Marty Moran, Headline Hunter

First appearance: Detective Comics #445
(Cover-dated February-March 1975, but per the GCD on-sale date was November 28, 1974)







Now, this story is a reprint that originally appeared back in 1950, but back then it didn't feature "Marty Moran".






Big Town was actually a radio program in the U.S. that began airing back in the late 1930s, and before it ended it's run on radio in 1952, it was also a television program that ran for several years. The DC comic book based on the radio & TV show lasted for 50 issues.
Why the reprinted story made so many changes from how it originally ran, I don't know. I can only guess that even though the TV show hadn't aired new episodes in well over a decade at that time, there were still issues with the licensing agreement.

In our last episode, . . .

MajorHoy wrote:First appearance: Detective Comics #445
(Cover-dated February-March 1975, but per the GCD on-sale date was November 28, 1974)

Now, here's more of that story from Detective Comics #445 (Cover-dated February-March 1975):






We'll save the ending for another day . . .