Batman
#448
[Newsstand]
(Early June 1990)
DC,
1940 Series
- Price
- 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 070989304307 23
- Editing
- Denny O'Neil (editor); Dan Raspler (associate editor)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Batman (DC, 1940 series) #448 [Direct].
The Penguin Affair 1 of 3
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Norm Breyfogle (signed)
- Inks
- Norm Breyfogle (signed)
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin
- Letters
- Todd Klein
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot]; Harold
- Reprints
-
in Batman (Juniorpress, 1984 series) #36 (week 09 1991) -
in Batman (Editora Abril, 1990 series) #14 (Março 1991) -
in Batman Sonderband (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1989 series) #28 - Die Pinguin Affäre, Teil 1 (1992) -
in Batman (Grupo Editorial Vid, 1987 series) #131 (Enero 5 de 1993) -
in Legends of the Dark Knight: Norm Breyfogle (DC, 2015 series) #2 (2018 [January 2019]) - in Batman: The Caped Crusader (DC, 2018 series) #3 ([November] 2019), #3 ([November] 2019)
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Indexer Notes
Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin. Letters credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.
![Cover Thumbnail for Batman (DC, 1940 series) #448 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/2/w200/2910.jpg?6053876849284075956)
![Cover Thumbnail for Batman (1940 series) #448 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/856/w100/856112.jpg?4212019713000419553)
The Penguin Affair: I [Chapter One] Pawns
Batman / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Marv Wolfman (co-plotter & writer); Alan Grant (co-plotter)
- Pencils
- Jim Aparo
- Inks
- Mike DeCarlo
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- G-5586
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot] (villain); Lark (Penguin's assistant); Harold (intro); Tim Drake; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Sherry West [Heron] (actress); Clive (actor)
- Synopsis
- The Penguin takes in Harold, a deformed genius, who builds a device that gives Penguin the ability to control birds, which he uses to cause the birds to attack various targets in Gotham.
- Reprints
- in Batman (Juniorpress, 1984 series) #36 (week 09 1991)
- in Batman (Editora Abril, 1990 series) #14 (Março 1991) [original title: Chapter I: Pawns (The Penguin Affair)]
- in Batman Sonderband (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1989 series) #28 - Die Pinguin Affäre, Teil 1 (1992)
- in Batman (Grupo Editorial Vid, 1987 series) #131 (Enero 5 de 1993)
- in Batman: The Caped Crusader (DC, 2018 series) #3 ([November] 2019)
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Indexer Notes
Harold eventually moves into the Bat-cave as one of Batman's assistants, to maintain & build Batman's equipment.
The Penguin Affair story continues in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #615.
[no title indexed]
Bat-Signals / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- KC Carlson (replies); Denny O'Neil
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-5586
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from David Malone, Julio Diaz, M.W. Simcox, Melissa Page, Mic McConnell, J.C. "Jude" Huang, Victor J. Miller and Patrick Carter. Includes "From the Den" column.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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The Penguin Affair 1 of 3
Batman -
1.
The Penguin Affair: I [Chapter One] Pawns
Batman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Bat-Signals
This issue was modified by
- Katie
- Jochen G.
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
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