Detective Comics
#395
(January 1970)
DC,
1937 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1969-11-26
- 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 (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #75 and copyright registration.
[The Secret of the Waiting Graves]
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-309
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I offer you immortality -- or instant death! Choose, Batman -- Now!
- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Delores Muerto; falcon; wolves
- Synopsis
- Delores Muerto, accompanied by her deadly falcon and ferocious wolves, has Batman trapped in the basement of an ancient Mexican monastery.
- Reprints
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in Batman (3ª Série) (Editora Brasil-América [EBAL], 1969 series) #14 -
in Superman (Interpresse, 1969 series) #32 -
in Millennium Edition: Detective Comics No. 395 (DC, 2000 series) [Direct Sales] (June 2000) [minus the price and job code] - in Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams (DC, 2003 series) #2 ([August] 2004)
- in Batman: Cover to Cover (DC, 2005 series) ([June] 2005)
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in Batman: Gotiske netter [Alle Tiders Superhelter] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) ([august] 2005) -
in Batman Collection - Neal Adams (Panini Deutschland, 2008 series) #2 ([April] 2009) - in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #5 (2011 [February 2012])
- in Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams (DC, 2012 series) #2 ([June] 2013)
- in Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years (DC, 2014 series) ([September] 2014)
- in Batman Anthologie (Panini Deutschland, 2014 series) (2014)
- in Batman by Neal Adams Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) ([May] 2016)
- in Batman by Neal Adams (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([March] 2019)
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- Keywords
- falcons; Mexico; monastery; mystery; wolves
Indexer Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
The Secret of the Waiting Graves
Batman / comic story / 15.17 pages
- Script
- Denny O'Neil (credited)
- Pencils
- Neal Adams (credited)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- S-250
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A bleak hillside on central Mexico... a pair of open graves... and the shadow of the dread... Batman
- Feature Logo
Batman [fat B]- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Juan Muerto; Dolores Muerto; Pedro Valdes; Manuel
- Synopsis
- Bruce Wayne is invited to a grand fiesta by Mexican socialites Juan and Dolores Muerto. As Batman, he thwarts the assassination of one of the guests and finds that the Muertos have discovered the secret of immortality.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Interpresse, 1969 series) #32
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in Batman Classics (Classics/Williams, 1970 series) #6 (1970) -
in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #130 (Circa June 1970) - in Lynvingen (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #10/1970 ([oktober] 1970)
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in Läderlappen (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #10/1970 (1970-10-dd) - in Batman from the 30s to the 70s (Crown Publishers, 1971 series) (1971)
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in Batman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1972 series) #5 (avril-mai-juin 1973) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]] - in Dynamic Classics (DC, 1978 series) #1 (September-October 1978)
- in Batman Sonderheft (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #13 (1979)
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in The Super Heroes (Egmont UK, 1980 series) #v1#1 ([October] 1980) - in Batman (Editora Abril, 1984 series) #3 (Setembro 1984)
- in The Saga of Ra's Al Ghul (DC, 1988 series) #2 (February 1988)
- in Batman (Titan, 1989 series) #1 - Challenge of the Man-Bat (June 1989)
- in Millennium Edition: Detective Comics No. 395 (DC, 2000 series) (June 2000)
- in Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams (DC, 2003 series) #2 ([August] 2004)
- in Batman: Gotiske netter [Alle Tiders Superhelter] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2005 series) ([august] 2005) [2. translation]
- in Batman Collection - Neal Adams (Panini Deutschland, 2008 series) #2 ([April] 2009)
- in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #5 (2011 [February 2012])
- in Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams (DC, 2012 series) #2 ([June] 2013)
- in Batman: A Celebration of 75 Years (DC, 2014 series) ([September] 2014)
- in Batman Anthologie (Panini Deutschland, 2014 series) (2014)
- in Batman by Neal Adams Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) ([May] 2016)
- in Batman by Neal Adams (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([March] 2019)
- in Batman Antologia (Panini Brasil, 2020 series) ([agosto] 2020)
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- Keywords
- aristocracy; burial ground; death; falcons; frequently reprinted story; illusions; immortality; Mexico; mystery; wolves
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Page 10 is a 2/3-page and page 16 is a 1/2-page.
First line is completed by the feature logo illustration.
"Muerto", fittingly, is the Spanish word for "dead" or "deceased person".
Described as "Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams' First Tale of the Dark Knight" on the cover of Millennium Edition: Detective Comics No. 395 (DC, 2000 Series) June 2000.
Drop Out... or Drop Dead!
Robin / comic story / 7.67 pages
- Script
- Frank Robbins (credited)
- Pencils
- Gil Kane (credited)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- S-229
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dick (Robin) Grayson's first day at Hudson University has been an eventful one!
- Feature Logo
Robin the Boy Wonder [inside bat]- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Jonah Haggenmiller; Firebrand Fran
- Synopsis
- Robin discovers the truth behind the fake cops and demonstrators that created the riot at Hudson University.
- Reprints
- in Batman Classics (Classics/Williams, 1970 series) #5 (1970)
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #7/1970 (4. April 1970)
- in Läderlappen (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #9/1970 ([september] 1970)
- in Lynvingen (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #9/1970 ([september] 1970) [1 page removed]
- in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #160 ([December 1972])
- in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #21 (septembre 1979)
- in Millennium Edition: Detective Comics No. 395 (DC, 2000 series) (June 2000)
- in Showcase Presents: Robin the Boy Wonder (DC, 2008 series) #1 ([March] 2008) [in black and white]
- in Robin: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
- in Robin: 80 Years of the Boy Wonder: The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2020 series) ([November] 2020)
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- Keywords
- college; sixties counterculture; student demonstrations; writing home
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Story continues from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #394.
Crime-Writing Clues!
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-323
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A forger who makes a perfect copy of a victim's signature can easily be apprehended because no one ever signs his name the same way twice.
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Reprints
- from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #168 (December 1964)
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- Keywords
- blackmail; crime detection techniques; F.B.I.; forgery
Indexer Notes
Four panels with captions and dialogue, each depicting a different technique of identifying perpetrators of crimes that involve handwritten or typewritten notes such as forgery or blackmail.
Batman's Hot Line
Batman's Hot-Line / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Julius Schwartz
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- S-322
- Keywords
- letters of comment
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Walt Jaschek, Jeff Kichaven and Rand B. Lee.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[The Secret of the Waiting Graves]
Batman -
1.
The Secret of the Waiting Graves
Batman -
2.
Drop Out... or Drop Dead!
Robin -
3.
Crime-Writing Clues!
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4.
Batman's Hot Line
Batman's Hot-Line
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Matthew Peets
- Allen Ross
- Daniel Thingvold
- Joe Torcivia
- Jim Van Dore
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