Comic Title: Detective Comics #155
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: January 1950
Approx. On Sale Date: November 18, 1949 Copyright Date November 16, 1949
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1949
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "Bruce Wayne, Private Detective"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Batman (of Earth-2)

Penciller: Lew Sayre Schwartz
Inker: Charles Paris

Reprinted In:
Batman Archives Vol. 8 HC (2012)
Batman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 7 HC (2019)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #154; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #44)

Supporting Character(s)

• Robin (last appearance in Star Spangled Comics #100; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #44)
• Vicki Vale (last appearance in Batman #56; next appearance in Detective Comics #157)

Villain(s)

• Frank Kelcey and Tilley (an architect and a lawyer; no further appearances)
• Tracks Carlin (a smuggler; in flashback; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Ed Wedge (a private detective; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Bruce Wayne becomes a private detective while Vicki Vale's detective friend Ed Wedge is in the hospital. Two men approach Bruce asking him to obtain a model train that Batman has kept as a trophy from a previous case. Suspicious, Bruce delivers a phony train to one of the men, Frank Kelcy. Kelcy realizes the train is a fake, then joins forces with Tilley, the lawyer of the train's former owner Tracks Carlin. Batman apprehends the men as they try to steal another copy of the train from Bruce Wayne's office. A later examination of the real model reveals that Carlin used the wire on the train to make recordings detailing the criminals deeds of Tilley, Kelcey, and others.