Detective Comics
#540
[Direct]
(July 1984)
- Price:
- 0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.30 GBP
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- DC Comics, Inc.
- Brand:
- DC [bullet]
- Editing:
- Len Wein
- Color:
- Color
- Dimensions:
- Standard Golden Age US; Standard Silver Age US; Standard Modern Age US
- Paper Stock:
- Newsprint; Glossy
- Binding:
- Saddle-stitched; Squarebound
- Publishing Format:
- Was Ongoing Series
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Something Scary
Batman / comic story / 16 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Doug Moench
- Pencils:
- Gene Colan
- Inks:
- Bob Smith
- Colors:
- Adrienne Roy
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
- Job Number:
- G-1200
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Batman; Robin [Jason Todd]; Scarecrow (villain); Harvey Bullock
Indexer Notes
Continued from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #373.
In Cold Type!
Green Arrow / comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Joey Cavalieri
- Pencils:
- Shawn McManus
- Inks:
- Sal Trapani
- Colors:
- Shelley Eiber
- Letters:
- Bob Lappan
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Printer's Devil
[no title indexed]
Detective Comments / letters page / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Len Wein
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- L-1676
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Chuck Sholea, Jeffrey Lowndes, Christopher Melchert, David Sheedy, S. Kenneth Kawano, Aisha Cruz and T. M. Maple.
Editing
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Batman -
1.
Something Scary
Batman -
2.
In Cold Type!
Green Arrow -
3.
[no title indexed]
Detective Comments
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Jerry Hillegas
- Peter Croome
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Bill Wormstedt
- Bob Klein
- Mike Tiefenbacher
- Jerry Bails (R.I.P.)
- Carl Gafford
- John Greb
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Jeremy Heier
- Chris Launder
- Terry Vraspir
- Craig Delich
- Mike Bowen
- Gregory Fischer
- Dwayne Best
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Gordon
- Max Capp
- Ed Boner
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