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Detective Comics#42
Cover: Bob Kane & Jerry Robinson

Detective Comics #42

Aug 1940 · DC · 0.10 USD
“The Case of the Prophetic Pictures!”
writer Bill Finger · artist, inker Bob Kane · inker, letterer Jerry Robinson · cover Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson

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Cast · 19 characters

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artist, inker Bob Kane
inker, letterer Jerry Robinson
cover pencils, inks Bob Kane
cover inks Jerry Robinson

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A business man heavily in debt buys up pictures of an artist at cheap prices, then tries to increase their value by murdering those pictured in the portraits.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).

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