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BHOC: DC SPECIAL #14

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From "The Menace from the Stars!" in World's Finest Comics #68, January-February 1954. Bill Woolfolk script, Wayne Boring pencils, Stan Kaye inks, Pat Gordon (?) letters.

Info from Grand Comics Database

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The Human Torch and Toro by Gene Colan

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The Spirit #1: Dressed to Kill

by Bill Woolfolk; Lou Fine; Alex Kotzky and Martin DeMuth

Quality Comics

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BATMAN #86 -   September 1954

Cover Art:   Win Mortimer

THE VOYAGE OF THE FIRST BATMARINE

Script:  Ed Hamilton

Art:  Dick Sprang (Pencils), Charles Paris (Inks), Pat Gordon (Letters)

Characters:  Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Slant Stacy (villain, inroduction); Stacy's gang (villains, introduction for all)

Synopsis:  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.

Batman story #615

THE JOKER’S WINNING TEAM

Script: Bill Woolfolk

Art:    Sheldon Moldoff (Pencils), Stan Kaye (Inks), Pat Gordon (Letters)

Characters:  Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Slugger Daniels; The Joker (villain); Joker's gang [Lefty; Socks; Lantern Jaw; Arson Al; Percival Denhem; rest unnamed] (villains)

Synopsis: A baseball game inspires the Joker to become a manager of crime, as he decides to "trade" various crooks for others who have specialized talents that he can use to commit various crimes.

Batman story #616

BATMAN -- INDIAN CHIEF

Script: Ed Herron

Art:   Sheldon Moldoff as “Bob Kane” (Pencils), Stan Kaye (Inks), Pat Gordon (Letters)

Characters:  Batman [Bruce Wayne; also as Man-of-the-Bats]; Robin [Dick Grayson; also as Little Raven]; Chief Man-of-the-Bats [Great Eagle] (introduction); Little Raven [Little Eagle] (introduction); Black Elk (villain, introduction)

Synopsis:  The Dynamic Duo come upon a duo dressing very much the same as the famed Batman and Robin, these being an Indian version. They are asked by the wounded "Man-of-the-Bats" to substitute for he and his fighting aide in battling against Black Elk, who has been terrorizing the countryside, and who suspects Man-of-the-Bats and Great Eagle to be the same man.

Batman story #617

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Batman #45 (February/March 1948) Written by Bill Woolfolk, art by Charles Paris

With Batman more firmly on the side of the law from the mid-1940s on, Catwoman found herself in prison quite often. Luckily, she was excellent at escaping. Sometimes her escapes were complicated and involved her goons sneaking in chemicals or disguises. Other times she just made a run for it and dove off the walls of the prison into the waters below, as she did in this outing. Catwoman was incensed because a new book about female rogues had left her out, so she wanted to up her profile with a big heist and leapt into the river to go do so.

**The Many Lives of Catwoman: The Felonious History of a Feline Fatale is out July 1**

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SHAZAM #13

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BC: SHAZAM #21

And finally we arrive at the nadir of the SHAZAM run that I was experiencing all at once thanks to it having been loaned to me by my grade school buddy Donald Sims. Sales on the series had clearly been poor, and yet the character was starring in a successful Saturday morning live action series. Consequently, DC didn’t want to cancel the book. So they did the next best thing: they reduced its…

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