Detective Comics #538 [Direct]
(May 1984)

DC, 1937 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.30 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1984-01-31
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Len Wein (editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

Curse of the Catman! (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Gene Colan (signed)
Inks
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
?
Job Number
C-726
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Catman [Thomas Blake]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

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Clothes Make the Cat(man) (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Moench
Pencils
Gene Colan
Inks
Bob Smith
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
Ben Oda
Job Number
G-1095
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Jason Todd]; Alfred Pennyworth; Julia Remarque; Commissioner James Gordon; Vicki Vale; Catman [Thomas Blake]; Shiv Collins
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story continues from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #371.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Three Years Ago Today (Table of Contents: 3)

Green Arrow / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script
Joey Cavalieri
Pencils
Shawn McManus
Inks
Pablo Marcos
Colors
Jeanine Casey
Letters
Albert DeGuzman
Genre
superhero
Characters
Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Detective Comments / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
José Luis García-López (header); Ed Hannigan (cover preview)
Inks
Dick Giordano (cover preview); ? (header)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman

Indexer Notes

No letters; a peek at the cover art for Batman (DC, 1940 series) #372 without title, text or trade dress.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Curse of the Catman!
    Batman
  2. 1. Clothes Make the Cat(man)
    Batman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
  4. 3. Three Years Ago Today
    Green Arrow
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Detective Comments
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