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Publisher: DC

Title: Detective Comics
Issue: 442
Page Count: 100
Publish Date: August-September 1974
Volume: 38

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Detective Comics #442
Owner: Par2ch

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Story Title: Death Flies the Haunted Sky! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Eve Dancer; Robin [Dick Grayson] (head shot); Hawkman [Carter Hall] (head shot); Manhunter [Paul Kirk] (head shot); Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson] (head shot); The Guardian [Jim Harper] (head shot)


Story Title: Detective Comics / Contents - table of contents
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]


Story Title: Death Flies the Haunted Sky - comic story
Pages:11
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Eve Dancer; Mason Terrell; Doug Garth; Rick Halstrom; Ben Dancer; Benjy Dancer


Story Title: The House Where Time Stood Still - comic story
Pages:12
Genre:superhero
Characters:The Guardian [Jim Harper]; The Newsboy Legion [Tommy Tompkins; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Gabby [Jonathan Gabrielli]; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]]; Hector Presby; Julius Presby; August (villain, Nazi spy); Karl (villain, Nazi spy)
Synopsis:Citizens are very concerned that the Presby brothers haven't been seen in over 25 years, so the boys and the Guardian investigate, only to learn that they locked themselves in their home to avoid contact with World War 1 and now World War 2. However, that plays right into the hands of a couple of Nazi spies who intend to use their home as a secret Nazi radio station to contact submarines.


Story Title: The Magic Mirror Mystery! - comic story
Pages:10.67
Genre:superhero
Characters:Hawkman [Katar Hol]; Hawkgirl [Shayera Hol]; Commissioner George Emmett; Robert Sorel; "Scoops" Handley; Harry Winsor; Pete
Synopsis:Hawkman tricks a thief into confessing to an "impossible" robbery.


Story Title: The Huntress of the Highway! - comic story
Pages:7
Genre:superhero
Characters:Black Canary [Dinah Drake]; Larry Lance (introduction, boyfriend, private detective)
Synopsis:Black Canary must help Larry in his quest to discover why trucks keep disappearing on the Franklin Turnpike.


Story Title: The Robbery That Never Happened! - comic story
Pages:9.67
Genre:superhero
Characters:Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Sue Dibny; Richard Bell


Story Title: Vanishing Village! - comic story
Pages:11
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne; also as Knuckles Donegan]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Knuckles Donegan (villain, introduction); Weasel (villain, introduction); Slick (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:Batman and Robin are surprised to learn that an abandoned village in Florida, patterned after a Turkish village named Alhambra, has vanished, which is also the home of many a master criminal who has also disappeared.


Story Title: [ no title ] - letters page
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Characters:Batman


Story Title: Murder in Baranga Marsh - comic story
Pages:10
Genre:superhero
Characters:Doctor Fate [Kent Nelson]; Inza Kramer; Serge Roltavich; The Master (villain, introduction, death); Nasha (villain)
Synopsis:A mad man invents a sound system that kills people at a distance and Dr. Fate sets out to halt the senseless murders that have already occurred.


Story Title: Chapter 6: To Duel the Master - comic story
Pages:9
Genre:superhero
Characters:Manhunter [Paul Kirk]; Christine St. Clair; The Council [Dr. Anatol Mykros; Asano Nitobe; Christine's father]
Synopsis:Tracking Dr. Mykros back to Sanctuary, Manhunter must battle his teacher, Asano Nitobe.


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