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Star Spangled Comics 88

STAR SPANGLED COMICS #88

Cover Date: January 1949
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1948-11-03

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Cover Credits:
Art: Jim Mooney


Story: "The Man Batman Refused to Help!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Finger
ArtJim Mooney
LetteringIra Schnapp
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Robin (last in Detective Comics #143; next in World's Finest Comics #38)

Supporting Character(s):

Batman (last in Detective Comics #143; next in World's Finest Comics #38)

Villain(s):

Walsh (first appearance; a airline operator who ships crooks and stolen merchandise; kills one partner and frames another)

Location(s):

Gotham City

Comment(s):

Finger and Mooney credited as Bob Kane.
This story happens during the school year.

Story Reprinted in:

Robin Archives #2 (2010)


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Second Story: "Time To Kill!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

ArtChuck Winter
LetteringIra Schnapp
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Captain Compass

Supporting Character(s):

Captain Frank Mumford
Henry "Casey" Jones (first appearance; chief engineer; framed for murder)

Villain(s):

Von Strifel (first appearance; kills one of his own men and frames Jones to delay sailing so he could be smuggled aboard to get to America)

Location(s):

S.S. Nautilus
Casablanca, Morocco


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Third Story: "The Girl Who Tried to be a Boy!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

ArtWin Mortimer
LetteringIra Schnapp
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Girl of 1000 Gimmicks

Villain(s):

Charlie Moore (first appearance; tries to discredit his cousin, a girl, to get his grandfather's inheritance)


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Fourth Story: "Daniel Boone - King of the Hunters!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

ArtFred Ray

Feature Character(s):

Tomahawk

Guest Star(s):

Daniel Boone (first DCU appearance?; a frontiersman and adventurer)

Supporting Character(s):

Dan Hunter

Villain(s):

Black Deer (first appearance; an outlaw Indian)

Location(s):

Lexington (in the late 18th Century)

Comment(s):

This story takes place in 1770.


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