Batman #312
(June 1979)

DC, 1940 Series
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Volume
40
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1979-03-06
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893043006
Editing
Joe Orlando (managing editor); Paul Levitz (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #166.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Walter Simonson (signed)
Inks
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors
Tatjana Wood
Letters
?
Job Number
C-954
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Gotham City's strangest crime wave begins... ...when the Calendar Man strikes!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Calendar Man
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

Cover Thumbnail for Batman (DC, 1940 series) #312 Cover Thumbnail for Batman (1940 series) #312 [Whitman] Cover Thumbnail for Batman (1940 series) #312 [British]
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Cover gallery

A Caper a Day Keeps the Batman at Bay! (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Len Wein
Pencils
Walter Simonson
Inks
Dick Giordano
Colors
Glynis Oliver
Letters
Ben Oda
Job Number
J-5943
Genre
superhero
Characters
Calendar Man (villain); Two-Face (cameo); Batman [Bruce Wayne]; James Gordon; Dr. Douglas Dundee; Lucius Fox
Reprints

Superman Meets the Orbitrons! (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Hostess Twinkies; Superman / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Bat-Signals / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Paul Levitz
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-264

Volume 79 Issue 9 - Week of March 5, 1979 (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Daily Planet / in-house column / 0.6 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.2 page (report information)

[Batman & Red Tornado] (Table of Contents: 6)

Hembeck / comic story / 0.2 page (report information)

Script
Fred Hembeck
Pencils
Fred Hembeck
Inks
Fred Hembeck
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
satire-parody; humor; superhero

Indexer Notes

Part of the Daily Planet page.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Gotham City's strangest crime wave begins... ...when the Calendar Man strikes!"]
    Batman
  2. 1. A Caper a Day Keeps the Batman at Bay!
    Batman
  3. 2. Superman Meets the Orbitrons!
    Hostess Twinkies; Superman
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Bat-Signals
  5. 4. Volume 79 Issue 9 - Week of March 5, 1979
    Daily Planet
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    The Answer Man
  7. 6. [Batman & Red Tornado]
    Hembeck
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Peter Croome
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Matthew Peets
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Alan Smith
  • Jim Van Dore
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