Comic Title: Detective Comics #120
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1947
Approx. On Sale Date: December 27, 1946 Copyright Date December 25, 1946
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1946-1947
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
Contains: Ownership Statement
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "Safe-Cracker by Proxy"
Pages: 6

Feature(s):
Air Wave (of Earth-2)

Artist: Harris Levy

Feature Character(s)

• Air Wave (last appearance in Detective Comics #119; next appearance in Detective Comics #121)

Supporting Character(s)

• Static (last appearance in Detective Comics #119; next appearance in Detective Comics #121)

Villain(s)

• Four bank robbers (Ed named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Monk Morgan (a safe-cracker; no further appearances)
• Bob Ross (a motorist; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Air Wave breaks up a hotel robbery, but the crooks escape. He deduces that they are hiding out in a suspected haunted house. He listens in on their plans, then tries to stop them when they try to crack a bank vault. During the fight, one of the crooks gets trapped inside the vault. Air Wave is forced to reopen the vault in order to save the crook from suffocating. He then continues the fight with the crooks and apprehends them.