Detective Comics #97
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Secret of the Switch!", Batman faces a deadly puzzle from the past: a safe buried beneath the city, guarded by seven switches—one opens it, the others trigger a bomb. With the Slasher long gone, the note left behind is the only clue, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Written by Joe Greene and brought to life by Dick Sprang’s dynamic art—pencils and inks by Sprang, with Jerry Robinson on inks and Dick Sprang handling the lettering—this 1945 issue delivers a tense, clever mystery that puts the Dark Knight’s wits to the ultimate test. The cover, also by Dick Sprang, captures the suspense with a striking, shadowed image of the safe and its ominous switches.
In "The Secret of the Switch!" from Detective Comics #97 (1945), Batman faces a deadly puzzle left behind by the long-dead Slasher: a safe with seven switches, only one of which will open it— the others triggering a bomb. With time running out, the Dark Knight must use his wits to uncover the correct sequence before the trap claims him.
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Reprinted in Special Edition, Detective Comics #4 (1945), Batman Archives #4 (1998), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus #4 (2018), Frozen Adventures: Flurries of Fun #[nn] (2019)
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