Issue · DC Comics

Detective Comics (1937) #137: The Rebus Crimes

Released May 21, 1948

• USD $0.10
• 52 pages

The Joker launches a crime spree using picture rebuses to announce each target, forcing Batman and Robin to decode his riddles before he can strike. Historically significant as the first depiction of the Batcave with its mechanical dinosaur and giant penny.

Writer

Henry Boltinoff

Penciller

Jim Mooney

Inker

Charles Paris

Letterer

Henry Boltinoff