Object label
DC Comics · Comics · Detective Comics · 1948
Detective Comics #140
Detective Comics · 1948
Having grown up an expert and a cheat when it came to solving puzzles, Edward Nigma decides to use this capacity to mystify the Police and Batman...as the Riddler!
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Detective Comics #140 belongs to a comics graph built around publisher, series, issue number, characters, creators like Bill Finger, Charles Paris, and Curt Swan, and story context. The important part is not just the issue record, but how it connects into runs, appearances, and adjacent covers.
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Detective Comics #140 is a comics collectible connected to DC Comics and Detective Comics. Useful collector signals include release year 1948, issue #140, and artist context from Curt Swan, Whitney Ellsworth, and Winslow Mortimer. Detective Comics has 49 catalogued releases on GrailHub, making this page a route into completion, variants, and nearby objects.
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Collector notes
Detective Comics #140 is a comics entry for issue #140 in Detective Comics from 1948. GrailHub tracks publisher, series, issue number, cover date, creators, characters, and first appearances where that data is available.
DC Comics pages connect this issue back to its publisher, series, creators, and related issues. For comic collectors, those links matter because discovery often starts with a character, creative team, first appearance, or a run of issues rather than one isolated record.
Characters associated with this issue include Andre Chavard, Batman, Dan Turpin, Dick Grayson, James Gordon, and Riddler.
Series context
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- 49 objects
- Release span
- 1938-1948
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Quick facts
- Publisher
- DC Comics
- Series
- Detective Comics
- Issue number
- #140
- Cover date
- Oct 1, 1948
- Characters
- Andre Chavard, Batman, Dan Turpin, Dick Grayson, James Gordon, Riddler +5 more
- Creators
- Bill Finger, Charles Paris, Curt Swan, Dick Sprang, Howard Sherman, Jimmy Thompson +4 more
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Data source
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- Metron
- Source ID
- 29352
- Source URL
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