Detective Comics #588 [Canadian]
(July 1988)

DC, 1937 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Price
1.00 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1988-04-28
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
070989304659 07
Editing
Denny O'Neil; Dan Raspler (assistant)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #137.
This issue is a variant of Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #588 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Norm Breyfogle (signed)
Inks
Norm Breyfogle (signed)
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Corrosive Man [Derek Mitchel]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

Night People, Part Two: The Corrosive Man (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
John Wagner; Alan Grant
Pencils
Norm Breyfogle
Inks
Norm Breyfogle
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
Todd Klein

Job Number
G-3755
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; D. J. Dark; The Corrosive Man [Derek Mitchel] (villain); Da Vinci (firefighter, death); Willy (police officer); unnamed female police officer; Mr. Kadaver (villain); Webley; Legs (hobo); Billy (hobo); California [Dalton Walls] (hobo, death)
Synopsis
Rising from the explosion, Mitchel discovers he has the ability to burn through anything, and is dubbed "The Corrosive Man." Batman tries to stop Mitchel after he inadvertently kills a firefighter and burns 2 police officers, but Mitchel gets away. Blaming Kadaver for the circumstances which transformed him, Mitchel seeks him out to exact revenge. Meanwhile, Kadaver sends his aide Webley to kill a hobo named Dalton Walls.
Reprints

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

Detective Comments / letters page / 1.67 pages (report information)

Script
Dan Raspler
Pencils
José Luis García-López
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
L-3212

Indexer Notes

Includes letters of comment from Dale Coe, Randolph Furan, Paul Carbonaro, Jimmy Fears, Russ Bedell, Jeff Mitchell and Todd Beard. Replies by Dan Raspler.

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

From the Den / text article / 0.33 page (report information)

Script
Denny O'Neil
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Editorial column.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Batman
  2. 1. Night People, Part Two: The Corrosive Man
    Batman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Detective Comments
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    From the Den
This issue was modified by
  • Katie
  • Jim Van Dore