Detective Comics #267

DC Comics

United States

Published
May 1959
Page count
36
Cover price
0.10 USD
Colour
Colour
Format
Comic series
GCD
www.comics.org/issue/15035

Credits

Editing
Jack Schiff (Editor)
Murray Boltinoff (Associate Editor)
George Kashdan (Associate Editor)

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover Batman Meets Bat-Mite! (Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder) Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Bat-Mite (supporting)

Credits

Pencils
Curt Swan
Inks
Stan Kaye
Show/hide 1. Batman Meets Bat-Mite (Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder) Comic story, 11.67 pages

Featuring

Feature
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Bat-Mite (intro, supporting); Tipper Neely (intro, villain); The Yellow Gloves Gang (intro, villain)

Credits

Script
Bill Finger
Pencils
Sheldon Moldoff
Inks
Charles Paris

Synopsis

Preparing to go off on patrol, Batman and Robin find the Bat-Cave disturbed and meet Bat-Mite, an admirer of Batman's from another dimension. Bat-Mite wants to join Batman and Robin in their fight against crime, but Batman politely convinces Bat-Mite that that won't work. Instead, Bat-Mite tries to make Batman and Robin's exploits a little more entertaining, a little more "fun." In the end, Batman finds a way to make Bat-Mite useful, which lets the imp know it's time to go home.

Show/hide 2. Tootsie Roll ad Advertisement, 0.33 pages
Show/hide 3. Showcase #20 Promo (ad from the publisher), 1 page
Show/hide 4. Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself? Public service announcement, 1 page

Credits

Script
Jack Schiff
Art
Bernard Baily
Letters
Ira Schnapp

Reprint history

First print
United States
Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #335 (March 1966)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
Also printed
United States
Sergeant Bilko (DC, 1957 series) #13 (May-June 1959)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #20 (May 1959)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #101 (May 1959)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #9 (May 1959)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
Blackhawk (DC, 1957 series) #136 (May 1959)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #260 (May 1959)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #20 (May-June 1959)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
The Adventures of Jerry Lewis (DC, 1957 series) #52 (May-June 1959)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
Western Comics (DC, 1948 series) #75 (May-June 1959)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
Tomahawk (DC, 1950 series) #103 (March-April 1966)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
Green Lantern (DC, 1960 series) #43 (March 1966)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
Teen Titans (DC, 1966 series) #2 (March-April 1966)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
Metamorpho (DC, 1965 series) #5 (March-April 1966)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
House of Mystery (DC, 1951 series) #157 (March 1966)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #156 (March 1966)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #349 (March 1966)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
United States
Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #61 (March-April 1966)
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
Australia
Giant Lois Lane Album (Colour Comics, 1964 series) #6 ([June 1969])
Do You Make Life Hard for Yourself?
 
Australia
Giant Lois Lane Album (Colour Comics, 1964 series) #6 ([June 1969])
 
Australia
All Favourites Comic (KG Murray, 1973 series) #103 ([July 1974?])
Show/hide 5. Warden Willis (Warden Willis) Comic story, 1 page

"Warden, that mattress is old and lumpy."

Featuring

Feature
Warden Willis
Genre
Gag
Characters
Warden Willis

Credits

Script
Henry Boltinoff
Art
Henry Boltinoff
Letters
Henry Boltinoff

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
Colossal Comic (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #36 ([February 1966?])
Untitled
 
Australia
Mighty Comic (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #53 ([June 1966?])
Warden Willis
Show/hide 6. The Mystery of the Magic Sea! (Roy Raymond TV Detective) Comic story, 5.67 pages

Featuring

Feature
Roy Raymond TV Detective
Genre
Detective
Characters
Roy Raymond; Karen (supporting); Otto Wile (intro, villain)

Credits

Art
Ruben Moreira

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
The Hundred Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1956 series) #36 ([September 1959?])
The Mystery of the Magic Sea

Synopsis

When an earthquake exposes a portion of an underground sea, a small town hopes it will be a boon to its tourism business. But a legend warns that if a person swims too deep in the water, he'll turn into a fish. Roy Raymond films the attempts of two townspeople to disprove the legend for Impossible but True, but in both cases, when underwater, a strange underwater cloud envelops them. They disappear, and a fish appears in their place. Noticing a whale amongst all the other ocean life, Roy decides to try it himself. Though Roy disappears and a fish appears in his place, the TV detective has actually gone inside the whale and found the men behind the scheme. He became suspicious when he noticed that the whale never came to the surface to breathe, and finds that the legend was a ploy to scare people away from the lake bed, which is covered with treasure.

Show/hide 7. Tootsie Roll Pops ad Advertisement, 0.33 pages
Show/hide 8. Alibi by Telephone Text story, 1 page

Credits

Author
Letters
typeset
Show/hide 9. Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros Circus at Palisades Amusement Park Advertisement, 1 page

Featuring

Characters
Superman; Emmett Kelly
Show/hide 10. John Jones' Farewell to Earth (John Jones Manhunter from Mars) Comic story, 6.67 pages

Featuring

Feature
John Jones Manhunter from Mars
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Martian Manhunter [John Jones; J'onn J'onzz]; Captain Harding (supporting); S'vor (intro, villain); Jovians (intro)

Credits

Script
Jack Miller ?
Art
Joe Certa

Reprint history

Also printed
Australia
The Hundred Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1956 series) #37 ([October 1959?])
John Jones' Farewell to Earth
 
Australia
Mighty Comic (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #73 ([October 1969?])
John Jones' Farewell to Earth
 
United States
Showcase Presents: Martian Manhunter (DC, 2007 series) #1 (2007)
John Jones' Farewell to Earth

Synopsis

Jovians come to Earth searching for a criminal but they need Manhunter's help because their weakness is water and it's raining. Jones agrees to help them in exchange for a ride home.

Notes

Writer ID from Bob Hughes, May 2009.

Show/hide 11. Tootsie Roll Fudge ad Advertisement, 0.33 pages

Status

AusReprints ID

  • 32029

Entry created

  • 12/07/2007

Index completed

  • 13/11/2011

Last updated

  • 13/11/2011