Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1959-12-29
Editing: Jack Schiff (credited) (editor); Murray Boltinoff (credited) (associate editor); George Kashdan (credited) (associate editor)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

[no title indexed]

The National Sports Council Books / advertisement / 1 page

The Return of Bat-Mite

Batman and Robin / comic story / 12.67 pages


  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Hobby Robber (intro, villain)
Synopsis:
Bat-Mite returns for more fun with Batman and Robin. But when they turn away his offer to help, Bat-Mite decides to help Batwoman instead.

Three Exciting New Adventures

Batman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page

Superboy Says: "It's Fun to Help Others!"

Superboy / public service announcement / 1 page


  • Genre:advocacy; superhero
Characters:

[no title indexed]

Hi-Power Binoculars / advertisement / 0.5 page

[no title indexed]

150 Civil War Soldiers / advertisement / 0.5 page

[no title indexed]

Law Oddities / cartoon / 0.67 page


  • Genre:non-fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:In Ancient Greece, if a rock fell on a man and injured him,...
Reprints (1)

[Ownership, Management, and Circulation of Detective Comics]

statement of ownership / 0.33 page

Indexer Notes

Date of Filing: October 1, 1959. Publisher: National Comics 575 Lexington Ave, New York, NY. Editor: Jack Schiff. Owners: Harry Donenfeld, J. Liebowitz, P. Sampliner, G. Donenfeld, S. Sampliner, F. Iger, I. Donenfeld, S. Iger, A. Donenfeld, L. Liebowitz, J. H. Liebowitz, H. Donenfeld Foundation.

The Great Space Hoax

Roy Raymond TV Detective / comic story / 6 pages


  • Genre:detective-mystery
Characters:
Yarrum (alien)
Synopsis:
Usually, contestants on Roy's show make claims that he proves to be hoaxes. This time the contestant admits he's perpetrating a hoax and dares Roy to prove it.
Reprints (3)

[no title indexed]

Warden Willis / comic story / 1 page


  • Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:There goes the escaped man, Warden!
Characters:
Reprints (1)

The Arrest That Failed

text story / 1 page

Script:
?
Letters:
typeset

The Crimes of John Jones

Martian Manhunter / comic story / 5.67 pages


  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
"Big Boy" Benson (intro, villain)
Synopsis:
A passing cosmic cloud gives Manhunter amnesia and Big Boy Benson tries to convince him he's a crook.
Reprints (3)

Indexer Notes

Martian Manhunter also appears in The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #28 this month.

[no title indexed]

World's Finest Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page

[no title indexed]

Frontier Cabin / advertisement / 0.5 page

[no title indexed]

100 Toy Soldiers / advertisement / 0.25 page

[no title indexed]

Space Shoes / advertisement / 0.25 page

[no title indexed]

Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes / advertisement / 1 page

[no title indexed]

Charles Atlas Dynamic Tension System / advertisement / 1 page

If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Creative Commons License
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.