Batman #398 [Direct]
(August 1986)

DC, 1940 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1986-04-15
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics, Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Len Wein
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 #27. Dennis O'Neil credited as issue editor on letters page apparently in error.

This printing says "Abby's in Gotham City in Swamp Thing #51" in UPC box.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Tom Mandrake (signed)
Inks
Tom Mandrake (signed)
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
?
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Help me, Catwoman! Before Two-Face buries me alive!!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman; Catwoman; Two-Face
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

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About Faces! (Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 21 pages (report information)

Script
Doug Moench
Pencils
Tom Mandrake
Inks
Tom Mandrake
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
John Costanza
Editing
Len Wein
Job Number
G-2570
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman; Catwoman; Robin [Jason Todd]; Commissioner Gordon; Harvey Bullock; Two-Face (villain); Circe (villain)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story continues from Detective Comics #564.

[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-2361

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Jef Peckham, Jeff Melton, Joe Sarnicola, Elvis Orten, Greg Western, David Llyod Glenister, Lammers, Vincent R. Bellizia and Carl Cafarelli.

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Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Help me, Catwoman! Before Two-Face buries me alive!!"]
    Batman
  2. 1. About Faces!
    Batman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Bat-Signals
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