(April 1980)
DC,
1955 Series
- Volume
- 26
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1980-01-22
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893044004
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Paul Levitz (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #176.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Adam Strange; Batman / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero; science fiction
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Adam Strange (image on wanted poster); Alanna; Sardath
- Reprints
-
in Federal Comics Starring Batman and... (Federal, 1983 series) #4 -
in Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway (DC, 2017 series) #1 ([September] 2017) - in Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo (DC, 2012 series) #3 ([November] 2017)
- in Batman: The Brave and the Bold - The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #3 ([November] 2021)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
![Cover Thumbnail for The Brave and the Bold (1955 series) #161 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1658/w100/1658606.jpg?2311868827119074680)
A Tale of Two Heroes
Adam Strange; Batman / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- J-6394
- Genre
- superhero; science fiction
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Adam Strange; Alanna; James Gordon; Captain Malace; Mike (tattoo shop owner)
- Synopsis
- Batman is transported to Rann where Adam Strange has been framed for murder and Batman must prove his innocence, while on Earth, Adam helps Commissioner Gordon track a killer.
- Reprints
-
in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #9 (1980) - in Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway (DC, 2017 series) #1 ([September] 2017)
- in Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo (DC, 2012 series) #3 ([November] 2017)
- in Batman: The Brave and the Bold - The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2017 series) #3 ([November] 2021)
-
- Keywords
- Rann; Zeta-Plus Beam
Indexer Notes
Batman and Adam Strange do not actually meet in this story as they exchange places with each other between Earth and Rann.
The Borrower
Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Woman
- Synopsis
- A man "borrows" things he wants until Wonder Woman stops him with Hostess Twinkies.
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for Hostess Twinkies in comic strip format.
[no title indexed]
The Brave and the Bold Mailbag / letters page / 0.67 page
- Job Number
- L-469
Indexer Notes
Letters from Kent A. Phenis and Alice Wu.
[no title indexed]
DC Puzzle / activity / 0.67 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Crossword puzzle.
It's the Answer Man
text article / 0.33 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- F-127
Indexer Notes
Questions from Rusty Allen, Mark McGrath, Chris Geraci, John White, David Bryant, David Baca, David Martinez, William Belew, Matt Levan, Robert Sasser, Thomas B. Jones, Janelle Oltorik, Art Young and James Janis.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Adam Strange; Batman -
1.
A Tale of Two Heroes
Adam Strange; Batman -
2.
The Borrower
Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman -
3.
[no title indexed]
The Brave and the Bold Mailbag -
4.
[no title indexed]
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5.
[no title indexed]
DC Puzzle -
6.
It's the Answer Man
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- John Monagle
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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