(March 1986)
DC,
1985 Series
- Price
- 1.75 USD; 2.50 CAD
- Pages
- 44
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1985-11-19
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
On-sale date from DC Releases #22.
It Was a Dark (But Not Stormy) Knight...
text article / 1 page
- Script
- Steve Englehart
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-2253
Indexer Notes
Englehart's views on his Batman treatment.
Sequence on inside front cover page.
The Laughing Fish!
Batman / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Steve Englehart
- Pencils
- Marshall Rogers
- Inks
- Terry Austin
- Colors
- Marshall Rogers
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Silver St. Cloud; Joker; G. Carl Francis; Rupert Thorne; Commissioner Jim Gordon
- Synopsis
- The Joker gives fish everywhere his face, then tries to claim copyright to his image. And he will kill anyone who gets in the way of his plan.
- Reprints
-
from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #475 (February 1978) [recolored] - in Tales of the Batman: Steve Englehart (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Sign of the Joker!
Batman / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Steve Englehart
- Pencils
- Marshall Rogers
- Inks
- Terry Austin
- Colors
- Marshall Rogers
- Letters
- Milt Snapinn
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Commissioner Jim Gordon; Thomas Jackson; Joker; Hugo Strange (as ghost); Rupert Thorne; Silver St. Cloud
- Synopsis
- Hugo Strange takes his revenge on Rupert Thorne, Silver St. Cloud makes a decision about her future, and Batman puts an end to the Joker's latest scheme.
- Reprints
- from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #476 (March-April 1978) [recolored]
- in Tales of the Batman: Steve Englehart (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Viewpoints
comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Charlie Boatner
- Pencils
- Marshall Rogers
- Inks
- Marshall Rogers
- Colors
- Marshall Rogers
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Editing
- Len Wein
- Genre
- science fiction
- Reprints
- from Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #111 (September 1980)
-
[Detective Comics #476]
Cover Gallery / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman
- Reprints
- from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #476 (March-April 1978)
-
Indexer Notes
Sequence on inside back cover page.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Classic Tales
Batman -
1.
It Was a Dark (But Not Stormy) Knight...
-
2.
The Laughing Fish!
Batman -
3.
Sign of the Joker!
Batman -
4.
Viewpoints
-
5.
[Detective Comics #476]
Cover Gallery
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Jim Van Dore
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