Batman #87
Colour Comics Pty. Ltd.
Australia.
![Batman (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #87 ([August 1957])](/image/47521/page-1-batman-colour-comics-1950-series-87-the-grown-up-boy-wonder.jpg "Batman (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #87 ([August 1957])")
- Published
- August 1957
- Page count
- 32
- Cover price
- 6d [0-0-6 GBP]
- Colour
- Black & white
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Matte colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- Branding
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Colour Comics Pty Ltd
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Credits
- Editing
- , editor
This issue is a variant of:
Issue contents
Cover
The Grown-Up Boy Wonder!
(Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder)
Cover, 1 page
"32 pages "It's Batman! And that fellow who's taken Robin's place--Owlman!" "They don't know I'm really Robin!" A strange experiment brings about an amazing change in… "The Grown-Up Boy Wonder!""
Featuring
- Feature
- Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Art
- Sheldon Moldoff, line art
Reprint history
- First print
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Batman (DC, 1940 series) #107 (April 1957)
- Also printed
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Batman (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #87 ([August 1957])
1"...And this date is out of this world--"
Featuring
- Feature
- Peg
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
- Writing
- Henry Boltinoff, scripter
- Art
- Henry Boltinoff, line art
Reprint history
2Featuring
- Feature
- Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Writing
- Bill Finger, scripter
- Art
- Sheldon Moldoff, penciller [signed as Bob Kane]
- Stan Kaye, inker
- Text
- Pat Gordon, letterer
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth, editor
Reprint history
- First print
-
Batman (DC, 1940 series) #107 (April 1957) — The Grown-Up Boy Wonder
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Batman (DC, 1940 series) #107 (April 1957)
- Also printed
-
Batman (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #87 ([August 1957])
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Batman (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #87 ([August 1957]) — The Grown-Up Boy Wonder
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Batman (Colour Comics, 1952 series) #87 ([August 1957])
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Batman Annual (DC, 1961 series) #5 (Summer 1963)
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Batman Annual (DC, 1961 series) #5 (Summer 1963) — The Grown-Up Boy Wonder
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Giant Batman Album (Colour Comics, 1962 series) #5 ([June 1964?])
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Giant Batman Album (Colour Comics, 1962 series) #5 ([June 1964?]) — The Grown-Up Boy Wonder
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DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals (DC, 2009 series) #2 ([August] 2010) — The Grown-Up Boy Wonder
Synopsis
While examining a lead-lined box Superman had brought back from outer space, Dick accidently touches a release, emitting a gas that causes him to grow bodily into manhood, thus forcing him to give up his Robin personna and adopting a different crime fighting ID.
3"I'd like to open a bank account!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Ollie
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
- Writing
- Henry Boltinoff, scripter
- Art
- Henry Boltinoff, line art
Reprint history
4Featuring
- Feature
- The Green Arrow
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Art
- George Papp, line art
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth, editor [credited]
- Jack Schiff, editor [attributed] (actual)
Reprint history
- First print
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World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #55 (December-January 1952) — The Case of the Taunting Targets
- Also printed
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World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #55 (December-January 1952)
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Batman (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #87 ([August 1957])
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Batman (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #87 ([August 1957]) — The Case of the Taunting Targets
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Batman (Colour Comics, 1952 series) #87 ([August 1957])
Synopsis
Beetle Brogran hides stolen radium in GA's arrows and then tries to get GA to shoot at him so he can get the arrows back.
5"Amazing! Oh, there's no pain involved it's all a state of mind!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Moolah the Mystic
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
- Writing
- Henry Boltinoff, scripter
- Art
- Henry Boltinoff, line art
Reprint history
6Featuring
- Feature
- Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Writing
- Arnold Drake , scripter
- Art
- Sheldon Moldoff, penciller
- Charles Paris, inker
- Text
- Pat Gordon, letterer
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth, editor
Reprint history
- First print
-
Batman (DC, 1940 series) #105 (February 1957) — The Mysterious Bat-Missile
- Also printed
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Batman (DC, 1940 series) #105 (February 1957)
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Batman (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #87 ([August 1957])
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Batman (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #87 ([August 1957]) — The Mysterious Bat-Missile
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Batman (Colour Comics, 1952 series) #87 ([August 1957])
7"How do you do sir? I'm selling subscriptions to this magazine!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Shorty
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
- Writing
- Henry Boltinoff, scripter
- Art
- Henry Boltinoff, line art
Reprint history
Indicia
Printed by Sungravure Limited, Mentmore Avenue, Rosebery, for the Proprietors Colour Comics Pty. Ltd. Sydney, and produced by the K. G. Murray Publishing Company Pty. Ltd., 56 Young Street, Sydney. Gordon & Gotch (Australasia) Ltd., distributors for Australia and New Zealand. U.K. Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co. Ltd., 18 Bride Lane, London, E.C.4, England.