Detective Comics #168

(February 1951)

The Man Behind the Red Hood! (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman With Robin the Boy Wonder / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script:

Bill Finger

Pencils:

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

Inks:

George Roussos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

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 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) (1988)
• in The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (Warner Books, 1989 series) (1989)
• in The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told (DC, 1989 series) ([July] 1989)
• 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)
• in The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years (DC, 2014 series) ([July] 2014)

Keywords:

Bat-Signal; Batcave; Gotham City; State U. Tatler

Indexer Notes

Revised inker credit by Craig Delich (November 2005), previously given to Charles Paris

Splash loosely based on cover.

["Dad, how would you like to take a walk?"] (Table of Contents: 2)

Peg / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Peg

Reprints:

• in Falling in Love (DC, 1955 series) #12 (August 1957)

The Electric Thinking Cap! (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script:

?

Pencils:

Dan Barry

Inks:

Dan Barry

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

detective-mystery

Characters:

Roy Raymond

The Return of the Iron Man! (Table of Contents: 4)

Robotman / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Frank Bolle

Inks:

Frank Bolle

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Robotman [Robert Crane, aka Paul Dennis]

["What causes tides?"] (Table of Contents: 5)

Quick Quiz / activity / 0.75 page (report information)

Script:

H. T. Elmo

Pencils:

H. T. Elmo

Inks:

H. T. Elmo

Colors:

?

Letters:

H. T. Elmo

Genre:

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Writer and letterer credits by Craig Delich.

The World of Adventure in Books (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script:

Jack Schiff

Pencils:

Win Mortimer

Inks:

Win Mortimer

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ira Schnapp

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]]; Tomahawk [Tom Hawk]; The Shining Knight [Sir Justin]

Your Thinking Cap (Table of Contents: 7)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

William Morrison

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

["I'll pick up some easy money shovelling snow!"] (Table of Contents: 8)

Jerry the Jitterbug / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script:

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Jerry

Reprints:

• in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #26 (February 1958)

Ten Little Indians (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bruno Premiani

Inks:

Bruno Premiani

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

Pow-Wow Smith