- Pencils
- Jim Aparo (signed)
- Inks
- Jim Aparo (signed)
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin; Adrienne Roy ? (see notes)
- Letters
- typeset
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]
Contents page with illustration on inside front cover. Colorist added per comments by Anthony Tollin on Facebook on June 26, 2019: "I'm pretty certain that I colored this page. If not, [my] late wife Adrienne Roy colored it, but I'm pretty certain it was colored by yours truly (who also co-colored the cover with my late boss and mentor, Jack Adler)."
- Script
- Alan Brennert
- Pencils
- Dick Giordano
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- J-6870
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne] (of Earth-One, featured); Batman [Bruce Wayne] (of Earth-Two, flashback); Joe Chill (dream); The Phantom Stranger; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Martha Wayne (dream); Thomas Wayne (dream); Joe Chill (alternate Earth, death); Lieutenant James Gordon (alternate Earth); Barbara Kean (alternate Earth); Lew Moxon (alternate Earth); Bruce Wayne (alternate Earth); Martha Wayne (alternate Earth); Thomas Wayne (alternate Earth)
- Reprints
-
in Batman Sonderausgabe (Egmont Ehapa, 1981 series) #1 (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 The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #23 (April 1982) -
in Gigant (Semic, 1977 series) #4/1983 (uke 24 1983) -
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 in the Eighties (DC, 2004 series) ([November] 2004) -
in Tales of the Batman: Alan Brennert (DC, 2016 series) ([September] 2016) -
in Detective Comics: Batman 80th Anniversary Giant (DC, 2019 series) #1 (2019) -
in Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman (DC, 2019 series) ([May] 2019)
- Keywords
- alternate Earths; Crime Alley; Earth-One
This story takes place on June 21st, mostly on an alternate Earth where young Bruce Wayne's parents are about to be murdered by Joe Chill. The Earth-One Batman's parents were murdered on June 26, exactly 20 years earlier, when Bruce was 8 years old. As Batman explains, the difference in dates is due to the five leap days that occurred during those two decades.
Fans have assigned this alternate Earth the designation "Earth-Five", however that name is not official.
- Script
- Len Wein
- Pencils
- Jim Aparo
- Inks
- Jim Aparo
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Jim Aparo
- Job Number
- J-7087
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Jason Bard; Slam Bradley (featured); Captain Mark Compass; The Human Target [Christopher Chance]; Mysto [Rick Carter]; Roy Raymond; Pow-Wow Smith; Victor Dominion (villain, death); Archie Evergreen (death);
- Reprints
With lots of cameos and guest-stars in this anniversary issue.
- Script
- Len Wein; Charles Schulz (credited as Snoopy)
- Pencils
- Walter Simonson
- Inks
- Walter Simonson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-7176
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
- Reprints
Text is from a number of Peanuts strips published in 1970.
- Script
- Walter Gibson
- Pencils
- Tom Yeates
- Inks
- Tom Yeates
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- J-7170
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne] (featured); Commissioner James Gordon; Gray Face (villain)
Text story with small illustrations.
- Script
- Paul Levitz
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert
- Inks
- Joe Kubert
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Adam Kubert
- Editing
- Len Wein (guest editor)
- Job Number
- J-7060
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Hawkgirl [Shayera Thal / Shiera Hall] (featured); Hawkman [Katar Hol / Carter Hall] (featured); Martian Manhunter [J'Onn J'Onzz] (cameo, origin recap); Professor Mark Erdel (in flashback); Fred Schneider (cameo, also in flashback); Anna Erdel (in flashback, Prof. Erdel's niece)
- Synopsis
- The Hawks solve The Strange Death of Dr. Erdel.
- Reprints
Title taken from contents page. Also listed in last panel of story.