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Comics - Ongoing - Detective Comics - Issue #57

DETECTIVE COMICS #57
TITLE: Twenty-Four Hours to Live

COVER DATE: November, 1941

WRITER: Bill Finger
ARTIST: Bob Kane
INKER: Jerry Robinson
EDITORS: Whitney Ellsworth
COVER: Bob Kane; Jerry Robinson

PRICE: $.10 U.S.

CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson)

PLOT:
Millionaire, Jaspar Sneed, is poisoned and given twenty-four hours to live. Sneed goes insane and begins trying to kill his family members, believing them to have been responsible for the poison. Batman learns of the case and acts to prevent the deaths of the family. Sneed eventually figures out the real killer is his butler, Barkis. Batman arrives in time to prevent Sneed from killing Barkis, but Sneed dies from the poison. Barkis then reveals that he is Sneed’s twin brother in disguise. He was angry with Jaspar for mistreating a woman they both loved. Batman attempts to bring Richard Sneed to justice, but the man was poisoned himself and soon dies.


TITLE: No Title

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: Ed Moore
INKER: Ed Moore
CHARACTERS: Bart Regan, Spy

PLOT:
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TITLE: No Title

WRITER: John Lehti
ARTIST: John Lehti
INKER: Charles Paris
CHARACTERS: Crimson Avenger

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Adventure of the Spider Girl

WRITER: Chad Grothkopf
ARTIST: Chad Grothkopf
INKER: Chad Grothkopf
CHARACTERS: Cliff Crosby

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Case of Double Trouble

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: Cliff Young
INKER: Cliff Young
CHARACTERS: Larry Steele

PLOT:
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TITLE: Murder in the Tropics

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: Ed Winiarski
INKER: Ed Winiarski
CHARACTERS: Speed Saunders

PLOT:
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TITLE: No Title

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: Don Lynch
INKER: Don Lynch
CHARACTERS: Steve Malone

PLOT:
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TITLE: The Case of the Talking Dummy

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: Howard Sherman
INKER: Howard Sherman
CHARACTERS: Slam Bradley

PLOT:
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