Detective Comics
#385
(March 1969)
DC,
1937 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1969-01-30
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Die Small -- Die Big!
Batman / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What are you gaping at?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]
- Reprints
-
in Batman (3ª Série) (Editora Brasil-América [EBAL], 1969 series) #11 -
in Lynvingen (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #3/1970 ([mars] 1970) [edited reprint] -
in Läderlappen (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #3/1970 (1970-03-dd) [with Batgirl figure removed] -
in Batman (Editorial Novaro, 1954 series) #522 (12 de marzo de 1970) -
in Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams (DC, 2003 series) #1 ([November] 2003) - in Showcase Presents: Batgirl (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([September] 2007)
-
in Batman Collection - Neal Adams (Panini Deutschland, 2008 series) #2 ([April] 2009) - in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #4 ([September] 2009)
- in Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams (DC, 2012 series) #1 (2003 [August 2012])
- in Batman by Neal Adams Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) ([May] 2016), ([May] 2016)
- in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2017 [February 2018])
- in Batman by Neal Adams (DC, 2018 series) #1 ([May] 2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Die Small -- Die Big!
Batman / comic story / 14.34 pages
- Script
- Robert Kanigher (credited as Bob Kanigher)
- Pencils
- Bob Brown (credited)
- Inks
- Joe Giella (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Herbert Small (a mailman, death); unnamed gang of thugs (villains)
- Synopsis
- Learning that he is to die soon, and down-hearted because it seems that no one will remember him, Herbert Small tries to convince a group of criminals that he is really Batman in order to save the Caped Crusader's life.
- Reprints
-
in Superman et Batman et Robin (Sage - Sagédition, 1969 series) #9 (septembre 1969) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]] - in Lynvingen (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #3/1970 ([mars] 1970)
- in Läderlappen (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #3/1970 (1970-03-dd)
-
in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #133 ([Circa September 1970]) - in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #257 (July-August 1974)
- in Läderlappen (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #6/1975 ([juni] 1975)
- in Lynvingen (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #6/1975 ([juni] 1975)
- in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #25 (1984)
- in Showcase Presents: Batgirl (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([September] 2007)
- in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #4 ([September] 2009)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Pages 6 and 15 are 2/3-pages.
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Julius Schwartz
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Peter Sanderson, Mark Dillman, William R. Lund and Mark Evanier.
Hunt for the Helpless Hostage!
Batgirl / comic story / 8 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]
- Reprints
- in Lynvingen (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #8/1969 ([august] 1969) [minus page 1]
- in Superman et Batman et Robin (Sage - Sagédition, 1969 series) #9 (septembre 1969) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]]
- in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #122 (Circa October 1969)
- in Batman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #9 (1984)
- in Showcase Presents: Batgirl (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([September] 2007)
- in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2017 [February 2018])
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Story continues from Detective Comics #384.
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Julius Schwartz
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Dave Truesdale and Marion Goldfarb.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Die Small -- Die Big!
Batman -
1.
Die Small -- Die Big!
Batman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line -
3.
Hunt for the Helpless Hostage!
Batgirl -
4.
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Craig Delich
- Gregory Fischer
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Matthew Peets
- Mark Q
- Dave Redmond
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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