DC Special Series
#15 - Batman Spectacular
(Summer 1978)
DC,
1977 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 1.00 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- nine times a year
- On-sale Date
- 1978-07-27
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893210982
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor); Joe Orlando (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On sale date from the 1978 Library of Congress copyright records (cocatalog.loc.gov). Date given as July 27 in DC Coming Attractions #20 and in a house ad in Justice League of America #159. Date given as July 25 in Comic Reader #158.
[no title indexed]
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Marshall Rogers (signed)
- Inks
- Marshall Rogers (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- S-2962
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Batman! Find my killer, or I'll rise from my grave and hang you by the neck until you are dead!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
- Reprints
-
in Batman Album (K. G. Murray, 1976 series) #48 -
in Batman: La Saga de Ra's Al Ghul (Planeta DeAgostini, 2005 series) #1 (Junio 2005) -
in Legends of the Dark Knight: Marshall Rogers (DC, 2011 series) (2011 [January 2012])
-
Indexer Notes
Wrap-around cover.
Batman Spectacular Contents Page
Batman / table of contents / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-3005
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Page 3... A message from a dead man threatens he will "Hang the Batman" unless the Masked Manhunter finds his murderer!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Hang the Batman
Batman / comic story / 30 pages
- Job Number
- S-2868
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There it was, outside the window of police Commissioner Gordon-- a groisque mockery of the Batman...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Commissioner Gordon [James Gordon]; Alfred Pennyworth; Bucky Somoza; Drungo; Sweetback Goss; Fast Eddie; Swifty; Horace Hobson; Joshua Carlton
- Reprints
-
in Batman Pocketbook (Egmont/Methuen, 1978 series) #3 (1979) -
in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #3 (1979) -
in Läderlappen (Semic, 1976 series) #12/1981 (november 1981) -
in Supersolo (Interpresse, 1980 series) #9 - Batman mod Hulk (13. oktober 1982) -
in Batman Especial - As Várias Faces de Batman (Editora Abril, 1989 series) (outubro de 1989) [recolorida, traduzida]
-
- Keywords
- Bat-Signal; Batarang; Batcave; Batmobile; Batrope; GCPD Headquarters; Giant Penny; Gotham City; Gotham Gazette Building; Hercules Club; Mechanical T-Rex; Pier 44; Utility Belt; Wayne Foundation
I Now Pronounce You Batman and Wife!
Batman / comic story / 20 pages
- Job Number
- S-2954
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A pale, swirling shroud covers the city and the silence seems to breathe!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Talia; Ra's Al Ghul; Lurk; Professor Vasco Marke-Witch; Snazzy Trope; DJ Barry Dark
- Reprints
- in Batman Pocketbook (Egmont/Methuen, 1978 series) #3 (1979)
- in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #3 (1979)
-
in Superserien (Semic, 1982 series) #1/1983 (uke 2 1983) - in Batman: Tales of the Demon (Warner Books, 1992 series) (1991)
- in Batman: Tales of the Demon (DC, 1991 series) ([May] 1991)
- in Batman: La Saga de Ra's Al Ghul (Planeta DeAgostini, 2005 series) #1 (Junio 2005)
- in Batman Arkham: Ra's al Ghul (DC, 2019 series) (2019)
- in Legends of the Dark Knight: Michael Golden (DC, 2019 series) ([July] 2019)
- in Batman: Tales of the Demon (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
- Keywords
- Batcave; Gotham City
Death Strikes at Midnight and Three
Batman / text story / 15 pages
- Script
- Denny O'Neil
- Pencils
- Marshall Rogers (credited as W. M. Rogers)
- Inks
- Marshall Rogers (credited as W. M. Rogers)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- S-2916
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At eight o'clock the special prosecutor died.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Anthony Toombs; Milo Lewes; Gimp Malone; Boilerplate Thomas; Bernie Sorrel; Benjamin
- Reprints
- in Gigant (Semic, 1976 series) #5/1984 (1984)
- in Gigant (Semic, 1977 series) #5/1984 (uke 32 1984)
- 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 Batman Especial - As Várias Faces de Batman (Editora Abril, 1989 series) (outubro de 1989) [recolorida, traduzida]
- in Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told (DC, 2005 series) #1 ([June] 2005)
- in Batman - Die besten Storys aller Zeiten (Panini Deutschland, 2009 series) #1
- in Legends of the Dark Knight: Marshall Rogers (DC, 2011 series) (2011 [January 2012])
-
- Keywords
- Batcave; Gotham City; Utility Belt; Wayne Foundation
Indexer Notes
Prose story with illustrations.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Batman! Find my killer, or I'll rise from my grave and hang you by the neck until you are dead!"]
Batman -
1.
Batman Spectacular Contents Page
Batman -
2.
Hang the Batman
Batman -
3.
I Now Pronounce You Batman and Wife!
Batman -
4.
Death Strikes at Midnight and Three
Batman -
5.
Death Strikes at Midnight and Three!
Batman
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- Dwayne Best
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- John Censullo
- Peter Croome
- CTGarry
- Matthew Head
- Lou Mazzella
- John Monagle
- Mike Nielsen
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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