Cover of Detective Comics #173

Detective Comics

#173

July 1951 · 0.10 USD · 52 pages


Synopsis

With his Van Cleer alias lost to him, Killer Moth decides to steal the identity of Bruce Wayne (whom he imprisons in a vault), then hires a plastic surgeon to alter his face into an exact double of Wayne's, and fools Dick Grayson into believing he is Wayne and Dick doesn't realize at first. The Moth goes out as Batman, enhancing his criminal reputation by making it appear that Batman fears the Moth. Wayne escapes in time to see Killer Moth shot down by one of his own gang, thinking he's been double-crossed. Moth's face is wrecked by the bullets, and the resultant cranial injury causes amnesia.

Credits

Script
Henry Boltinoff, Horace Elmo, R. E. Gurvitz, Jack Schiff
Pencils
Win Mortimer, Lew Sayre Schwartz, Ray Thompson, Frank Bolle, Henry Boltinoff, Dan Barry, Horace Elmo, Bruno Premiani, Bob Oksner
Inks
Win Mortimer, Charles Paris, Ray Thompson, Frank Bolle, Henry Boltinoff, Dan Barry, Horace Elmo, Bruno Premiani, Bob Oksner
Letters
Ira Schnapp, Henry Boltinoff, Horace Elmo
Actual editor
Jack Schiff
Batman and robin figures only
Bob Kane
Credited editor
Whitney Ellsworth

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