Cover: Jim Mooney

Detective Comics #151

Sep 1949 · DC · 0.10 USD

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“I.O.U. My Life!”

In "I.O.U. My Life!", Egyptology student Ben Kole takes his peculiar brand of heroism to the extreme—saving lives only to demand signed IOUs, setting up a dangerous game of debt and leverage. Dick Sprang’s expressive art brings the twisty moral stakes to life, while Jim Mooney’s cover captures the eerie, high-stakes tension of a man who’s not quite who he claims to be.

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artist, inker Dick Sprang · cover Jim Mooney

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artist, inker Dick Sprang

cover pencils, inks Jim Mooney

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Ben Kole, a supposed student of Egyptology, has the weird hobby of saving people's lives, then demanding that they sign an "I.O.U. My Life" form in order to later blackmail those he saved.

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