Detective Comics
#420
(February 1972)
- Volume
- 36
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1971-12-30
- 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
Forecast for Tonight -- Murder!
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Neal Adams; Alan Kupperberg (see notes)
- Inks
- Neal Adams
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino (letters, logo design)
- Job Number
- S-1085
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Piet van Doorn; Allan Trevor (as the Batman)
- Reprints
-
in Batman (3ª Série) (Editora Brasil-América [EBAL], 1969 series) #45 -
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) #4 ([Februar] 2010) - 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 Batman by Neal Adams (DC, 2018 series) #3 ([March] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics; original indexer credited the inks to Dick Giordano.
Alan Kupperberg revealed in an interview with Daniel Best that he pencilled the Batman head in the left border on a lark and Neal Adams inked it. The rest of the heads are stock shots pasted in later. The Kupperberg-Adams Batman head was subsequently used on other covers.
Logo design credit from Todd Klein's Logo of the Day #2268 posting to his Facebook page on 8 November 2018.
Forecast for Tonight... Murder!
Batman / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- S-992
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; James Gordon; Piet van Doorn; Allan Trevor
- Reprints
-
in Batman Classics (Classics/Williams, 1970 series) #31 (1972) -
in Batman (Interpresse, 1972 series) #7 (octobre 1972) -
in Batman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1972 series) #10 (juillet 1974) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]] - in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #6 ([March] 2016)
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Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Target for Mañana!
Batgirl / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- S-1065
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Jason Bard; James Gordon; Odds Lanyon; Garcia da Vega; Carlos Da Vega
- Reprints
-
in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #156 (Circa August 1972) - in MV Comix (Egmont Ehapa, 1968 series) #19/1972 (9. September 1972)
- in Showcase Presents: Batgirl (DC, 2007 series) #1 ([September] 2007)
- in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #1 (2017 [February 2018])
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Story continues in Detective Comics #421.
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line / letters page / 2 pages
- Job Number
- S-1093
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Tom Peyser, Jay L. Zilber, Tom Greeniones, Bob Rozakis, Kenneth P. Greene, Pittsburgh Sam, Peter Marzano, Bob Abrahams, Gerard Triano, Jack Stein, Scott Gibson, Allan Ferguson and Mark Lucke.
X Marks the Mystery!
Captain Compass / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- S-1095
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Captain Compass
- Reprints
- from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #215 (January 1955)
-
The Man Who Robbed a Thousand Minds
comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- S-1023
- Genre
- crime
- Reprints
- from Gang Busters (DC, 1947 series) #57 (April-May 1957)
- in Superman Presents World's Finest Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1965 series) #88 ([August 1972])
- in Batman (3ª Série) (Editora Brasil-América [EBAL], 1969 series) #43 (Maio de 1973)
- in Terror Tales Album (K. G. Murray, 1977 series) #9 ([January 1979]) [Job number (S-1023) and “originally published...” caption deleted from this reprint. “A DETECTIVE Extra” banner removed from every page of story.]
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0.
Forecast for Tonight -- Murder!
Batman -
1.
Forecast for Tonight... Murder!
Batman -
2.
Target for Mañana!
Batgirl -
3.
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line -
4.
X Marks the Mystery!
Captain Compass -
5.
The Man Who Robbed a Thousand Minds
- Bruno Andreacchi
- Dwayne Best
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- James Ludwig
- Lou Mazzella
- John Monagle
- Mike Nielsen
- Matthew Peets
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Stangas
- Jim Van Dore
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