Detective Comics #168

(February 1951)

The Man Behind the Red Hood! (Table of Contents)

Batman and Robin / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bill Finger

Pencils:

Lew Sayre Schwartz [as Bob Kane] (signed); Win Mortimer (Robin figure on splash)

Inks:

George Roussos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Dean Chalmers (of State University); Paul Wong (student); Jimmy Kale (student); Earl "Farmerboy" Benson (villain, ex-con, university gardener); The Red Hood [The Joker](villain, origin)

Synopsis:

Batman is invited to be a guest instructor for a class on criminology at State University, and, since the students are making such good progress, he decides to use them to try and solve a case he never could concerning a criminal known as the Red Hood.

Reprints:

• in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #213 (July-August 1969)
• in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #G61 (July-August 1969)
• in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #2/1970 (24.Januar 1970)
• in Batman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, 1971 series) #73-168329 (October 1971)
• in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-39 (October-November 1975)
• in The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (DC, 1988 series) #[nn] ([December] 1988)
• in Stacked Deck: The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (Longmeadow Press, 1990 series) #[nn] ([November] 1990)
• in Batman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #[nn] ([April] 2002)
• in Batman Archives (DC, 1990 series) #8 ([June] 2012)

Keywords:

Bat-Signal; Batcave

Indexer Notes

Revised ink credit by Craig Delich (November 2005). Previous ink credit given to Charles Paris.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Peg / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Content Information

Genre:

humor

The Electric Thinking Cap! (Table of Contents)

Impossible -- But True / comic story / 7.66 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dan Barry

Inks:

Dan Barry

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective-mystery

The Return of the Iron Man! (Table of Contents)

Robotman / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Frank Bolle

Inks:

Frank Bolle

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Quick Quiz / activity / 0.66 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

H. T. Elmo

Inks:

H. T. Elmo

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

The World of Adventure in Books (Table of Contents)

Green Arrow, Tomahawk, Shining Knight / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Schiff

Pencils:

Win Mortimer

Inks:

Win Mortimer

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ira Schnapp

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Your Thinking Cap (Table of Contents)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

William Morrison

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Jerry the Jitterbug / filler / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Ten Little Indians (Table of Contents)

Pow-Wow Smith, Indian Lawman / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bruno Premiani

Inks:

Bruno Premiani

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

western-frontier