Detective Comics
#400
(June 1970)
DC,
1937 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1970-04-30
- 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 (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Keywords anniversary issue
Challenge of the Man-Bat!
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-439
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; Man-Bat
- Reprints
-
in Batman (3ª Série) (Editora Brasil-América [EBAL], 1969 series) #19 -
in Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams (DC, 2003 series) #2 ([August] 2004) - in Batman: Cover to Cover (DC, 2005 series) ([June] 2005)
-
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 by Neal Adams Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) ([May] 2016)
- in Batman Arkham: Man-Bat (DC, 2017 series) ([March] 2017)
- in Batman by Neal Adams (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([March] 2019)
- in Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman (DC, 2019 series) ([May] 2019)
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Challenge of the Man-Bat
Batman / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Frank Robbins (credited)
- Pencils
- Neal Adams (credited)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- S-349
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Man-Bat (origin, introduction); Batman; Alfred Pennyworth; the Blackout Gang
- Reprints
-
in Batman Classics (Classics/Williams, 1970 series) #13 (1971) -
in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #144 ([Circa August 1971]) - in The Batman Family (DC, 1975 series) #1 (September-October 1975)
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #25/1975 (6. Dezember 1975)
- in Batman and Robin (K. G. Murray, 1976 series) #6 ([September 1977] ?)
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in The Super Heroes (Egmont UK, 1980 series) #v1#4 (1981) - in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #16 (1982)
- in Man-Bat (DC, 1984 series) #1 (December 1984)
- in Batman (Editora Abril, 1984 series) #8 (Fevereiro 1985)
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in Super Star Comics (Arédit-Artima, 1986 series) #2 (avril 1986) - in Batman (Titan, 1989 series) #1 - Challenge of the Man-Bat (June 1989)
- 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) #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 by Neal Adams Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) ([May] 2016)
- in Batman Arkham: Man-Bat (DC, 2017 series) ([March] 2017)
- in Batman by Neal Adams (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([March] 2019)
- in Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman (DC, 2019 series) ([May] 2019)
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Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Many panels are reprinted in Batman: Robin Meets Man-Bat! [Book and Record Set] (Peter Pan, 1976 series) #PR30.
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line / letters page / 2 pages
- Job Number
- S-451
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Jack Stein, Steve Beery, Leonard Uhley, Alan Brennert, Scott Gibson, Andy Friedman and Pam Kao.
A Burial for Batgirl!
Batgirl; Robin / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- S-390
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Hank Osher; Jack Markham; Amos Willard; Professor Huntington
- Synopsis
- Barbara Gordon has come to Hudson University to help with a Edgar Allan Poe festival. She discovers a murder and captures Hank Osher, who appears to be the murderer. Batgirl begins to believe that Hank has been framed and investigates further, which leads to her being captured and bricked into a wall.
- Reprints
- in Batman Classics (Classics/Williams, 1970 series) #10 (1971)
- in Lynvingen (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #3/1971 ([mars] 1971)
- in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #143 (Circa July 1971)
- in Batman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #5 (1982)
- in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #30 (November 1982)
- in Showcase Presents: Batgirl (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([September] 2007)
- in Showcase Presents: Robin the Boy Wonder (DC, 2008 series) #1 ([March] 2008)
- in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2017 [February 2018])
- in Robin: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
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Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Team-up between Batgirl and Robin; story continues in Detective Comics #401. Caricatures of Julie Schwartz and Gil Kane appear on page 5.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Challenge of the Man-Bat!
Batman -
1.
Challenge of the Man-Bat
Batman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line -
3.
A Burial for Batgirl!
Batgirl; Robin
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- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
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- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
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- Matthew Peets
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
- Karsten S.
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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