Detective Comics #540 [Canadian]
(July 1984)

DC, 1937 Series
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Price
0.95 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1984-04-26
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893046507
Editing
Len Wein; Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

This issue is a variant of Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #540 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

Fear Is the Key! (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Gene Colan
Inks
Dick Giordano
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
Todd Klein
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Scarecrow [Jonathan Crane]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin. Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.

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Something Scary (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Moench
Pencils
Gene Colan
Inks
Bob Smith
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
Ben Oda
Job Number
G-1200
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Jason Todd]; Scarecrow [Jonathan Crane] (villain); Harvey Bullock
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story continues from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #373.

In Cold Type! (Table of Contents: 2)

Green Arrow / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Joey Cavalieri
Pencils
Shawn McManus
Inks
Sal Trapani
Colors
Shelley Eiber
Letters
Bob Lappan
Genre
superhero
Characters
Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Printer's Devil

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

Detective Comments / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Len Wein
Pencils
José Luis García-López
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-1676

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Chuck Sholea, Jeffrey Lowndes, Christopher Melchert, David Sheedy, S. Kenneth Kawano, Aisha Cruz and T. M. Maple.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

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

Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. Fear Is the Key!
    Batman
  2. 1. Something Scary
    Batman
  3. 2. In Cold Type!
    Green Arrow
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Detective Comments
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
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