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Cover: Bob Kane & Jerry Robinson & George Roussos
Detective Comics #45
📊 ~47,972 copies sold its debut month
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The Case of the Laughing Death!
museum caretakerDistrict Attorney Carter (death)Joker's gang (villains)
Glover Green
Glover Green (villain)
The Lady Cabdriver
Slug MaloneMonk Albee (villain)
The Agita-Pulverizo Ray
Professor Crawford
The Bowling Bowl Bombers
The Airplane Murder
Kay Hogan (death)
Murder at the Polo Games
The Charity Racket
Janet Pierce
ComicBooks.com Value
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Raw (Good) $663
CGC 9.6 · 1 in census $50,795*
CGC 9.4 none in existence
CGC 9.2 · 2 in census $21,378*
CGC 9.0 · 3 in census $16,159*
CGC 8.5 · 6 in census $9,391
CGC 8.0 · 3 in census $8,055
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CGC 7.5 · 5 in census $4,900
CGC 7.0 · 10 in census $4,900
CGC 6.5 · 8 in census $4,458
CGC 6.0 · 7 in census $4,458
CGC 5.5 · 6 in census $3,488
CGC 5.0 · 8 in census $2,526
CGC 4.5 · 6 in census $1,947
CGC 4.0 · 10 in census $1,947
CGC 3.5 · 13 in census $1,932
CGC 3.0 · 10 in census $1,926
CGC 2.5 · 2 in census $1,453*
CGC 2.0 · 4 in census $1,345
CGC 1.5 · 5 in census $903
CGC 1.0 · 4 in census $794*
CGC 0.5 · 5 in census $715
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Our model’s value — refined as new sales data arrives · CGC census counts shown where available
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Cast · 11 characters
Full credits
writer Bill Finger
artist, inker Bob Kane
inker Jerry Robinson
inker, letterer George Roussos
cover pencils, inks Bob Kane
cover inks Jerry Robinson
cover inks George Roussos
Reprints
↩ Reprints New York World's Fair Comics #[2] (1940), All-Star Comics #2 (1940), Batman #3 (1940), Superman #7 (1940)
Reprinted in Batman Archives #1 (1990), DC Archiv Edition #3 (1999), The Batman Chronicles #2 (2006), Batman: The War Years 1939-1945 #[nn] (2015), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus #1 (2016), Batman: The Golden Age #1 (2016)
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