Detective Comics
#473
(November 1977)
DC,
1937 Series
- Volume
- 41
- Price
- 0.35 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly (with the exception of July, Oct., Jan. and April)
- On-sale Date
- 1977-08-25
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893046511
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz; E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings. On-sale date of August 24 in Comic Reader #146.
[no title indexed]
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Marshall Rogers (signed)
- Inks
- Marshall Rogers (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- S-2714
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot] (as shadow)
- Reprints
-
in Batman (Editorial Novaro, 1954 series) #951 (2 de diciembre de 1978) [recolored] -
in The Batman Gallery (DC, 1992 series) #1 ([August] 1992) - in Hero Illustrated Special Edition (Warrior Publications, 1993 series) #1 (October 1993) [Reproduced without trade dress and cropped slightly.]
- in Legends of the Dark Knight: Marshall Rogers (DC, 2011 series) (2011 [January 2012])
- in Tales of the Batman: Steve Englehart (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
The Malay Penguin!
Batman / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- S-2681
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot]; Silver St. Cloud; Rupert Thorne; Dr. Bell; Professor Hugo Strange (ghost)
- Synopsis
- Though it seems that the Penguin has designs on the statue The Malay Penguin, Batman decodes the clues the villain drops and puts a stop to his real plot.
- Reprints
-
in Batman Album (K. G. Murray, 1976 series) #43 ([Circa 1977-1978]) -
in Batman Pocketbook (Egmont/Methuen, 1978 series) #2 (1978) -
in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #2 (1978) - in Batman (Editorial Novaro, 1954 series) #951 (2 de diciembre de 1978)
-
in Batman Classics (Classics/Williams, 1970 series) #120 (1980) -
in Läderlappen (Semic, 1976 series) #4/1980 (Mars 1980) -
in Lynvingen (Semic, 1977 series) #4/1980 (uke 15 1980) - in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #14 (July 1981)
-
in Superamigos (Editora Abril, 1985 series) #9 (janeiro 1986) - in Shadow of the Batman (DC, 1985 series) #3 (February 1986) [recolored] which is reprinted
- in Tales of the Batman: Steve Englehart (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
- in The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (DC, 1989 series) #2 ([July] 1992)
- in The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (Warner Books, 1989 series) #2 (July 1992)
- in Batman: Strange Apparitions (DC, 1999 series) (1999 [January 2000]) [as recolored for Shadow of the Batman reprint]
- in Legends of the Dark Knight: Marshall Rogers (DC, 2011 series) (2011 [January 2012])
-
in Batman - Dark Detective (Urban Comics, 2014 series) (octobre 2014) - in DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection (Eaglemoss Publications, 2015 series) #34 - Batman - Im Zeichen des Jokers
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-2722
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Ken Erdely, Rick Peterson, Peter Sanderson, Scott Gibson and Ann Nichols.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Batman -
1.
The Malay Penguin!
Batman -
2.
Cooky La Moo on Broadway
Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman -
3.
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line -
4.
Volume 77 Issue 34 - Week of August 22, 1977
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This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Denys Howard
- R. S. Martin
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Matthew Peets
- Tony R. Rose
- J.D. Sebastian
- Jim Van Dore
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