Detective Comics
#356
(October 1966)
DC,
1937 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1966-08-30
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
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Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz
Issue Notes
On-sale date from ad in Batman #185 and copyright registration.
Inside Story of the Outsider!
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino (signed)
- Inks
- Joe Giella (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Outsider
- Reprints
-
in الوطواط [Al-Watwat / The Batman] (المطبوعات المصورة [Al-Matbouat Al-Mousawwara / Illustrated Publications], 1966 series) #26 [mirrored] -
in Lynvingen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1966 series) #8/1967 ([august] 1967) -
in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #2 ([August] 2007), #2 ([August] 2007) - in Tales of the Batman: Carmine Infantino (DC, 2014 series) ([July] 2014)
- in Batman Allies: Alfred Pennyworth (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
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- Keywords
- Go-Go Checks
Inside Story of the Outsider!
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder / comic story / 14.67 pages
- Script
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils
- Sheldon Moldoff (signed as Bob Kane)
- Inks
- Joe Giella
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Outsider (villain); The Grasshopper Gang (villain); Aunt Harriet Cooper
- Synopsis
- Outsider revealed as Alfred. Alfred is "resurrected." The Alfred Foundation renamed as the Wayne Foundation.
- Reprints
- in Lynvingen (Serieforlaget / Se-Bladene / Stabenfeldt, 1966 series) #8/1967 ([august] 1967)
- in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #440 (April-May 1974)
- in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #2 ([August] 2007)
- in Batman Allies: Alfred Pennyworth (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
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Indexer Notes
Credits for script and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Records show that Bob Kane was paid for the pencils, but scholars agree that pencils were actually by Moldoff.
Story in two parts: unnumbered part 1 (7.67 pp.), Part 2 (7 pp.).
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Guy H. Lillian III, Steve Vance, Rick Wood and A. J. Burnett.
Truth Behind the False Faces!
The Elongated Man / comic story / 8.67 pages
- Script
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino (signed)
- Inks
- Carmine Infantino (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Sue Dibny
- Reprints
- in Showcase Presents: The Elongated Man (DC, 2006 series) #1 ([September] 2006)
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Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Inside Story of the Outsider!
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder -
1.
Inside Story of the Outsider!
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder -
2.
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line -
3.
Truth Behind the False Faces!
The Elongated Man
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- Katie
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Dave Marchand
- Lou Mazzella
- Matthew Peets
- David Sorochty
- Jim Van Dore
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