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Detective Comics (1937) - #423
"The Most Dangerous Twenty Miles In Gotham City!"
DC Comics


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Michael William Kaluta - 'Michael Wm. Kaluta, Mike Kaluta'
  

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Cover Date: May 1972
Cover Price: US $ 0.25

Issue Tagline: Why has the Batman -- who has sworn never to use a gun -- turned into an assassin?

Format: Color; Standard Comic Issue; 48 pages

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Letters Column: Batman's Hot Line

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Reprints/Collects:
Big Town (1951) #15
Gang Busters (1947) #26

Reprinted/Collected in:
Batgirl: The Greatest Stories Ever Told (2010) TPB vol. 01
Showcase Presents Batgirl (2007) TPB vol. 01
Superman-Batman (1966) #1972-19

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Writer(s):
Frank Robbins

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William "Bob" Brown

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Dick Giordano

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A 4 page Johnny Law story originally published in Big Town #15, May-June, 1952.

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Writer(s):
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10 page detective classic originally published in Gangbusters #26 (February-March, 1952)

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