Detective Comics
#506
[British]
(September 1981)
DC,
1937 Series
- Volume
- 45
- 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
- Dick Giordano; Dave Manak (associate editor)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #506 [Direct].
There exist further variants:
Who Dies for the Manikin?
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-670
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Manikin [Miranda]
- Reprints
-
in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #15 (1982) -
in Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway (DC, 2017 series) #2 ([October] 2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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Who Dies for the Manikin?
Batman / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- J-7385
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Fire Marshal Halsey; Hamilton Hill; Arthur Reeves; Olivia Ortega; Alfred Pennyworth; Crystal; Kevin Clane [Kelvin Cline] (death); Manikin [Miranda] (intro, villain); Selina Kyle [Catwoman]; Hoston
- Synopsis
- Batman battles a living manikin who is committing murders in the fashion industry.
- Reprints
- in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #15 (1982)
-
in Batman collection Le Justicier (Sage - Sagédition, 1982 series) #4 - Le Mannequin (décembre 1982) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]] - in Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway (DC, 2017 series) #2 ([October] 2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues in next issue.
Manikin's murder victim is named Kevin Clane here, but in the next issue he is referred to Kelvin Cline.
Farewell, My Lovely
Batgirl / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-7489
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]
- Reprints
- in Batman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #5 (1982)
-
in Batgirl and Robin (K. G. Murray, 1982 ? series) (February 1982) - in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([May] 2019)
-
[no title indexed]
Batcave / letters page / 0.5 page
- Script
- Dick Giordano
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-839
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Joshua Bilmes and "McIntosh" Mark Amundsen.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Who Dies for the Manikin?
Batman -
1.
Who Dies for the Manikin?
Batman -
2.
The Robot Master
Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman -
3.
Farewell, My Lovely
Batgirl -
4.
[no title indexed]
Batcave
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- Jim Van Dore
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