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Cover: Sheldon Moldoff

Detective Comics #252

Feb 1958 · DC · 0.10 USD
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In "The Creature from the Green Lagoon," Batman and Robin answer a frantic call from a film producer friend stranded on Skull Island, where a mysterious creature is sabotaging a movie set—wrecking equipment and halting production. With Sheldon Moldoff’s sharp art and Charles Paris’s crisp inks bringing the eerie jungle setting to life, writer Dave Wood crafts a suspenseful mystery that pits the Dynamic Duo against a threat both unseen and unexplained. The cover, also by Moldoff, captures the tension with a striking image of the duo confronting the looming danger.

Contains 6 stories
The Creature from the Green Lagoon
12 pp · Superhero
Batman [Bruce Wayne]Robin [Dick Grayson]Cory Blane (film producer)Professor Carter (technical producer)Charles Devon (big-game hunter, technical producer)Tod Martin (villain, Blane's assistant, introduction)Locto (mechanical creature, villain, death)

In "The Creature from the Green Lagoon," Batman and Robin are summoned to Skull Island by a film producer friend whose movie set is under siege by a mysterious creature haunting the green lagoon. With a constructed wall meant to keep the beast at bay, the Dynamic Duo must unravel the truth behind the creature's attacks—before the production grinds to a halt.

Untitled Humor story
0.67 pp · Humor
Casey the Cop
The Menace of the Super Weapons
6 pp · Superhero
Martian Manhunter [John JonesJ'onn J'onzz]Captain Harding (supporting)Waldo Wilson (intro, villain)
Untitled Humor story
2 pp · Humor
Warden WillisCommissioner
The Undersea City
6 pp · Detective-Mystery
Roy RaymondKaren (supporting)Horace Wakely (intro)
Untitled Humor story
0.5 pp · Humor
SpikeSchultz

ComicBooks.com Value

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Raw (VG) $31
CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $1,891*
CGC 9.2 · 2 in census $1,096*
CGC 9.0 · 2 in census $745*
CGC 8.5 · 4 in census $510*
CGC 8.0 · 6 in census $393*
CGC 7.5 · 5 in census $316
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CGC 7.0 · 2 in census $245
CGC 6.5 · 6 in census $219*
CGC 6.0 · 7 in census $195*
CGC 5.5 · 4 in census $153*
CGC 5.0 · 5 in census $153*
CGC 4.5 · 6 in census $122*
CGC 4.0 · 3 in census $121*
CGC 3.5 · 4 in census $99*
CGC 3.0 · 2 in census $77*
CGC 2.5 · 3 in census $68*
CGC 2.0 · 2 in census $53*
CGC 1.5 · 4 in census $42
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VERY GOOD $5.49 Newsstand $7.99 PR $23.49 FR $41 GD $52.28 GD $65 VG $67 VERY FINE $300
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Full credits

writer Dave Wood
cover pencils, inks Sheldon Moldoff

Reprints

Reprinted in Big Boy #21 (1958), The Hundred Comic Monthly #22 (1958), Big Boy #23 (1958), Mammoth Annual #1 (1959), Batman Annual #6 (1963), Big Boss #11 (1973), Batman in the Fifties #[nn] (2002), Showcase Presents: Martian Manhunter #1 (2007), DC Comics Classics Library: The Batman Annuals #2 (2010), Batman in the Fifties #[nn] (2021)

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