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| rdfs:label | - Detective Comics Vol 1 70
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| Indicia Publisher | |
| Letterer1 | - Charles Paris
- Ira Schnapp
- Howard Sherman
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| Inker1 | - Jerry Robinson
- Charles Paris
- George Roussos
- Howard Sherman
- Joe Simon
- Chuck Winter
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| Inker1 | - Jerry Robinson
- Charles Paris
- George Roussos
- Howard Sherman
- Joe Simon
- Chuck Winter
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| Writer1 | - Don Cameron
- Jack Kirby
- Murray Boltinoff
- Joe Samachson
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| Penciler1 | - Bob Kane
- Jack Kirby
- Howard Sherman
- Jack Lehti
- Chuck Winter
- Harris Levy
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| Writer1 | - Don Cameron
- Jack Kirby
- Murray Boltinoff
- Joe Samachson
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| StoryTitle | - Air Wave: "Who Rubbed Out the Editor?"
- Bart Regan, Spy: "The Man Who Looted Lives"
- Batman: "The Man Who Could Read Minds"
- Boy Commandos: "Fury Rides a Taxicab"
- Slam Bradley: "X Marked the Spot at the Tee"
- Crimson Avenger: "The Mystery of the Musical Muggs"
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| Editor1 | - Whitney Ellsworth
- Murray Boltinoff
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| Penciler1 | - Bob Kane
- Jack Kirby
- Howard Sherman
- Jack Lehti
- Chuck Winter
- Harris Levy
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| Appearing | - Featured Characters:
* Bart Regan
Supporting Characters:
* Unknown
Adversaries:
* Unknown
Other Characters:
* Unknown
Locations:
* Unknown
Items:
* Unknown
Vehicles:
* Unknown
- Featured Characters:
*
Supporting Characters:
* Robin
Adversaries:
* Carlo
Other Characters:
* Old Pete Jorgen
Locations:
* Earth-Two
** Gotham City
** Miser's Isle
Items:
* Batrope
Vehicles:
* Batplane
- Featured Characters:
* Crimson Avenger
Supporting Characters:
* Wing
Adversaries:
* Mickey the Mugg
Other Characters:
* Unknown
Locations:
* Earth-Two
Items:
* Unknown
Vehicles:
* Unknown
- Featured Characters:
* Slam Bradley
Supporting Characters:
* Shorty Morgan
Adversaries:
* The Junior Fuehrer
* Heinrich and Hans
Other Characters:
* Taylor
* Amos Blimper
Locations:
* Unknown
Items:
* Unknown
Vehicles:
* Unknown
- Featured Characters:
* Air Wave
Supporting Characters:
* Static
Adversaries:
* Duke the secretary
Other Characters:
* Editor Murray Boltinoff
* Duke
* Elsom, sometimes "Elson"
* Blake
* Angelo
Locations:
* Earth-Two
** Gotham City
*** Kolossal Komics publishing office, "high up in downtown Gotham"
Items:
* Unknown
Vehicles:
* Unknown
- Featured Characters:
* Boy Commandos
** Alfy
** Andre
** Brooklyn
** Jan
Supporting Characters:
* Rip Carter
Adversaries:
* Unknown
Other Characters:
* Hack Hogan
Locations:
* Unknown
Items:
* Unknown
Vehicles:
* Unknown
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| Letterer1 | - Charles Paris
- Ira Schnapp
- Howard Sherman
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| Brand/Imprint | - A Superman DC Publication
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| Editor1 | - Whitney Ellsworth
- Murray Boltinoff
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| Links | - * Detective Comics #70 index entry
* Detective Comics #70 Air Wave: "Who Rubbed Out the Editor?" story online
* Detective Comics #70 Batman spoilers
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| Synopsis | - Three wealthy men are murdered and robbed by an unknown criminal who leaves misleading notes at the crime scenes, crediting "Keen Arrow," "Showerman," and "the Sunburned Kid" with the crimes. District Attorney Larry Jordan visits Kolossal Komics to question Editor Murray; no sooner do they step out of the room than three high-strung cartoonists start fist-fighting among themselves and accusing each other of framing them. Amidst this confusion, in another room, Editor Murray gets stabbed to death with a steel pen. Police are called in. Jordan is stymied, all four suspects have stories that hold up. Everyone is released. Jordan returns that night as Air Wave, with his parrot Static, and stealthily breaks into the office. A masked intruder is there, who throws a steel pen at him, misses, and flees. Air Wave knocks a giant stack of comic books down onto himself and by the time he struggles free the mystery man is gone and he finds a dead cartoonist, Elson, with an arrow in his chest and a mocking note from Keen Arrow. Also a typewriter has been stolen. Using his weird radio powers, Air Wave broadcasts a message to every typewriter in the city, warning that Air Wave is on the case. This has some amusing results in some places but more importantly it frightens the murderer fleeing with the incriminating typewriter, who blurts out panicky remarks, which Air Wave, using his unusual super powers, is able to hear and to trace to their source . Harnessing electrical energy from the Earth, via his sensitive radio aerial, Air Wave attains amazing speed on his electrical skates, and quickly overtakes the fleeing felon, who is quickly subdued by teamwork between Air Wave and Static the very smart parrot. The killer turns out to be Duke the secretary and the murder weapon turns out to be the typewriter which was rigged with a steel-dart-hurling spring.
- Carlo, a stage show "mind reader", is involved in an car accident. He undergoes an emergency operation which is interrupted by a power outage, causing a surgical accident gives him the ability to really read minds. He then begins using this power for criminal gain. Batman tries to stop him, but Carlo reads Batman’s mind and learns that Bruce Wayne is Batman, and sends him a message, via a bat flying through Bruce Wayne's window, describing his next planned crime, on Miser's Island. Despite the imminent exposure of their secret identities, the Dynamic Duo fly there to thwart the theft. Carlos uses his telepathic tactical advantage to get the drop on his enemies. He throws Robin in a bathysphere and drops him to the bottom of the ocean with the oxygen valve turned off, and traps Batman in a room with moveable walls. We never find out why the miser, Old Pete Jorgen, had this kind of booby trap in his house, but Batman escapes from it, and when he gets out he finds Carlos questioning Old Pete behind bullet-proof glass, which he cuts through by using his diamond studded platinum Bat-logo shaped police badge, that we've never seen before and aren't expecting to see again either, and he saves Old Pete, plus by lip-reading he finds out about Robin's situation, and dives to accomplish that rescue also, with an acetylene torch. They get back to shore and there's Carlos, paying attention to them but not to Old Pete, who just plain shoots him dead. Batman calls in the Coast Guard using a nearby lighthouse as a bat-signal.
- Slam and Shorty are interrupted on the golf course by two champion golfers. Taylor the amateur champ is struck dead by a gunshot while teeing off. Slam investigates the case and finds that Taylor's golf club was actually a gun which fires when it struck the ball. He determines that Taylor's opponent Dr. Grunt from Germany is an impostor, who killed the golfer to protect his secret. The impostor is actually the head of a Nazi spy ring, which Slam and Shorty smash.
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| Notes | - * "The Man Who Could Read Minds" is reprinted in .
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| quotation | - You made one mistake when you killed Elson. You planted the mark of "The Keen Arrow" on him ... forgetting that Elson was the artist who drew that character! He couldn't have murdered himself!
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