Detective Comics #654

[iamrman]

Writer: Chuck Dixon

Pencils: Michael Netzer

Inks: Scott Hanna

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Knightfall prelude.

Batman must deal with a punk kid and his gang shooting up Gotham City.

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Comments

[thanekos]

There's at least a 1917 pulp novel, Edgar Wallace's Kate Plus Ten, that also does " kid leverages military strategy smarts to be great at crime " - though there, the titular kid's " nineteen or twenty ".

Progress of time - opportunities available to youth!