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Detective Comics #48 (of 1000000)

The Secret Cavern
February 1st, 1941
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48 (of 881)
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The Secret Cavern
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Cover date:
February 1st, 1941
Store date:
December 31st, 1940
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Batman and Robin must stop robbers plotting to hit the nation's gold reserve!

  1. Batman - The Secret Cavern - When a surveyor discovers a limestone cavern that runs under the nation's gold reserves, gangsters frame his daughter for murder in order to blackmail him into revealing the cave's entrance. Unfortunately for them, Bruce Wayne happens to have a date with the young lady that very evening!

  2. Spy

  3. Larry Steele - The Case Of The Fugitive Killer

  4. Cliff Crosby

  5. Speed Saunders

  6. Steve Malone

  7. G-Man's Revenge by Tim Standish (text)

  8. The Crimson Avenger

  9. Slam Bradley

This is the first issue of Detective Comics to refer to Gotham City by name.

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