Detective Comics
#489
(April 1980)
DC,
1937 Series
- Volume
- 44
- Price
- 1.00 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1980-01-22
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893046504
- Editing
- Paul Levitz (editor); Joe Orlando (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #176.
[no title indexed]
Batgirl; Robin / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ross Andru (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino; typeset
- Job Number
- C-283
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- With your memory destroyed, my secret's safe!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Batman (small image)
- Reprints
-
in Batman (Editorial Bruguera, 1979 series) #17 -
in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([May] 2019) - in Robin: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
Creatures of the Night!
Batman / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-6414
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne; also as Matches Malone]; Moon the Mystic; Ivorn
- Synopsis
- There's a vampire roaming Gotham City but Batman doesn't believe it.
- Reprints
-
in Batman Classics (Classics/Williams, 1970 series) #127 (1980) -
in Läderlappen (Semic, 1976 series) #11/1980 (Oktober 1980) -
in Lynvingen (Semic, 1977 series) #11/1980 (uke 43 1980) -
in Batman (Editions Héritage, 1982 series) #1 (Septembre 1982)
-
- Keywords
- vampires
The Borrower
Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; Borrower
- Synopsis
- The only way Wonder Woman can stop the Borrower long enough to capture him is to set out some Twinkies so he takes a snack break.
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for Hostess Twinkies in sequential art form.
Copyright © 1980 Continental Baking Company
When the Inmates Run the Madhouse!
Tales of Gotham City / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-6211
- Genre
- drama; crime
- Characters
- Commissioner James Gordon; Charlie Morgan; Goldie Rivers; Monk Nichols; Warden Michael Pendergast
- Synopsis
- Ex-con Charlie Morgan blames Gordon for his brother's death during a robbery, so he arranges a prison riot to lure Gordon to the facility to exact his revenge.
- Reprints
-
in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #31 (septembre 1980)
-
- Keywords
- prison; revenge; riots
Indexer Notes
This story is billed on the cover of this issue as Commissioner Gordon's first solo story.
The Mind Warp Mystery
Batgirl; Robin / comic story / 15 pages
- Job Number
- J-6351
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Commissioner James Gordon; Professor Theel; Mr. Boyde; McCabe (death); Reynolds (death)
- Synopsis
- Dick Grayson asks one of his college professors who is involved in memory research to consult on a case, but in the process Batgirl's memories are erased by the professor, who learns Batgirl's and Robin's secret identities from the stolen memories. Later, Batgirl's memories are restored, except for the memory of Batman and Robin's secret identities.
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #11/1980 (29. Mai 1980) - in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #31 (septembre 1980)
- in Batman (Editions Héritage, 1982 series) #7
- in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([May] 2019)
- in Robin: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
- Keywords
- memories
[no title indexed]
Batcave / letters page / 1.7 pages
- Script
- Paul Levitz
- Pencils
- ? (logo illustration)
- Inks
- ? (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ? (logo illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-453
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Brian Nelson, Jeffrey Lowndes and Dean Schopp.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.3 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Statement of October 1, 1979
Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 79,872
Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date (total paid circulation): 90,197
Owner: DC Comics, Inc., wholly owned by Warner Communications, Inc., a publicly-held company, both at 75 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y., N.Y. 10019
Computer Crisis
The Atom / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Bob Rozakis
- Pencils
- Alex Saviuk
- Inks
- Vince Colletta
- Colors
- Bob LeRose
- Letters
- Milt Snapinn
- Editing
- Ross Andru (guest editor)
- Job Number
- J-6271
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Dharlu aliens
- Synopsis
- While on monitor duty in the Justice League satellite, the Atom discovers baby Dharlu aliens in the computer.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- computers; JLA Satellite
Indexer Notes
The Dharlu first appeared in Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #130.
Feature next appears in Action Comics starting with #513.
The Bogus Butlers
Batman's Butler Alfred / comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- J-6458
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Alfred Pennyworth; Robin
- Synopsis
- When Alfred sees a newspaper photo of a butler arrested for robbery, the butler appears to be Alfred himself, so he sets out to solve the mystery.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #9/1980 (30. April 1980)
- in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #31 (septembre 1980)
- in Batman (Editions Héritage, 1982 series) #1 (Septembre 1982)
-
Where Strike the Assassins
Batman / comic story / 10 pages
- Job Number
- J-6407
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; League of Assassins; Bronze Tiger [Ben Turner]; Alfred Pennyworth; Sensei; Barton McManus
- Synopsis
- Batman searches for a geologist who has been kidnapped by Sensei and the League of Assassins.
- Reprints
- in Batman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #2 (1980)
- in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #31 (septembre 1980)
-
in Batman Album (K. G. Murray, 1976 series) #50 ([April 1981] ?) - in Batman: Tales of the Demon (Warner Books, 1992 series) (1991)
- in Batman: Tales of the Demon (DC, 1991 series) ([May] 1991)
- in Tales of the Batman: Don Newton (DC, 2011 series) (2011 [February 2012])
- in Batman: Tales of the Demon (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
- Keywords
- roller coasters
Indexer Notes
Story continues in next issue.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["With your memory destroyed, my secret's safe!"]
Batgirl; Robin -
1.
Creatures of the Night!
Batman -
2.
The Borrower
Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman -
3.
When the Inmates Run the Madhouse!
Tales of Gotham City -
4.
The Mind Warp Mystery
Batgirl; Robin -
5.
[no title indexed]
Batcave -
6.
[no title indexed]
-
7.
Computer Crisis
The Atom -
8.
The Bogus Butlers
Batman's Butler Alfred -
9.
Where Strike the Assassins
Batman
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