Detective Comics #554 [Direct]
(September 1985)

DC, 1937 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.35 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1985-06-04
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Len Wein (editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #16.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Klaus Janson (signed)
Inks
Klaus Janson (signed)
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
Todd Klein
First Line of Dialogue or Text
For the first time anywhere...the all-new Black Canary!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman; Green Arrow; Black Canary
Reprints

Indexer Notes

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

Black Canary's new costume. Cover art is an homage to the cover of Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #92.

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Port Passed (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Moench
Pencils
Klaus Janson
Inks
Klaus Janson
Colors
Klaus Janson
Letters
Todd Klein
Job Number
G-2030
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman; Robin [Jason Todd]; Harvey Bullock; Commissioner Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth
Synopsis
Batman and Robin help Gotham PD stop a group of smugglers who have taken hostages aboard an oceanliner and threatened to blow up the Gotham Bay.
Reprints

Crazy from the Heat II: The Past is Prologue (Table of Contents: 2)

Black Canary and Green Arrow / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Joey Cavalieri
Pencils
Jerome Moore
Inks
Bruce Patterson
Colors
Shelley Eiber
Letters
Bob Lappan
Job Number
G-2023
Genre
superhero
Characters
Black Canary; Green Arrow; Bonfire
Reprints

Indexer Notes

New costume for the Black Canary, after she discovers her true origin in Justice League of America #220.

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

Detective Comments / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Greenberger
Pencils
José Luis García-López
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-2059

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Rachelle Varia, Jonathan Malcolm Lampley, Gordon Symons, Dale Coe, Charles D. Brown, Stephen Scott Beau Smith, T. M. Maple and Susan M. Murrie.

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

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["For the first time anywhere...the all-new Black Canary!"]
    Batman
  2. 1. Port Passed
    Batman
  3. 2. Crazy from the Heat II: The Past is Prologue
    Black Canary and Green Arrow
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Detective Comments
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
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