Batman #386 [Canadian]
(August 1985)

DC, 1940 Series
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Price
0.95 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1985-05-09
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893043008
Editing
Len Wein (editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #15.
This issue is a variant of Batman (DC, 1940 series) #386 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

Black Mask! (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Tom Mandrake (signed)
Inks
Tom Mandrake (signed)
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman; Black Mask
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

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Black Mask: Losing Face (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Moench (credited)
Pencils
Tom Mandrake (credited)
Inks
Tom Mandrake (credited)
Colors
Adrienne Roy (credited)
Letters
John Costanza (credited)
Job Number
G-1959
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman; Commissioner Gordon; Harvey Bullock; Black Mask (1st and origin, villain); Lucius Fox
Synopsis
Roman Sionis loses his family's company, Janus Cosmetics, and turns to a life of crime as Black Mask.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story continues in Detective Comics #553.

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

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

Script
Robert Greenberger
Pencils
José Luis García-López
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-2023

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Dale Coe, Rick Oberle, Joe Rusnek, Ronald Bialkowki, T.M. Maple, Susan M. Murrie, Clark A. Novak, John A. Leach, John Fleig and Greg W. Myers.

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

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Black Mask!
    Batman
  2. 1. Black Mask: Losing Face
    Batman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Bat-Signals
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
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