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Comics - Ongoing - Detective Comics - Issue #103

DETECTIVE COMICS #103
TITLE: Trouble, Incorporated

COVER DATE: September, 1945

WRITER: Alvin Schwartz
ARTIST: Jack Burnley
INKER: Charles Paris
EDITORS: Jack Schiff
COVER: Dick Sprang

PRICE: $.10 U.S.

CHARACTERS: Batman (Bruce Wayne); Robin (Dick Grayson); Commissioner James Gordon

PLOT:
Dean Gray retires as the dean at Gotham University. He opens a free advice service called Trouble, Incorporated to help Gotham residents. Crooks decide to use Trouble, Incorporated by eavesdropping on the meetings. Using confidential information they obtain, the crooks commit crimes.

Batman and Robin decipher the connection between the crooks and Trouble, Incorporated. They track down one of Dean Gray's clients, Mr. Cole, who tells them about his brother, who is hiding from the police with some stolen money. Batman arrives to find the crooks robbing Cole's brother. They are initially captured, but when Dean Gray stumbles in, Batman is able to overpower the crooks.


TITLE: Stormy Weather

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: Howard Sherman
INKER: John Daly
CHARACTERS: Slam Bradley; Shorty Morgan

PLOT:
Slam and Shorty witness a house burn to the ground after it is struck by lightning. When several other houses suffer the same fate, Slam gets suspicious. He begins investigating and learns that each house was heavily insured, but filled with junk furniture. While sifting through the rubble of one house, thugs attack him. Slam eventually realizes that the lightning was faked as part of an insurance scam by the crooks. He exposes the scam to police and apprehends the racketeers.

TITLE: The Candy Kid

WRITER: Unknown
ARTIST: George Roussos
INKER: George Roussos
CHARACTERS: Air Wave; Static

PLOT:
A thief robs a candy factory, stealing only candy. Air Wave tries to catch the crook, but the thief eludes him. The son of the factory owner presents a hair-brained idea as to the thief's motive. Rather than follow up on the kid's idea, Air Wave begins questioning factory employees. He eventually finds that the crook has hidden some stolen emeralds in a candy box and is trying to locate them. Air Wave exposes the crooks and recovers the missing jewels.

TITLE: The Retreat of Battalion O

WRITER: George Kashdan
ARTIST: Louis Cazeneuve
INKER: Louis Cazeneuve
CHARACTERS: Boy Commandos; Andre Chavard; Brooklyn; Alfy Twidgett

PLOT:
The Boy Commandos and a group of American troops are surrounding in enemy territory. The boys dress in German clothes and sneak into a nearby town. They then gather supplies to bring back to the troops. Using a combination of bravery and unusual tactics, the battalion is able to escape the Nazi troops and even capture the German leader, General Von Rumpel.

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