The Detective Phase - Episode 2: The Riddler

About this episode

Mike Garvey discusses the debut of The Riddler in Detective Comics #140.

Join Mike Garvey for a new episode of The Detective Phase, this time covering the debut of The Riddler in Detective Comics #140, released August 1948! Intro and Background: 2:16 - 4:22 Story Synopsis: 4:23 - 12:43 Analysis: 13:38 - 26:46 Mailbag and Sign-off: 26:57 - 28:45 Sources:* Information sourced from Mike’s Amazing World of Comics on this issue can be found here. * Information sourced from Grand Comics Database on this issue can be found here.

People in this episode

Host: Mike Garvey

Topics covered

• The Riddler
• Detective Comics
• comic book analysis
• character debut
• story synopsis

Keywords

• The Riddler
• Detective Comics
• comic book history
• August 1948
• character analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Detective Comics #140

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