Detective Comics #586 [Direct]
(May 1988)

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Price
0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1988-02-02
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Denny O'Neil (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #48, confirmed from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Norm Breyfogle (signed)
Inks
Norm Breyfogle (signed)
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Ratcatcher [Otis Flannegan]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

Rat Trap (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
John Wagner; Alan Grant
Pencils
Norm Breyfogle
Inks
Norm Breyfogle
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
Todd Klein

Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Ratcatcher [Otis Flannegan]; Commissioner James Gordon; Officer Straub; Nat Devino (sanitation worker, death); Mr. Woller (sanitation department night supervisor); Stanley Konik (prison guard); Sergeant Sam Bellow; Cornelius Budd (death)
Synopsis
The Batman battles Ratcatcher and his rats in the sewers, where Ratcatcher has imprisoned those he feels were responsible for sending him to prison.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Detective Comments / letters page / 1.75 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Raspler
Pencils
José Luis García-López
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
L-3090

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Mc, Steven W. Ebner, Hurricane Heeran, John Miller, John Egan and Kiril Kundurazieff.

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

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Average # copies per issue, previous year - 128,475.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Batman
  2. 1. Rat Trap
    Batman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Detective Comments
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Peter Croome
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Lou Mazzella
  • John Monagle
  • Jim Van Dore