The Brave and the Bold
#178
[Direct]
(September 1981)
DC,
1955 Series
- Volume
- 27
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1981-05-26
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Dick Giordano (editor); Dave Manak (associate editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Paperchase
Batman; The Creeper / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-675
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; The Creeper
- Reprints
-
in Batman (Editorial Novaro, 1954 series) #1167 -
in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #15 (1982) -
in Federal Comics Starring Batman and... (Federal, 1983 series) #3 (June 1983) -
in Tales of the Batman: Alan Brennert (DC, 2016 series) ([September] 2016) - 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.
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Paperchase
Batman; The Creeper / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- J-7446
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; Creeper; Hugo Marlies; Dr. Clayton Wetley; Vera Sweet
- Reprints
- in Batman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1978 series) #15 (1982)
- in The Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told (DC, 1989 series) (1989 [January 1990])
- in The Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told (DC, 1990 series) ([June] 1990)
- in Tales of the Batman: Alan Brennert (DC, 2016 series) ([September] 2016)
- 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
A Legion of Super-Heroes cruiser appears on page 13, panel 4.
The Robot Master
Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ha, ha! With these four robot duplicates of myself, no one will find the real me!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Woman; Robot Master
- Synopsis
- The Robot Master commands four robot duplicates of himself to commit crimes, but Wonder Woman knows that since only the human will be unable to resist Twinkies, she can catch him.
Indexer Notes
Advertisement for Hostess Twinkies in comic strip format.
The Bitter Choice!
Nemesis / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- J-7503
- Genre
- adventure; superhero
- Characters
- Nemesis; Samuel Solomon; The Council; Valerie Foxworth; Jay Kingston
- Reprints
- in Nemesis (K. G. Murray, 1982 series) #[nn] ([1982])
-
[no title indexed]
The Brave and the Bold Mailbag / letters page / 0.5 page
- Script
- Dick Giordano
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-838
Indexer Notes
Letter from T. M. Maple.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Paperchase
Batman; The Creeper -
1.
Paperchase
Batman; The Creeper -
2.
The Robot Master
Hostess Twinkies; Wonder Woman -
3.
The Bitter Choice!
Nemesis -
4.
[no title indexed]
The Brave and the Bold Mailbag
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- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
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