Detective Comics (1937 series) (DC) #168

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Number	168
Volume
No Volume	No
Display Volume With Number	No
Indicia Publisher
Indicia Publisher Not Printed	Printed
Brand
No Brand	No
Publication Date	February 1951
Key Date	1951-02-10
Year On Sale	None
Month On Sale	None
Day On Sale	None
On Sale Date Uncertain	No
Indicia Frequency
No Indicia Frequency	No
Price	0.10
Page Count	52 (note: total sum of story page counts is 42.82)
Page Count Uncertain	No
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)
No Editing
Barcode
No Barcode	Yes
Notes	Original cover art had Moldoff/Roussos credits on it - impossible for Moldoff(he didn't start until 1953). Revised ink credit verified by Craig Delich (Nov. 2005). One former ink credit was given to Charles Paris.
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Sequence Number	0
Title	The Man Behind the Red Hood
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	cover
Feature	Batman and Robin
Genre	superhero
Job Number
Script	?
No Script
Pencils	Lew Sayre Schwartz
No Pencils
Inks	George Roussos
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	1
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters
Synopsis
Reprint Notes
Notes	Original cover art had Moldoff/Roussos credits on it - impossible for Moldoff(he didn't start until 1953). Revised ink credit verified by Craig Delich (Nov. 2005). One former ink credit was given to Charles Paris.
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Sequence Number	1
Title	The Man Behind the Red Hood
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	comic story
Feature	Batman and Robin
Genre	superhero
Job Number
Script	Bill Finger
No Script
Pencils	Lew Sayre Schwartz, Win Mortimer (Robin figure on splash)
No Pencils
Inks	George Roussos
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	?
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	13
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters	Batman; Robin Joker (as the Red Hood, origin)
Synopsis
Reprint Notes	in Batman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #73-168329 in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #213 (July-August 1969) in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-39 (October-November 1975) in Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1988 series) #nn ([December] 1988)
Notes	Revised ink credit by Craig Delich (Nov. 2005). Previous ink credit given to Charles Paris.
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Field	Added / Next
Sequence Number	6
Title	The World of Adventure in Books
Unofficial Title?	No
Type	public service announcement
Feature	Green Arrow, Tomahawk, Shining Knight
Genre	superhero
Job Number
Script	Jack Schiff
No Script
Pencils	Win Mortimer
No Pencils
Inks	Win Mortimer
No Inks
Colors	?
No Colors
Letters	Ira Schnapp
No Letters
Editing
No Editing	X
Page Count	1
Page Count Uncertain	No
Characters
Synopsis
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Anonymous User	This change is a temporary migration representing the state of the database at the time of the new site deployment. It will be replaced by history assembled from our old database soon.		2010-11-20 10:33:59	Available	Approved

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