([October] 2005)
DC,
2005 Series
Published in English
(United States)
- Price
- 0.00 FREE (see Notes)
- Pages
- 76
- On-sale Date
- 2005-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics
- Brand
-
DC [swirl]
- Editing
- Ron Perazza (collected edition editor)
- Color
- Color
- Dimensions
- 4 1/2" x 7 1/4"
- Paper Stock
- Stiff cover
- Publishing Format
- one-shot
Issue Notes
Also credited are Maria Cabardo (art director, collected edition) and Mike Zagari (designer, collected edition).
Packaged with the Two-Disc Deluxe Edition of the Batman Begins movie.
Packaged with the Two-Disc Deluxe Edition of the Batman Begins movie.
Stories That Inspired the Movie
credits, title page / 1 page
- Characters
- Batman
Indexer Notes
Table of Contents. Background is from a second "Batman Begins" movie poster.
The Man Who Falls
Batman / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Denny O'Neil
- Pencils
- Dick Giordano
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- Tom McCraw
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Editing
- Mark Waid
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman (origin retold); Thomas Wayne; Martha Wayne; Master Kirigi; Ducard; Willie Doggett (cameo); Tom Woodley (cameo); Alfred Pennyworth (cameo)
- Reprints
- from Secret Origins of the World's Greatest Super-Heroes (DC, 1990 series) ([March] 1990)
-
[Detective Comics #27 cover]
Batman / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman
- Reprints
- from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27 (May 1939)
-
Indexer Notes
Cropped on right edge and bottom edge, losing Bob Kane's signature.
The Case of the Chemical Syndicate
Batman / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Bob Kane
- Inks
- Bob Kane
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bob Kane
- Editing
- Vin Sullivan (original editor)
- Job Number
- S-146
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Bat-Man (first appearance); Commissioner James Gordon (first appearance); Lambert; Steven Crane; Paul Rogers; Alfred Stryker (villain); Jennings (villain)
Indexer Notes
This is the edited version (Lambert's knife and other violence edited out) that was first printed in Detective Comics (1937 series) #387 (May 1969); hence the job code still on it.
[Batman: The Long Halloween trade paperback cover]
Batman / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; Two-Face; Captain James Gordon; Joker; Catwoman; Poison Ivy
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Long Halloween (DC, 1999 series) [First Printing] (1998 [December 1999]) [minus all text, and recolored to shade all colors blue except the calendar pages]
-
Crime
Batman / comic story / 48 pages
- Script
- Jeph Loeb
- Pencils
- Tim Sale
- Inks
- Tim Sale
- Colors
- Gregory Wright
- Letters
- Richard Starkings; Comicraft
- Editing
- Archie Goodwin
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; Catwoman; Carmine "The Roman" Falcone; Johnny Viti (dies); Richard Daniel (dies); Carla Viti; Alberto Falcone; Harvey Dent; Captain James Gordon; Salvatore "The Boss" Maroni; Milos; Barbara Gordon; Gilda Dent
- Reprints
- from Batman: The Long Halloween (DC, 1996 series) #1 (December 1996)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues in Batman: The Long Halloween (1996 series) #2.
Continue the Quest
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
House ad for dccomics.com, illustrated with a picture of Batman by Jim Lee.
Editing
Related Scans
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Batman -
1.
Stories That Inspired the Movie
-
2.
The Man Who Falls
Batman -
3.
[Detective Comics #27 cover]
Batman -
4.
The Case of the Chemical Syndicate
Batman -
5.
[Batman: The Long Halloween trade paperback cover]
Batman -
6.
Crime
Batman -
7.
Continue the Quest
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8.
[Ad]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Peter Croome
- Mark Gordon
- Mike Nielsen
- Martin Olsen
- Allen Ross
- Per Sandell
- Ramon Schenk
- Lee Stephan
- Jim Van Dore
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