Detective Comics #178
DC Comics
United States
- Published
- December 1951
- Page count
- 44
- Cover price
- 0.10 USD
- Colour
- Colour
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/9311
Credits
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
Issue contents
Cover
The Defeat of Batman!
(Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder)
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Art
- Win Mortimer
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth
Reprint history
1Featuring
- Feature
- House of Mystery
Notes
Inside front cover.
2Featuring
- Feature
- Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Pencils
- Bob Kane (Batman & Robin figures)
Lew Schwartz - Inks
- Charles Paris
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
Batman (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #30 ([November 1952]) — The Defeat of Batman
-
Batman (KGM, 1952 series) #30 ([February 1953?]) — The Defeat of Batman!
Notes
Pencil credits verified by Schwartz to Craig Delich; we formerly credited Schwartz with pencils and Kane with touch-ups.
3Featuring
- Feature
- Charlie Wild, Private Detective; Wildroot Cream-Oil
4Featuring
- Feature
- Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll
- Genre
- Superhero
Credits
- Art
- Bill Schreiber
5Featuring
- Feature
- Wheaties
6Featuring
- Feature
- Impossible-- But True
- Genre
- Detective-mystery
- Characters
- Roy Raymond
Credits
- Art
- Ruben Moreira
Reprint history
- Based on
-
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #262 (December 1958) — The Man With the X-Ray Eyes!
- Printed in
-
The Hundred Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1956 series) #32 ([May 1959?]) — The Man with the X-Ray Eyes! (Impossible -- But True)
- Also printed
-
Five-Score Plus Comic Monthly (Colour Comics, 1960 series) #31 ([November 1960])
7Featuring
- Feature
- Out of This World; Necco
8Featuring
- Feature
- Lionel Trains
9Featuring
- Feature
- Kellogg's Pep
10
11Notes
Includes a plug for A Date with Judy on ABC.
12Featuring
- Feature
- Erector
13Featuring
- Feature
- Royal Desserts
14Featuring
- Genre
- Non-fiction
Credits
- Author
- Norman James
- Letters
- typeset
15Featuring
- Feature
- Nabisco Shredded Wheat
- Characters
- Straight Arrow
16"I-it's spooky in this old haunted house!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum
- Genre
- Children
Credits
- Art
- Ray Thompson [as Ray T.]
17"What will you have, Vic?"
Featuring
- Feature
- Varsity Vic
- Genre
- Humor
Credits
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff
- Art
- Henry Boltinoff
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff
Reprint history
18Featuring
- Feature
- Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman
- Genre
- Western-frontier
Credits
- Art
- Leonard Starr
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19Featuring
- Feature
- Vitalis Hair Cream
20Featuring
- Feature
- Columbia
Credits
- Letters
- typeset
21"It's quiet here!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Casey the Cop
- Genre
- Humor
Credits
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff
- Art
- Henry Boltinoff
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff
Reprint history
22Featuring
- Feature
- Daisy Air Rifles
Credits
- Art
- Fred Harman
- Letters
- typeset
Notes
Inside back cover.
23Featuring
- Feature
- Sheaffer's Skrip
Notes
Back cover.
Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Indicia
The indicia for this issue is not recorded. The identified publisher might be an associated or parent company, rather than the specific listed publisher.