Comic Title: Detective Comics #82
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: December 1943
Approx. On Sale Date: October 22, 1943 Copyright Date October 19, 1943
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1943
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: 56
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Romance of Rip Carter"
Pages: 11

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

Writer/Penciller: Joe Simon
Inker: Jack Kirby

Reprinted In:
Mister Miracle #4 (1971)
America at War:The Best of DC War Comics HC (1979)
America at War:The Best of DC War Comics SC (1979)
Boy Commandos by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby Vol. 2 HC (2016)

Feature Character(s)

• Boy Commandos (last appearance in Detective Comics #81; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #12)
• Andre Chavard (last appearance in Detective Comics #81; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #12)
• Alfy Twidgett (last appearance in Detective Comics #81; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #12)
• Brooklyn (last appearance in Detective Comics #81; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #12)
• Jan Haasen (last appearance in Detective Comics #81; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #12)

Supporting Character(s)

• Rip Carter (last appearance in Detective Comics #81; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #12)

Villain(s)

• Various Nazi soldiers and pilots (no further appearances)
• Enrico Cardi (a Nazi sympathizer; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Sergeant Hooker, Lieutenant Nevil, an unnamed copilot, and several unnamed military personnel (no further appearances)
• Carlo Giuseppe Tomaso Antonio Ravissi (mayor of Santa Maria; no further appearances)
• Augustino, Rigo and members of the Italian resistance (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Rip Carter and the Boy Commandos are sent on a mission to destroy a Nazi supply tunnel in Italy. Their plane is shot down and the Commandos are forced to bail out. They are found by Italian resistance fighters and returned to the allied forces. Rip reports that his mission to destroy the tunnel has failed, but his commanding officer explains that his wrecked plane the Rosalind K crashed into the tunnel, completing the mission.