DETECTIVE COMICS (1937-2011; 2016-) #115
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Curt Swan art
Detective Comics #115 boasts an awesome Win Mortimer cover and a book packed full of bizarre villains. That begins with Batman and Robin taking on the unlikely challenge of a crooked architect in "The Man Who Lived in a Glass House" (which also features one of Mortimer's most beloved splash pages). That's backed by Air Wave taking on the murderous Swami Abdul, followed by a criminal gang using laughing gas in the Slam Bradley classic "Molar Mobsters." There's also a full-page ad for "Pepsi," the Pepsi-Cola Cop, further making this book a classic of post-war comics craziness!
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Artist Information
Swan was a house artist at DC working on titles like Tommy Tomorrow, he began gravitating towards Superman and his related books, Superboy, World's Finest and Jimmy Olsen, he would eventually leave DC thanks to his personality issue with Editor In Chief Mort Weisinger. He would eventually return and go on to be the artist that defined the look of Superman in the Silver Age, eventually becoming the editor of the title, but after thirty years of keeping up standards of all things Superman, Swan was given the boot in favor of John Byrne's Superman reboot, Swan's comic work began to taper off after this dismissal and he eventually retired, but will forever be recognized as the Silver Age Superman's finest artist.
Detective Comics #115 boasts an awesome Win Mortimer cover and a book packed full of bizarre villains. That begins with Batman and Robin taking on the unlikely challenge of a crooked architect in "The Man Who Lived in a Glass House" (which also features one of Mortimer's most beloved splash pages). That's backed by Air Wave taking on the murderous Swami Abdul, followed by a criminal gang using laughing gas in the Slam Bradley classic "Molar Mobsters." There's also a full-page ad for "Pepsi," the Pepsi-Cola Cop, further making this book a classic of post-war comics craziness!
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Artist Information
Swan was a house artist at DC working on titles like Tommy Tomorrow, he began gravitating towards Superman and his related books, Superboy, World's Finest and Jimmy Olsen, he would eventually leave DC thanks to his personality issue with Editor In Chief Mort Weisinger. He would eventually return and go on to be the artist that defined the look of Superman in the Silver Age, eventually becoming the editor of the title, but after thirty years of keeping up standards of all things Superman, Swan was given the boot in favor of John Byrne's Superman reboot, Swan's comic work began to taper off after this dismissal and he eventually retired, but will forever be recognized as the Silver Age Superman's finest artist.