Batman
#220
(March 1970)
DC,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly, with the exception of April and October
- On-sale Date
- 1970-01-20
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
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Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in U. S. Copyright Office filings and Comic Reader #76. An ad in Green Lantern #75 reports that the issue would be on sale on January 22.
This Murder Has Been Pre-Recorded!
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Neal Adams; Carmine Infantino (layout)
- Inks
- Neal Adams
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino (logo design, letters)
- Job Number
- S-351
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
- Reprints
-
in Batman (3ª Série) (Editora Brasil-América [EBAL], 1969 series) #17 -
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #24/1970 (20. November 1970) -
in Batman Classics (Classics/Williams, 1970 series) #15 (1971) -
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) - in Batman Collection - Neal Adams (Panini Deutschland, 2008 series) #3 ([Oktober] 2009)
- in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #5 (2011 [February 2012])
- in Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams (DC, 2012 series) #2 (2004 [June 2013])
- 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
- bomb; phone booth; telephone
Indexer Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.Note on layout not confirmed by records.
Per The Comic Reader # 76: the new Batman logo was created by Dick Giordano and Neal Adams and lettered by Gaspar Saladino.
This Murder Has Been ... Pre-Recorded!
Batman / comic story / 21.83 pages
- Job Number
- S-249
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Marla Manning (introduction); Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Tom Sloane; Zachary Nova
- Synopsis
- Marla Manning comes to Bruce Wayne for help finding the killer of Tom Sloane.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #24/1970 (20. November 1970) which is reprinted
- in Batman Classics (Classics/Williams, 1970 series) #15 (1971)
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in Superman et Batman et Robin (Sage - Sagédition, 1969 series) #27 (mars 1971) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]] -
in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #140 (Circa April 1971) - in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #5 (2011 [February 2012])
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Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Story across 23 pages, but pages 8 and 23 are 2/3-pages and page 15 is a 1/2-page.
[no title indexed]
Letters to the Batcave / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-358
Indexer Notes
Letters from Peter G. Haag, Charles Cruz, Gary Skinner, M. D. Kelly, Mike Mallory and Alice Irma Herman.
Letters to the Batcave Extra
Letters to the Batcave / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-345
Indexer Notes
Letters from Martin Pasko and Steve Beery.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.33 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
The average number of copies sold per issue during the previous year was 355,782.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
This Murder Has Been Pre-Recorded!
Batman -
1.
This Murder Has Been ... Pre-Recorded!
Batman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Letters to the Batcave -
3.
Letters to the Batcave Extra
Letters to the Batcave -
4.
[no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- CTGarry
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- R. S. Martin
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Matthew Peets
- Derek Reinhard
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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