- Script
- Paul Levitz
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-222
Introduction and contents page on inside front cover.
- Script
- Denny O'Neil
- Pencils
- Don Newton
- Inks
- Dan Adkins
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy
- Letters
- Todd Klein
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz
- Job Number
- J-5651
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Leslie Thompkins; Thomas Wayne (flashback); Martha Wayne (flashback); Joe Chill (flashback); Maxie Zeus (introduction); Long John Logan
- Synopsis
- On the anniversary of his parents' deaths, Batman returns to Crime Alley to visit Leslie Thompkins, and discovers that Maxie Zeus is planning to take out a former associate with a plan that endangers innocent lives.
- Reprints
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Schwartz was the editor on this title prior to Paul Levitz.
Origin recap. Leslie Thompkins and Crime Alley previously appeared in Detective Comics #457.
- Script
- Len Wein
- Pencils
- Howard Chaykin
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- Glynis Oliver
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- J-5570
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Human Target [Christopher Chance]; Brad Nayle; Jessica Kincaid
- Synopsis
- Chance takes on the identity of Hollywood stuntman Brad Nayle to discover who's trying to kill him.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Hollywood; stuntmen
Feature continues from The Brave and the Bold (DC, 1955 series) #144 (November 1978).
- Script
- Denny O'Neil
- Pencils
- Dick Dillin
- Inks
- Frank McLaughlin
- Colors
- Gene D'Angelo
- Letters
- Mike Stevens
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz
- Job Number
- S-2995
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; James Gordon; Harcourt Bane ["Swagman" Ginty]; Harrison Juke
- Synopsis
- Gotham City's citizens don't know what to make of a kangaroo race sponsored by Bruce Wayne, but it's an elaborate ploy to allow Batman to capture an arms smuggler and his dealer.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- kangaroos
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Prepared as an entry in "The Public Life of Bruce Wayne" feature.
- Script
- Mike W. Barr
- Letters
- typeset
Inside back cover. Information on 40 years of Detective Comics.
- Letters
- typeset
Inside back cover.
Statement of October 1, 1978
Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 129,792
Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date (total paid circulation): 69,285
Owner: DC Comics, Inc., wholly owned by Warner Communications, Inc., a publicly-held company, both at 75 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y., N.Y. 10019
- Pencils
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Todd Klein
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Robin [Dick Grayson]; James Gordon; Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Riddler [Edward Nigma]; Joker; Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot]
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Bat-Cave; Batmobile
Back cover. Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.