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Cover: Jim Mooney & Charles Paris
Detective Comics #137
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Rebus Crimes!", the Joker turns a clever storefront riddle into a baffling crime spree, using a furrier's rebus sign as his cryptic blueprint. Dick Sprang's art brings the puzzle-like mystery to life, with Charles Paris handling the inks, while Jim Mooney's cover captures the eerie intrigue of the case.
Contains 5 stories
The Rebus Crimes!
Batman [Bruce Wayne]Robin [Dick Grayson]Commissioner James GordonMr. Crayley (sub-treasury employee)Mr. Millman (millionaire gem collector)The Joker (villain)Joker's gang (villains)
Cycle of Crimes!
Air Wave [Larry Jordan]
The Balloon Bandits!
Slam BradleyShorty Morgan
The Rise and Fall of a Gangster!
The Boy Commandos [Rip CarterBrooklyn [Dan Turpin]Andre ChavardTex]Al FerrisBiff Donnelly
Untitled Humor story
Shorty
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Raw (Good) $477
CGC 9.6 · 1 in census $21,769*
CGC 9.4 · 2 in census $13,312*
CGC 9.2 none in existence
CGC 9.0 · 3 in census $5,831
CGC 8.5 · 2 in census $4,465
CGC 8.0 · 5 in census $3,396
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CGC 7.5 · 5 in census $2,726*
CGC 7.0 · 3 in census $2,265*
CGC 6.5 · 3 in census $1,665
CGC 6.0 · 7 in census $1,665
CGC 5.5 · 5 in census $1,381*
CGC 5.0 · 6 in census $1,314*
CGC 4.5 · 7 in census $1,122*
CGC 4.0 · 4 in census $969
CGC 3.5 · 3 in census $868*
CGC 3.0 · 7 in census $769*
CGC 2.5 · 3 in census $623*
CGC 2.0 · 3 in census $530*
CGC 1.5 · 3 in census $407*
CGC 1.0 · 2 in census $333
CGC 0.5 · 2 in census $267*
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Reprinted in Detective Comics #137 (1948), Action Comics #231 (1957), Batman Archives #7 (2008), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus #6 (2019)
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