Detective Comics #1023 [Lee Bermejo Cardstock Variant Cover]

(September 2020)

[Snowpiercer: Design a Train Car - Part 1] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

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Prelude to Joker War Joker Hears a Who?! (Table of Contents: 2)

Batman / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Peter J. Tomasi (credited)

Pencils

Brad Walker (credited)

Inks

Andrew Hennessy (credited)

Colors

Brad Anderson (credited)

Letters

Rob Leigh (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Owls and bats.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Joker; Talon [Lincoln March]; Hugo Strange; Mad Hatter [Jervis Tetch]; Two-Face [Harvey Dent]; Nightwing [Dick Grayson] (in Batman's vision); Robin [Damian Wayne] (in Batman's vision); Robin [Tim Drake] (in Batman's vision); Alfred Pennyworth (in Batman's vision)

Synopsis

Batman goes after Hugo Strange and the Mad Hatter after learning that they played a role in Harvey's current mental state. Meanwhile, the Joker recruits a Talon to help him with his master plan against Batman.

Reprints

• in Batman: Detective Comics (DC, 2019 series) #5 - The Joker War ([May] 2021)
• in Batman: Detective Comics (DC, 2020 series) #5 - The Joker War ([October] 2023)

Keywords

Court of Owls

Indexer Notes

Journey To...Joker War tie-in

[HBO Max: We've Got the Heroes] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

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You Brought Me the Ocean (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

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[Maintain Social Distance - Cyborg / Green Lantern] (Table of Contents: 5)

Cyborg; Green Lantern / public service announcement / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Tony S. Daniel

Inks

Tony S. Daniel

Colors

Tomeu Morey

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Stay six feet apart

Genre

superhero

Characters

Cyborg [Victor Stone]; Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]

Indexer Notes

Two-page public service announcement from DC Comics sparked by the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020 featuring an illustration of Cyborg (standing on the left) while Hal Jordan (standing on the right) projects a large "6 ft" symbol with his power ring to help them maintain their social distance from each other. Do we really believe Vic's high-powered computer brain can't calculate proper distancing without Hal's GL ring assistance?

DCeased: Dead Planet (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

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Green Lantern 80th Anniversary (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Green Lantern / promo (ad from the publisher) / 2 pages (report information)

Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Batman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Batman: The Joker War (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

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Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity Secret Files (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

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[Interview with Tom Taylor] (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

DC Nation / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[Snowpiercer: Design a Train Car - Part 2] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

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Tenet (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

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