(May 1997)
- Price
- 1.95 USD; 2.75 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1997-03-26
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 761941200071 09411
- Editing
- Archie Goodwin (credited) (editor); Chuck Kim (credited) (assistant editor); Mike Carlin (credited) (executive editor); Jenette Kahn (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
Stories
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Michael T. Gilbert; Bob Kane (background photomontage); Frank Miller (background photomontage); Neal Adams (background photomontage); Sheldon Moldoff (background photomontage); Fred Ray (background photomontage); Carmine Infantino (background photomontage); Kelley Jones (background photomontage)
- Inks
- Michael T. Gilbert; Bob Kane (background photomontage); Frank Miller (background photomontage); Neal Adams (background photomontage); Sheldon Moldoff (background photomontage); Jerry Robinson (background photomontage); Murphy Anderson (background photomontage); Kelley Jones (background photomontage)
- Colors
- Lynn Varley (background photomontage); Bob LeRose (background photomontage); ?
- Letters
- Todd Klein (sourced); Ira Schnapp (background photomontage); George Roussos (background photomontage)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Julie Madison (in background photomontage); The Monk (in background photomontage); Daphne Pennyworth (in background photomontage); Robin [Dick Grayson] (in background photomontage); Batman [Jean-Paul Valley] (in background photomontage)
- Reprints
-
in Batman: Cover to Cover (DC, 2005 series) ([June] 2005)
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Indexer Notes
Cover background is photomontage of earlier Batman covers including:
First row - Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #31 (by Bob Kane), Batman: The Dark Knight (DC, 1986 series) #2 (by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley), and Batman (DC, 1940 series) #227 (by Neal Adams).
Second row - Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #235 (by Sheldon Moldoff and Ira Schnapp) and Batman (DC, 1940 series) #10 (by Fred Ray, Jerry Robinson and George Roussos).
Third row - Batman (DC, 1940 series) #199 (by Carmine Infantino, Murphy Anderson and Ira Schnapp) and Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #668 (by Kelley Jones and Bob LeRose).
Stories
Batman / comic story / 25 pages
- Script
- Michael T. Gilbert (credited as Michael Gilbert) (signed as
[face] MICHAEL T. Gilbert) - Pencils
- Michael T. Gilbert (credited as Michael Gilbert) (signed as [face] MICHAEL T. Gilbert)
- Inks
- Michael T. Gilbert (credited as Michael Gilbert) (signed as [face] MICHAEL T. Gilbert)
- Colors
- Digital Chameleon (credited) (separations); Michael T. Gilbert (credited as Michael Gilbert) (signed as [face] MICHAEL T. Gilbert)
- Letters
- Willie Schubert (credited)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Seeing is believing.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Saul Fisher; The Monk; The Bulb; Age O'Quarious; Batman [Jean-Paul Valley]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Gotham City Police Department [Captain James Gordon; unnamed officers]
- Synopsis
- Saul Fisher has written a book like Salman Rushdie's and has a price on his head by religious fantatics. He's trapped by them in an elevator with a bunch of people who tell their stories of how the Batman has saved them over 60 years.
Indexer Notes
Story is dedicated to Neal Pozner and Archie Goodwin, and is homage to earlier artists and writers drawn in styles of Bob Kane, Dick Sprang, Neal Adams and Frank Miller.
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