Batman #319
(January 1980)

DC, 1940 Series
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Volume
41
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1979-10-09
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893043001
Editing
Joe Orlando (managing editor); Paul Levitz (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #173.
This issue has variants:

The Return of the Gentleman Ghost! (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Joe Kubert (signed)
Inks
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors
Tatjana Wood
Letters
Todd Klein
Job Number
C-229
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Gentleman Ghost
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin. Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.

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Never Give Up the Ghost! (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Len Wein
Pencils
Irv Novick
Inks
Bill Wormstedt (assist, pp. 11-12); Bob Smith
Colors
Glynis Oliver
Letters
Ben Oda
Job Number
J-6275 ?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne; Gentleman Ghost (villaim); Selina Kyle [Catwoman]; Alfred Pennyworth; Lucius Fox
Reprints

The Stony-Eyed Medusa (Table of Contents: 2)

The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Curt Swan
Inks
Vince Colletta
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Bat-Signals / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Paul Levitz
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-406

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.6 page (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis
Letters
typeset
Job Number
F-113
Genre
humor

Indexer Notes

DC questions and answers.

Number 53 Alex Saviuk (Table of Contents: 5)

DC Profiles / in-house column / 0.4 page (report information)

Script
Mike Catron ?
Letters
typeset
Genre
biography

Indexer Notes

Script credit suggested by Michael Catron.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Return of the Gentleman Ghost!
    Batman
  2. 1. Never Give Up the Ghost!
    Batman
  3. 2. The Stony-Eyed Medusa
    The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Bat-Signals
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    The Answer Man
  6. 5. Number 53 Alex Saviuk
    DC Profiles
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  • Per Sandell
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  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore
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