Batman
#291
(September 1977)
DC,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 38
- Price
- 0.35 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1977-06-07
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893043009
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz; E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor)
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing and Comic Reader #144.
[no title indexed]
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-2666
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And to think--I killed him!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Riddler [Edward Nigma]; Poison Ivy [Pamela Isley]; Scarecrow [Jonathan Crane]; Lex Luthor; Catwoman [Selina Kyle]; Joker
- Reprints
-
in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #15 (octobre 1978) [Légèrement modifiée/Slightly edited] -
in Batman: Cover to Cover (DC, 2005 series) ([June] 2005) - in Batman: The Strange Deaths of Batman (DC, 2009 series) ([March] 2009) [main image]
- in The Joker: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2019 series) ([October] 2019)
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- Keywords
- grave
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
Where Were You on the Night Batman Was Killed? The Testimony of the Catwoman!
Batman / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- S-2608
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne; also as Two-Face]; Catwoman [Selina Kyle; also as Madame Claudine]; Joker; Riddler [Edward Nigma]; Lex Luthor; Killer Moth [Cameron van Cleer]; Scarecrow [Jonathan Crane]; Cavalier [Mortimer Drake]; Mr. Freeze [Dr. Victor Fries]; Colonel Jake van Cleeve; Spook; Mad Hatter [Jervis Tetch]; Poison Ivy [Pamela Isley]; Signalman [Phil Cobb]; Ra's Al Ghul; Captain Stingaree; Tweedle Dee ?; Tweedle Dum ?; Cody
- Synopsis
- When word spreads throughout the underworld that Batman has been killed, several villains take credit for the deed. So the villain community sets up a trial to test the various claims, with Ra's al Ghul acting as judge and Two-Face acting as prosecutor. First up is the Catwoman. But Two-Face finds the technical error in Catwoman's story and she is dismissed.
- Reprints
-
in Batman Classics (Classics/Williams, 1970 series) #105 (1978) -
in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #1 (1978) - in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #15 (octobre 1978)
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in Läderlappen (Semic, 1976 series) #1/1979 (1979) -
in Lynvingen (Semic, 1977 series) #1/1979 (uke 3 1979) - in Batman: The Strange Deaths of Batman (DC, 2009 series) ([March] 2009)
- in The Joker: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2019 series) ([October] 2019)
- in Batman Mythology (Urban Comics, 2021 series) #6 - Les morts de Batman (février 2022)
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Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Story continues in Batman #292. Batman is not revealed to be acting as Two-Face until the fourth part of the story. It is unclear whether Tweedle Dee or Tweedle Dum is the character shown in the gallery.
[no title indexed]
Letters to the Batman / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis (replies)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- S-2673
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Adam Castro, Scott Gibson, Mike Santulli and Shell Burbank.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["And to think--I killed him!"]
Batman -
1.
Where Were You on the Night Batman Was Killed? The Testimony of the Catwoman!
Batman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Letters to the Batman -
3.
Swamp Thing from the Beginning
DC Publishorial
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- R. S. Martin
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Matthew Peets
- Alan Smith
- Jim Van Dore
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