Detective Comics
#457
(March 1976)
DC,
1937 Series
- Volume
- 40
- Price
- 0.30 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1975-12-30
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
The Line of DC Super-Stars
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz; E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor); Bob Rozakis (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #125.
[no title indexed]
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-2215
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Thomas Wayne; Martha Wayne; Joe Chill; Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny] (head shot)
- Reprints
-
in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #6 (avril 1977) -
in Läderlappen (Semic, 1976 series) #8/1977 ([juli] 1977) -
in Lynvingen (Semic, 1977 series) #7/1977 ([juli] 1977) -
in The Batman Gallery (DC, 1992 series) #1 ([August] 1992) - in Batman: Cover to Cover (DC, 2005 series) ([June] 2005)
- in Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman (DC, 2019 series) ([May] 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
There Is No Hope in Crime Alley!
Batman / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Denny O'Neil
- Pencils
- Dick Giordano
- Inks
- Dick Giordano; Terry Austin (backgrounds, uncredited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- S-2177
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Leslie Thompkins (introduction); Batman [Bruce Wayne] (one-page origin); Alfred Pennyworth; Thomas Wayne (flashback); Martha Wayne (flashback); Joe Chill (flashback)
- Synopsis
- Origin recap, fills in some more info on Crime Alley, the site of Bruce Wayne's parent's death.
- Reprints
- in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #6 (avril 1977)
- in Läderlappen (Semic, 1976 series) #8/1977 ([juli] 1977)
- in Lynvingen (Semic, 1977 series) #7/1977 ([juli] 1977) which is reprinted
-
in Batman Album (K. G. Murray, 1976 series) #40 ([Circa 1976-1978]) -
in Batman (Editora Abril, 1984 series) #1 (Julho 1984) -
in Batman Sonderausgabe (Egmont Ehapa, 1981 series) #5 (1985) - in The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (DC, 1988 series) ([December] 1988)
- in The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (Warner Books, 1989 series) #[nn] ([June] 1989)
- in The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told (DC, 1989 series) #[1] (1988 [August 1989])
- in Super-Team (Epix, 1992 series) #1/1992 (1992)
-
in Batman (Juniorpress, 1984 series) #66 (1995) - in Batman in the Seventies (DC, 1999 series) (1999 [February 2000])
- in Detective Comics: Batman 80th Anniversary Giant (DC, 2019 series) #1 (2019)
- in Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman (DC, 2019 series) ([May] 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Austin backgrounds per info he provided in his interview in Back Issue #66 (August 2013).
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-2224
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Adam Castro, Tom Mitchell, Scott Jones, Dennis Burke, Geoffrey Peckman, Brian Scott and Fred Schneider.
Justice for All Includes Children!
Superman / public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- advocacy; superhero
Indexer Notes
First of the series, not numbered.
Make Way for the Elongated Woman!
The Elongated Man / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- S-2149
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Elongated Man [Ralph Dibny]; Elongated Woman [Sue Dibny]
- Reprints
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #19/1976 (11. September 1976)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Story continues from Detective Comics #456.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Batman -
1.
There Is No Hope in Crime Alley!
Batman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Batman's Hot-Line -
3.
The Cup Cake Caper
Captain Marvel / Shazam!; Hostess Cup Cakes -
4.
Justice for All Includes Children!
Superman -
5.
Make Way for the Elongated Woman!
The Elongated Man
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