Batman #393 [Newsstand]
(March 1986)

DC, 1940 Series
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Price
0.75 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1985-12-05
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893043003
Editing
Len Wein (editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #22.
This issue is a variant of Batman (DC, 1940 series) #393 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Paul Gulacy (signed)
Inks
Paul Gulacy (signed)
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

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The Dark Rider (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Moench (credited)
Pencils
Paul Gulacy (credited)
Inks
Paul Gulacy (credited)
Colors
Adrienne Roy (credited)
Letters
John Costanza (credited)
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman; Commissioner Gordon; Voorloper; Katia; The Dark Rider
Synopsis
Batman travels to Europe to help the CIA and KGB bring down a rouge agent called the Dark Rider.
Reprints
Keywords
Bonn West Germany; CIA; KGB; Moscow Russia; plutonium; Saint Mark's Square; Switzerland; Venice Italy

Indexer Notes

Story continues in Batman #394.

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

Bat-Signals / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Greenberger
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-2210

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Bruce Kimble, D. Fonseca, Susan M. Murrie, Bill Schelly, Link Hullar, S.J. Dutton and Herb Willis.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Batman
  2. 1. The Dark Rider
    Batman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Bat-Signals
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