Friday, February 21, 2020

The recycling of Batman #88: The K.G. Murray edition


Colour Comics' Batman #88 was published c.September 1957:


The cover originally appeared on DC's Detective Comics #243, May 1957:


This cover was recycled by Colour Comics for Giant Batman Album #14 c.November 1967:


The contents:

Professor Eureka [Begins "Oh, My--Space Ships! From some other planet!"], originally published in House of Mystery #63, June 1957
Batman the Giant!, originally published in Detective Comics #243, May 1957
Fingerprint Oddities [Begins "In order to read fingerprints, a chemical...], originally published in Big Town #46, July-August 1957
The Strange Circus of Mr. Sinistro, originally published in World's Finest Comics #89, July-Aug 1958
Moolah the Mystic [Begins "Lying on a bed of spikes!"], originally published in Tales of the Unexpected #15, July 1957
The Big Batman Quiz, originally published in Batman #108, June 1957

My copy is missing the rear cover, so it is possible there is another filler strip on page 31.

The contents of this issue - main features and fillers - were recycled in Colossal Comic #24. The main features and some of the fillers were recycled in Giant Batman Album #14.


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