Batman #386 [Direct]
(August 1985)

DC, 1940 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.35 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1985-04-16
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)
Color
Color
Dimensions
Standard Golden Age, then Silver Age, then Standard Modern Age U.S.
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format
Was Ongoing Series

Issue Notes

This issue has variants.

On-sale date from DC Releases #15.

Black Mask! (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Tom Mandrake (signed)
Inks
Tom Mandrake (signed)
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman; Black Mask
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

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Black Mask: Losing Face (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Moench
Pencils
Tom Mandrake
Inks
Tom Mandrake
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
John Costanza
Job Number
G-1959
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman; Commissioner Gordon; Harvey Bullock; Black Mask (1st and origin, villain); Lucius Fox
Synopsis
Roman Sionis loses his family's company, Janus Cosmetics, and turns to a life of crime as Black Mask.
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Indexer Notes

Story continues in Detective Comics #553.

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

Bat-Signals / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Bob Greenberger
Pencils
José Luis García-López
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-2023

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Dale Coe, Rick Oberle, Joe Rusnek, Ronald Bialkowki, T.M. Maple, Susan M. Murrie, Clark A. Novak, John A. Leach, John Fleig and Greg W. Myers.

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

Meanwhile... / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. Black Mask!
    Batman
  2. 1. Black Mask: Losing Face
    Batman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Bat-Signals
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
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