Detective Comics
#501
[Direct]
(April 1981)
DC,
1937 Series
- Volume
- 45
- 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:
[no title indexed]
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- C-557
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; Alfred Pennyworth; Lucius Fox
- Reprints
-
in Batman Sonderheft (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #23 (1981) -
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 Allies: Alfred Pennyworth (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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The Man Who Killed Mlle. Marie!
Batman / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- J-6990
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; Alfred Pennyworth; Lucius Fox; Inspector Dupre; Julia Remarque; Mlle. Marie (flashback)
- Synopsis
- Alfred and Lucius leave Gotham mysteriously, and Batman follows them to Paris where they all become involved in the mystery behind the death of French resistance fighter Mlle. Marie.
- Reprints
- in Batman Sonderheft (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #23 (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 Eks almanah (Dečje novine, 1975 series) #420 (4. decembar 1984) - in Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway (DC, 2017 series) #1 ([September] 2017)
- in Batman Allies: Alfred Pennyworth (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #502.
Old Gold
Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Woman; Borrower
The Five-Fold Revenge of Dr. Voodoo
Batgirl / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-7184
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Commissioner James Gordon; Jeff Cotton; Doreen Gray
- Synopsis
- Dr. Voodoo is back for revenge on Batgirl.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #17/1981 (19. August 1981)
- in Batman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #44 (3e trimestre 1982)
- in Eks almanah (Dečje novine, 1975 series) #444 (9. april 1985.)
- in Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2018 series) #2 ([May] 2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #502.
[no title indexed]
Batcave / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Paul Levitz (credited as PL)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-734
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Dave Lauder, Jeff DeMos, and Al Schroeder III.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Batman -
1.
The Man Who Killed Mlle. Marie!
Batman -
2.
Old Gold
Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman -
3.
The Five-Fold Revenge of Dr. Voodoo
Batgirl -
4.
[no title indexed]
Batcave
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Chris Boyko
- Peter Croome
- Andre Heikamp
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mark Q
- Derek Reinhard
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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