Gotham City Sirens #5

(December 2009)

Out of the Pest (Table of Contents: 1)

Gotham City Sirens / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script

Paul Dini

Pencils

Guillem March

Inks

Guillem March

Colors

Tomeu Morey

Letters

Steve Wands

Genre

superhero

Characters

Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Harley Quinn [Harleen Quinzel]; Poison Ivy [Pamela Isley]; The Carpenter [Jenna Duffy]; Joker [Gaggy; Gagsworth A. Gagsworthy] (villain)

Synopsis

Gaggy is revealed to be the Joker who's been trying to kill Harley.

Reprints

• in Gotham City Sirens: Union (DC, 2010 series) ([June] 2010)
• in Gotham City Sirens (Panini Deutschland, 2010 series) #2 - Die guten alten Zeiten (Januar 2011)
• in Gotham City Sirens: Union (DC, 2011 series) ([June] 2011)
• in Gotham City Sirens (DC, 2014 series) #1 ([December] 2014)

A First Look at the Batman / Doc Savage Special #1 (Table of Contents: 2)

Batman; Doc Savage / preview (from the publisher) / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Brian Azzarello

Pencils

Phil Noto

Inks

Phil Noto

Colors

Phil Noto

Letters

Clem Robins

Editing

Joey Cavalieri; Chris Conroy (assistant)

Genre

superhero

Characters

Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Doc Savage

Indexer Notes

5 page preview of Batman / Doc Savage Special (DC, 2010 series) #1.

DC Nation [189]: "As it is my turn, honor and duty to deliver a memorable DC Nation (Table of Contents: 3)

DC Nation / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Script

Simona Martore

Pencils

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Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Characters

Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Starman

Indexer Notes

The author discusses projects for Starman and Catwoman, using French and Italian. Appears on page 42 in this issue. Here are the official translations, from DC's The Source blog (http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2009/10/30/dc-nation-international-martores-m…):
TRANSLATION: Do you have a multilingual dictionary with you? Very good! Let's begin, then. I will start writing in French, which is the most beautiful language in the world. What I'd like to do is to tell you something about a night, the darkest of them all, when some black rings caused hell in the heroes' world. Once upon a time, there was a superhero named Starman. After his death, he came back several times under different names. I am very happy to announce that one of his incarnations is coming back, but this time, he will do something strange and terrifying! Our superhero will behave in a peculiar manner and will have an interesting encounter with an old, Irish friend and another character who’s very dark in his own way. This new Starman episode will be written by the magic hand of James Robinson.
TRANSLATION: And what about Italian? Do you speak it better than I do? Perhaps. However, as it's my mother tongue, I feel obliged to honor the country of spaghetti and Roman emperors and to annoy you even further by writing something in a language that probably sounds like Latin gibberish to many [of] you. Let's start then. Speaking of blackest nights again…I am always very excited at the idea of reading a story that has a solid and original plot, and I think that this time I am dealing with something like that. In fact, a new adventure featuring Catwoman, associated somehow to a "dark night" and written by Fabian Nicieza, is going to be presented to you very soon. This time, our favorite feline will have to face an old enemy who is known for his passion for artifacts generally used ornamentally.