Detective Comics #552 [Canadian]
(July 1985)

DC, 1937 Series
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Price
0.95 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1985-04-25
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

On-sale date from DC Releases #14.
This issue is a variant of Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #552 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Pat Broderick (signed)
Inks
Pat Broderick (signed)
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

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A Stump Grows in Gotham (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Moench
Pencils
Pat Broderick
Inks
Bob Smith
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
John Workman
Job Number
G-1919
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman; Robin [Jason Todd]; Alfred Pennyworth; Julia Pennyworth [Julia Remarque]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Julia Remarque, her step-father's name, uses her father Alfred Pennyworth's name for newspaper articles.

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

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

Script
Robert Greenberger
Pencils
José Luis García-López
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-2000

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Mark Jones, Charles D. Brown, Linda Podell, Mike Griffith, Tony Chung, Bill Knopfhauser, Rick Woodie and Fred Grandinetti.

Sanctuary II: Poor, Huddled Masses (Table of Contents: 3)

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

Script
Joey Cavalieri
Pencils
Jerome Moore
Inks
Bruce Patterson
Colors
Jeanine Casey
Letters
John Costanza
Genre
superhero
Characters
Oliver Queen [Green Arrow]; Dinah Lance [Black Canary]; Onyx

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

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

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Batman
  2. 1. A Stump Grows in Gotham
    Batman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Detective Comments
  4. 3. Sanctuary II: Poor, Huddled Masses
    Green Arrow
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
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