Detective Comics
#497
[British]
(December 1980)
DC,
1937 Series
- Volume
- 44
- Price
- 0.15 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Paul Levitz
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #497 [Direct].
There exist further variants:
[no title indexed]
Batgirl / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jim Aparo (signed)
- Inks
- Jim Aparo (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-454
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon
- Reprints
-
in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #41 (décembre 1981) -
in Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway (DC, 2017 series) #1 ([September] 2017) - in Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo (DC, 2012 series) #3 ([November] 2017)
- in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([May] 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
![Cover Thumbnail for Detective Comics (1937 series) #497 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1012/w100/1012222.jpg?880769219839473403)
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Bad Night in Baja
Batman / comic story / 15 pages
- Job Number
- J-6847 ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Waldo Pepper (hotel owner); Ernie Edwards (thug); Sloan (FBI agent); Witt (FBI agent); The Squid [Clement Carp] (villain); Squid's men; Marie Schneider (newlywed); David (Marie's husband); Mr. Halston
- Synopsis
- Batman travels to Baja Mexico to retrieve stolen US missile launch codes from The Squid who is planning to sell them to the highest bidder. Batman escapes with the documents but is badly wounded and hides out in a seedy hotel with the Squid and his men in pursuit.
- Reprints
-
in Batman's Detective Comics (K. G. Murray, 1981 ? series) ([1981]) -
in Batman Sonderheft (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #22 (1981) -
in Lynvingen (Semic, 1977 series) #6/1981 (uke 36 1981) -
in Läderlappen (Semic, 1976 series) #9/1981 (1981) - in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #40 (octobre 1981)
- in Tales of the Batman: Don Newton (DC, 2011 series) (2011 [February 2012])
- in Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway (DC, 2017 series) #1 ([September] 2017)
-
- Keywords
- Baja; California; Mexico
Indexer Notes
Parody of the Spirit strip, dedicated to Will Eisner.
Superman Saves the Weather Satellites!
Hostess Twinkies; Superman / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman
Barbara Gordon... Murderess!
Batgirl / comic story / 10 pages
- Job Number
- J-6945
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Doreen Gray; James Stein; Robert "Bob" Barton; Detective Cameron; Richard Bender; Assistant District Attorney Charles Turner
- Synopsis
- Detective Cameron investigates Barbara Gordon for the murder of a rival Congressman.
- Reprints
- in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #14 (1981)
- in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #41 (décembre 1981)
- in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([May] 2019)
-
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Batgirl -
1.
Bad Night in Baja
Batman -
2.
Superman Saves the Weather Satellites!
Hostess Twinkies; Superman -
3.
Barbara Gordon... Murderess!
Batgirl -
4.
[no title indexed]
Batcave
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- Jim Van Dore
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