Detective Comics #575

(June 1987)

Batman Year Two, Chapter One: Fear the Reaper (Table of Contents)

Batman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Mike W. Barr

Pencils:

Alan Davis

Inks:

Paul Neary

Colors:

Adrienne Roy

Letters:

Richard Starkings

Job Number:

G-3050

Content Information

Genre:

Superhero

Characters:

Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Commissioner Jim Gordon; Rachel Caspian; Reaper [Judson Caspian]; Leslie Thompkins; Alfred Pennyworth; Thomas Wayne (in portrait); Martha Wayne (in portrait)

Synopsis:

A vigilante called the Reaper, who operated in Gotham City twenty years earlier, re-emerges just as Bruce Wayne begins a relationship with Rachel Caspian, though neither Bruce nor Rachel know that her father is the Reaper. After being badly beaten by the Reaper in their first encounter, Batman decides to use the very gun used to kill his parents to bring the Reaper down.

Reprinted:

• in Batman: Year Two (DC, 1990 series) #nn
• in Batman Year Two: Fear the Reaper (DC, 2002 series) #[nn]
• In Batman (Grupo Editorial Vid, 1987 series) #21
• in DC Retroactive: Batman - The '80s (DC, 2011 series) #1

Indexer Notes

Companion and follow-up to Batman: Year One just finished in Batman 404-407.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

? (see notes)

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

L-2715

Indexer Notes

Letters from Kevin Hall, Vincent R Bellizia, Jr., Dale Coe, Jay Neale III, Fred L. DeBoom, and Bob Shubnowski, with responses from Barbara Randall and a "From the Den" editorial by Denny O'Neil.