Batman
#237
(December 1971)
DC,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 32
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly, with the exception of April and October
- On-sale Date
- 1971-10-26
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [character]
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Night of the Reaper!
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-1011
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
- Reprints
-
in Batman (Goodwill Bookstore, 1971 series) #4972 (1972) -
in Lynvingen (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #1/1973 ([januar] 1973) -
in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #262 (April 1975) -
in Batman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #8 (1983) - in Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams (DC, 2003 series) #3 ([March] 2006)
- in Batman: Demoniske møter [Alle Tiders Superhelter] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2006 series) ([august] 2006)
- in Batman Collection - Neal Adams (Panini Deutschland, 2008 series) #3 ([Oktober] 2009)
- in Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams (DC, 2012 series) #3 ([September] 2013)
- in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #6 ([March] 2016)
- in Batman by Neal Adams Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) ([May] 2016)
- in We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust (Yoe Books, 2018 series) (2018)
- in Batman by Neal Adams (DC, 2018 series) #3 ([March] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Night of the Reaper!
Batman / comic story / 25 pages
- Script
- Denny O'Neil; Bernie Wrightson (ideas); Harlan Ellison (ideas)
- Pencils
- Neal Adams
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- S-889
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Tom Fagan; Bernie Wrightson; Alan Weiss; Gerry Conway; Doctor Gruener
- Synopsis
- Dick Grayson and his college friends travel to the Halloween celebration in Rutland Vermont. Robin and Batman get caught between two sides, both looking for revenge against an ex-Nazi officer.
- Reprints
- in Lynvingen (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #1/1973 ([januar] 1973)
- in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-52 ([October] 1977)
-
in Läderlappen (Semic, 1976 series) #11/1981 (Oktober 1981) - in Lynvingen (Semic, 1977 series) #8/1981 (uke 49 1981)
- in Batman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #8 (1983)
- in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #51 (August 1984)
-
in Batman (Editora Abril, 1984 series) #4 (Outubro 1984) -
in Batman (Titan, 1989 series) #2 - Vow from the Grave (August 1989) - in Batman in the Seventies (DC, 1999 series) (1999 [February 2000])
- in Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams (DC, 2003 series) #3 ([March] 2006) which is reprinted
- in Batman Illustrated by Neal Adams (DC, 2012 series) #3 ([September] 2013)
- in Batman: Demoniske møter [Alle Tiders Superhelter] (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2006 series) ([august] 2006) [2. translation]
- in Batman Collection - Neal Adams (Panini Deutschland, 2008 series) #3 ([Oktober] 2009)
- in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #6 ([March] 2016)
- in Batman by Neal Adams Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) ([May] 2016)
- in We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust (Yoe Books, 2018 series) (2018)
- in Swamp Thing Halloween Horror Giant (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2018)
- in Batman by Neal Adams (DC, 2018 series) #3 ([March] 2020)
-
- Keywords
- Halloween parade; masquerade party; Nazi; Rutland Vermont
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Story based on ideas by Bernie Wrightson and Harlan Ellison, per Denny O'Neil's recounting in the letters section. Gerry Conway, Berni Wrightson and Alan Weiss are caricatured in story, as they attended the real Rutland Halloween Parade. Adams draws figures of Captain America, Thor, Spider-Man and Havok in the parade and later at a party. Conway, Wrightson, and Weiss also appear in the Robin story in Batman #239.
[no title indexed]
Letters to the Batman / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Julius Schwartz (signed as JS)
- Pencils
- Anthony Kowalik
- Inks
- Neal Adams
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- S-1030
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from "The Cosmic Addict", Kevin L. Glennon, Kerry O'Conner, Barry Short and Christopher Juricich. Also includes a letter from Denny O'Neil who recounts the real life events that inspired "Night of the Reaper."
[The Screaming House]
Batman / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Bob Kane; Jerry Robinson (backgrounds)
- Inks
- Bob Kane
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Jerry Robinson
- Job Number
- S-1001
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
- Reprints
- from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #37 (March 1940)
-
Indexer Notes
Editor's note in the final panel explains that this was Batman's last solo story before Robin debuted.
Editing
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Table of Contents
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0.
Night of the Reaper!
Batman -
1.
Night of the Reaper!
Batman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Letters to the Batman -
3.
[The Screaming House]
Batman
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