Detective Comics
#482
(February-March 1979)
DC,
1937 Series
- Volume
- 42
- Price
- 1.00 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bi-monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1978-11-07
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893046503
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Paul Levitz (editor); Julius Schwartz (contributing editor); Al Milgrom (contributing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #162.
[no title indexed]
Batman / cover / 2 pages
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler (signed as Rich)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed as Dick)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- John Workman
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Xavier Simon (in a gorilla's body); Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; The Demon [Jason Blood]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Raven (villain); Bat-Mite
- Reprints
-
in Batman Pocketbook (Egmont/Methuen, 1978 series) #5 (1979) -
in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #5 (1979) -
in Batman Arkham: Joker's Daughter (DC, 2017 series) (2017 [February 2018]) - in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([May] 2019)
- in Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman (DC, 2019 series) ([May] 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Wraparound cover.
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
Batcave
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Introduction and contents page on inside front cover.
Night of the Body Snatcher!
Batman / comic story / 20 pages
- Script
- Jim Starlin
- Pencils
- Jim Starlin (layouts)
- Inks
- P. Craig Russell (finished art)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Karin Kish
- Job Number
- J-5508
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Xavier Simon; James Gordon
- Reprints
- in Batman Pocketbook (Egmont/Methuen, 1978 series) #5 (1979) [One page cut.]
- in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #5 (1979)
-
in Batman Classics (Classics/Williams, 1970 series) #125 (1980) -
in Läderlappen (Semic, 1976 series) #9/1980 (Augusti 1980) -
in Lynvingen (Semic, 1977 series) #9/1980 (uke 35 1980) - in DC Goes Ape (DC, 2008 series) #1 ([December] 2008)
-
A Quick Death in China!
Batgirl / comic story / 11 pages
- Job Number
- J-5562
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Senator Thomas Cleary [Tom]; Leslie Tauburn; Tony Gordon; Wo Fong; the Sino-Superman; Lewis Efrem; Batman [Bruce Wayne] (cameo); Commissioner James Gordon (cameo); Dick Grayson (cameo); Hiro Yoshita (news anchor)
- Synopsis
- Wo Fong has captured Barbara and Leslie, Barbara because he believes he can use her to lure her brother Tony out of hiding, and Leslie because he believes that she is secretly Batgirl.
- Reprints
- in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([May] 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Barbara learns that her brother Tony whom she believed to be dead, was actually living under an assumed name hiding out from the Chinese government whom he had spied against (as first revealed in The Batman Family #12). Unfortunately, it appears that Tony does die while rescuing Barbara at the end of this story.
The Eternity Book
The Demon / comic story / 15 pages
- Job Number
- J-5494
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Demon [Jason Blood]; Baron Tyme (villain); Merlin; Morgaine Le Fay; Aldo Beckerman; Randu Singh; Glenda Mark; Henry Matthews
Bat-Mite's New York Adventure!
Bat-Mite / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- J-5491
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Bob Rozakis (introduction); Michael Golden (introduction); Bob Smith (introduction); Milt Snapinn (introduction); Anthony Tollin (introduction); Todd Klein (production); Al Milgrom (editor); Jack Harris (diaper changer); Bat-Mite
- Reprints
- in Batman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #3 (1981)
- in The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (DC, 1988 series) ([December] 1988)
- in The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (Warner Books, 1989 series) #[nn] ([June] 1989)
- in The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (DC, 1989 series) #[1] (1988 [August 1989])
- in World's Funnest (DC, 2016 series) ([May] 2016)
- in Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman (DC, 2019 series) ([May] 2019)
- in Legends of the Dark Knight: Michael Golden (DC, 2019 series) ([July] 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Per letter column in Batman Family #20, story originally planned for Batman Family #23.
The League of Crime!
Robin / comic story / 12 pages
- Job Number
- J-5586
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Robin [Dick Grayson]; Raven (villain); Card Queen [Duela Dent; Harlequin]; Lieutenant Tatem; Maze
- Synopsis
- Robin has encounters with the new villain Raven, and a new heroine, Card Queen, unaware that both are actually agents of Maze.
- Reprints
- in Batman Pocket (Classics/Williams, 1979 series) #1 (1979), #1 (1979)
- in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #6 (1979)
- in Batman Arkham: Joker's Daughter (DC, 2017 series) (2017 [February 2018])
- in Robin: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
[no title indexed]
Batcave / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Paul Levitz (credited as PL)
- Pencils
- Stan Tychinski (logo)
- Inks
- Stan Tychinski (logo)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-196
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Mike Bates, Mike White and Tony Edwards.
Sequence on inside back cover page.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Batman -
1.
Batcave
-
2.
Night of the Body Snatcher!
Batman -
3.
A Quick Death in China!
Batgirl -
4.
The Eternity Book
The Demon -
5.
Bat-Mite's New York Adventure!
Bat-Mite -
6.
The League of Crime!
Robin -
7.
[no title indexed]
Batcave
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lee Lines
- Lou Mazzella
- John Monagle
- Mike Nielsen
- Matthew Peets
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Tony R. Rose
- Allen Ross
- Jim Van Dore
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