Millennium Edition: Detective Comics No. 395 [Direct Sales]

(June 2000)

Detective Comics #395 O'Neil and Adams Come to Gotham City (Table of Contents: 1)

Remembering the Millennium / text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Robert Greenberger (credited)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

An overview of the context of this issue and the changes to Batman during the 1960s; also talking about the specific stories and the credits. This was also the first of the Millennium Editions to be voted on by the fans, and received nearly three times as many of the over 6,000 votes cast as the next runner-up, Wonder Woman #178. Appears on inside front and back covers.

The Secret of the Waiting Graves (Table of Contents: 2)

Batman / comic story / 15.17 pages (report information)

Script

Denny O'Neil (credited)

Pencils

Neal Adams (credited)

Inks

Dick Giordano (credited)

Colors

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Letters

Ben Oda

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

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #395 (January 1970)

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. In this Millennium Edition, it incorrectly just says "Art by Neal Adams" for this story in the credits on the inside back cover, although Giordano's inking credit still appears on the reprinted sequence.

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 this issue.

Drop Out... or Drop Dead! (Table of Contents: 3)

Robin / comic story / 7.67 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Robbins (credited)

Pencils

Gil Kane (credited)

Inks

Murphy Anderson (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

John Costanza

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

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #395 (January 1970)

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! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

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Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

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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)

Keywords

blackmail; crime detection techniques; F.B.I.; forgery

Indexer Notes

This filler was also reprinted in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #395 (January 1970), which is why they reproduced it in this Millennium Edition.

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.

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