Detective Comics #550 [Direct]
(May 1985)

DC, 1937 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.35 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1985-02-05
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

On-sale date from DC Releases #12.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Pat Broderick (signed)
Inks
Pat Broderick (signed)
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman; Joey Redwine
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

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The Spider's Ninth Leg! (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 16 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Moench
Pencils
Pat Broderick
Inks
Bob Smith
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
John Workman
Job Number
G-1815
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman; Joey Redwine
Synopsis
The nine critical steps in Joey Redwine's life are replayed as Batman chases the criminal across the Gotham rooftops.
Reprints

Night Olympics, Part Two (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
Alan Moore
Pencils
Klaus Janson
Inks
Klaus Janson
Colors
Klaus Janson
Letters
Todd Klein
Job Number
G-1298
Genre
superhero
Characters
Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Black Canary [Dinah Lance]; Pete Lomax
Synopsis
Green Arrow goes after the archer that shot Black Canary.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Detective Comments / letters page / 1.75 pages (report information)

Script
Robert Greenberger
Pencils
José Luis García-López
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-1932

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Charles D. Brown, Bill Wu, Andreas Soto, Jeff Mitchell, Josh Scrimahaw, Jason Marsdan, and Dennis Petilli.

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

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Average # copies per issue, previous year - 77,275.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

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

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Batman
  2. 1. The Spider's Ninth Leg!
    Batman
  3. 2. Night Olympics, Part Two
    Green Arrow
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Detective Comments
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
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  • Marc Turnage
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Gregg Whitmore
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