Batman #76

Published
September 1956
Page count
32
Cover price
1/- [0-1-0 AUP]
Colour
Colour
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Matte colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
Branding
Colour Comics Pty Ltd
 
Colour Comics Pty Ltd

Credits

Editing
, editor

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover The 10,000 Secrets of Batman (Batman and Robin) Cover, 1 page

"That ripple you heard couldn't have been Batman and Robin! It must have been a fish!"

Featuring

Feature
Batman and Robin
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Mart Mathers

Credits

Art
Win Mortimer, line art [as Winslow Mortimer]
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
 
Jack Schiff, original editor [attributed] (actual)

Reprint history

First print
United States
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #229 (March 1956)
The 10,000 Secrets of Batman!
Also printed
United Kingdom
Batman (Colour Comics, 1956 series) #76 (September 1956)
The 10,000 Secrets of Batman
Show/hide 1. The 10,000 Secrets of Batman! (Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder) Comic story, 12 pages

Featuring

Feature
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon (cameo); John Creeden (villain); Mart Mathers (villain)

Credits

Art
Dick Sprang, penciller [as Bob Kane]
 
Charles Paris, inker
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
 
Jack Schiff, original editor [attributed] (actual)

Reprint history

First print
United States
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #229 (March 1956)
The 10,000 Secrets of Batman!
Also printed
United Kingdom
Batman (Colour Comics, 1956 series) #76 (September 1956)
The 10,000 Secrets of Batman

Synopsis

When the Caped Crusaders agree to allow a TV broadcast from the Bat-Cave, Batman discovers to his horror that his microfilm files have been stolen, something that could be of tremendous value to the criminal underworld.

Show/hide 2. The Joust of Jeopardy! (The Green Arrow) Comic story, 10 pages

Featuring

Feature
The Green Arrow
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]

Credits

Art
George Papp, line art
Text
Pat Gordon, letterer
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, editor [credited]
 
Mort Weisinger, Story Editor
 
George Kashdan, Story Editor
Management
Jack Schiff, Managing Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #70 (May-June 1954)
The Joust of Jeopardy!
Show/hide 3. Secret of the Batmobile (Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder) Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Feature
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Writing
Bill Finger, scripter
Art
Sheldon Moldoff, penciller
 
Charles Paris, inker
Text
Pat Gordon, letterer
Editing
Jack Schiff, original editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Batman (DC, 1940 series) #98 (March 1956)
Secret of the Batmobile
Also printed
United States
Batman (DC, 1940 series) #203 (August 1968)
The Secret of the Batmobile
 
Australia
Giant Batman Album (Colour Comics, 1962 series) #17 ([March 1969?])
Secret of the Batmobile

Synopsis

Vicki Vale unwittingly discovers the true identity of the Batman without knowing it when she takes a photo of the Batmobile after it's engine was damaged.

Notes

This story finishes on the back cover. The inside back cover is an advertisement.


Notes

The inside back cover of this issue is an advertisement with the indicia, between pages 7 and 8 of the last story.

Status

This issue includes help from

  • Book Palace

AusReprints ID

  • 2154

Entry created

  • 04/01/2005

Cover added

  • 02/10/2015

Index completed

  • 02/10/2015

Last updated

  • 08/04/2019