Detective Comics
#496
[Direct]
(November 1980)
DC,
1937 Series
- Volume
- 44
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Paul Levitz (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
Murder on the Mystery Ship!
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jim Aparo (signed)
- Inks
- Jim Aparo (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-433
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Clayface [Basil Karlo]; Batgirl [Barbara Gordon] (head shot)
- Reprints
-
in Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo (DC, 2012 series) #3 ([November] 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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Murder on the Mystery Ship!
Batman / comic story / 15.67 pages
- Job Number
- J-6780
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Clayface [Basil Karlo] (apparent death); Commissioner James Gordon; John Carlinger; Myrna Gentry; Nurse Jacobs (death); Rita Morgansen; Bill Motherwell; Stacy Darnell
- Synopsis
- When a horror film exposition takes place on a cruise ship in Gotham Harbor, Basil Karlo takes offense at not being invited, so he breaks out of Arkham and boards the ship to get revenge.
- Reprints
-
in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #11 (1981) -
in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #47 (juillet 1983) - in Tales of the Batman: Don Newton (DC, 2011 series) (2011 [February 2012])
-
- Keywords
- Arkham Asylum
[no title indexed]
Batcave / letters page / 0.33 page
- Script
- Paul Levitz
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dept. of Oops
Indexer Notes
Information on the drop in size of the magazine and a letter of comment from Jeffrey Lowndes.
Stealer of Souls!
Batgirl / comic story / 10 pages
- Job Number
- J-6902
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Dr. Voodoo; Jim Dover; Tracy Dover; Assistant District Attorney Charles Turner; Detective Cameron; Jeff Cotton
- Synopsis
- Batgirl battles Dr. Voodoo, who uses his mystical powers to steal diamonds. Meanwhile, the assistant district attorney prepares to arrest Barbara Gordon - for murder!
- Reprints
- in Batman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #3 (1981)
- in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #38 (juillet 1981)
-
in Batman (Federal, 1983 series) #8 ([1983]) -
in Super-Heróis (Agência Portuguesa de Revistas, 1982 series) #8 (1 de Junho de 1983) - in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([May] 2019)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Murder on the Mystery Ship!
Batman -
1.
Murder on the Mystery Ship!
Batman -
2.
Hawkman Makes a Safe Landing
Hawkman; Hostess Cup Cakes -
3.
["Dept. of Oops"]
Batcave -
4.
Stealer of Souls!
Batgirl
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Nuno Miranda
- John Monagle
- Mike Nielsen
- Derek Reinhard
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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