Detective Comics
#498
[Direct]
(January 1981)
DC,
1937 Series
- Volume
- 45
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 40
- 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
The entire issue without cover is reprinted in Elson's Presents Super Heroes Comics (DC, 1981 series) #6
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Blockbuster's Back in Town!
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jim Aparo (signed)
- Inks
- Jim Aparo (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Blockbuster [Mark Desmond]; Batgirl [Barbara Gordon] (head shot)
- Reprints
-
in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #12 (1981) -
in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #42 (février 1982) [Modifiée/Edited] -
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)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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Night of the Savage
Batman / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- J-6893
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blockbuster [Mark Desmond] (villain); Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Sharon (Commissioner Gordon's secretary); Hawkins; Lou; Ernie; Willie Macon; Mickey (thug); Willie Macon's wife; Ajax (villain); Roger Harp (news anchor, image on TV); 'Boss' Dooley; Dooley's men
- Synopsis
- Blockbuster, after being presumed drowned in Gotham Harbor, washes ashore near a small West Virginia town, where he befriended by a local miner. When Batman travels to there to investigates a Blockbuster sighting, the local union boss assumes Batman is there to investigate his criminal activities and takes steps to eliminate him.
- Reprints
- in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #12 (1981)
- in Elson's Presents Super Heroes Comics (DC, 1981 series) #6 (1981)
- in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #42 (février 1982)
- in Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway (DC, 2017 series) #1 ([September] 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
The first few pages of the story take place shortly after Batman's last encounter with Blockbuster in Batman #309. In the present, Batman is shown to be recovering from the gunshot would he received in Detective Comics #497.
Story continues in Detective Comics #499.
The Tightening Web!
Batgirl / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-6993
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Commissioner James Gordon; Robert "Bob" Barton; Richard Bender; Jeff Cotton; Jim Dover; Assistant District Attorney Charles Turner; Randall F. Borowitz; Doreen Gray
- Synopsis
- With Barbara charged with murder, and new evidence continuing to pile up against her, Batgirl must investigate to find out who is framing her.
- Reprints
- in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #14 (1981)
- in Elson's Presents Super Heroes Comics (DC, 1981 series) #6 (1981)
- in Batman collection Le Justicier (Sage - Sagédition, 1982 series) #1 - Rendez-vous à Paris ! (avril 1982) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]]
- in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([May] 2019)
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[no title indexed]
Batcave / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Paul Levitz
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-663
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Brian Nelson, Steve Gawronski, and Rick Kennedy.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Blockbuster's Back in Town!
Batman -
1.
Night of the Savage
Batman -
2.
The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat
The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies -
3.
The Tightening Web!
Batgirl -
4.
[no title indexed]
Batcave
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- John Monagle
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
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