 series) #1

8 page The Crimson Avenger story "The Case of the Lollipop Crimes"

Characters The Crimson Avenger [Lee Travis]; Wing; Charlie Jones; Jerry the Mule; Carson; The Weazel (villain).
Synopsis Gangsters use a candy store to transmit messages to each other.
Genre superhero
Script Jack Lehti (signed)
Pencils Jack Lehti (signed)
Inks Charles Paris
Letters Charles Paris

5 page Spy story "Decks of Doom"

Characters Bart Regan
Genre adventure
Pencils Chuck Winter
Inks Chuck Winter

7 page Air Wave story "The Man who Talked his Crimes"

Characters Air Wave [Larry Jordan]; Static; The Talker (villain).
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils George Roussos (signed)
Inks George Roussos (signed)
Colors George Roussos
Letters George Roussos

2 page text story "Mountain Invasion"

Genre adventure
Script Dan Wallace (signed)
Letters typeset

8 page Slam Bradley story "The Bashful Bandits"

Characters Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan.
Genre detective
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman