Comic Title: Detective Comics #66
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: August 1942
Approx. On Sale Date: June 24, 1942 Copyright Date June 20, 1942
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1942
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: 64
Contains: Ownership Statement
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: "The Sphinx Speaks"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Boy Commandos (of Earth-2)

Writer/Penciller: Joe Simon
Inker: Jack Kirby

Reprinted In:
Boy Commandos #1 (1973)
Boy Commandos by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby Vol. 1 HC (2011)

Feature Character(s)

• Boy Commandos (last appearance in Detective Comics #65; next appearance in Detective Comics #67)
• Andre Chavard (last appearance in Detective Comics #65; next appearance in Detective Comics #67)
• Alfy Twidgett (last appearance in Detective Comics #65; next appearance in Detective Comics #67)
• Jan Haasen (last appearance in Detective Comics #65; next appearance in Detective Comics #67)
• Brooklyn (last appearance in Detective Comics #65; next appearance in Detective Comics #67)

Supporting Character(s)

• Rip Carter (last appearance in Detective Comics #65; next appearance in Detective Comics #67)

Villain(s)

• Major Von Bruhte and various Nazi soldiers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A unit of Allied commandos (no further appearances)
• Casey 39 (a reporter from 3045 A.D.; no further appearances)
• Casey's editor (no further appearances)
• Ramses (a six thousand-year old mummy; no further appearances)
• Radcliffe (a member of British Intelligence; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
A reporter in the year 3045 discovers that a recently unearthed mummy is alive and can talk. The mummy tells him a story about the Boy Commandos.

The Commandos go undercover as arab traders in order to infiltrate the Nazi held city of El Akrab. They destroy Nazi equipment and buildings then escape with a group of Nazi tanks.

Using the tanks the Commandos travel to the Sphinx, which the Nazi’s are using. They defeat the Nazi’s there, and Brooklyn and the Boy Commandos hide from the Nazis for a moment inside the tomb with the mummies.

After the mummy has told his story to Casey 39, the reporter tears up his notes, believing people will think him crazy for writing it.