Batman
#405
[Direct]
(March 1987)
DC,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1986-11-18
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Denny O'Neil (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from DC Releases #34.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Year One Part 2
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
- Reprints
-
in Batman (Juniorpress, 1984 series) #13 (1987), #13 (1987) -
in Batman (Editora Abril, 1987 series) #2 (outubro de 1987) -
in Batman (Zinco, 1987 series) #2 (Octubre 1987) -
in Lynvingen (Semic, 1977 series) #1/1987 ([oktober] 1987) -
in Batman (Grupo Editorial Vid, 1987 series) #10 (Enero 25 de 1988) -
in Batman: Year One (DC, 1988 series) ([October] 1988) -
in Batman: År ett (Semic Press AB; Carlsen/if, 1989 series) (1989) - in The Comic Book in America: An Illustrated History (Taylor Publishing Company, 1989 series) (1989)
- in Batman: Year One Deluxe Edition (DC, 2005 series) ([June] 2005)
-
in Klassiker der Comic-Literatur (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2005 series) #7 - Batman (2005) - in Batman: Year One (DC, 2007 series) ([April] 2007)
- in Batman Anthologie (Panini Deutschland, 2014 series) (2014)
- in Batman: Year One - The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2017 series) ([November] 2017)
-
in Le meilleur de Batman (Urban Comics, 2022 series) #2 - Année un (juin 2022)
-
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Batman Year One Chapter Two: War Is Declared
Batman / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Frank Miller
- Pencils
- David Mazzucchelli
- Inks
- David Mazzucchelli
- Colors
- Richmond Lewis
- Letters
- Todd Klein
- Job Number
- G-2899
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- He has trained and planned and waited eighteen years.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Lieutenant James Gordon; Detective Sarah Essen (1st appearance); Commissioner Gill Loeb; Barbara Gordon (James' pregnant wife); Detective Flass; Harvey Dent (assistant district attorney)
- Synopsis
- Bruce dons his new guise as Batman and begins to clean up Gotham. When he starts to harass the corrupt officials of the city, the police are commanded to take him down.
- Reprints
- in Batman (Juniorpress, 1984 series) #13 (1987)
- in Batman (Zinco, 1987 series) #1 (Septiembre 1987) [Págs. 1-6]
- in Läderlappen (Semic, 1987 series) #5/1987 ([september] 1987)
- in Batman (Editora Abril, 1987 series) #2 (outubro de 1987) [original title: Chapter 2: War Is Declared (Batman: Year One)]
- in Batman (Zinco, 1987 series) #2 (Octubre 1987)
- in Lynvingen (Semic, 1977 series) #1/1987 ([oktober] 1987)
- in Batman: Year One (Warner Books, 1988 series) (1988)
- in Batman (Grupo Editorial Vid, 1987 series) #10 (Enero 25 de 1988)
- in Batman: Year One (DC, 1988 series) ([June] 1988)
- in Batman: Year One (DC, 1988 series) ([October] 1988) which is reprinted
- in Batman (Carlsen Comics [DE], 1989 series) #[2] - Das erste Jahr (November 1989)
- in Batman: År ett (Semic Press AB; Carlsen/if, 1989 series) (1989)
- in The Complete Frank Miller Batman (Longmeadow Press, 1989 series) #1 (1989)
- in Batman - Vengeance Oblige (France Loisirs, 1989 series) (septembre 1989)
- in Batman - Année 1 (Delcourt, 2000 series) (avril 2000)
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in Batman: Rok pierwszy (Egmont Polska, 2003 series) ([grudzień] 2003) - in Batman: Year One Deluxe Edition (DC, 2005 series) ([June] 2005)
- in Klassiker der Comic-Literatur (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2005 series) #7 - Batman (2005)
- in Batman: Year One (DC, 2007 series) ([April] 2007)
- in Batman: År 1 (Hjemmet / Egmont, 2007 series) (2007) [2. translation]
- in Batman : Year One (Panini France, 2010 series) (août 2010)
- in Batman - Année Un (DVD et Blue-Ray inclus) (Urban Comics, 2012 series) (juillet 2012)
- in Batman - Année Un (Urban Comics, 2012 series) (juillet 2012)
- in Batman y Superman: Colección Novelas Gráficas (ECC Ediciones, 2017 series) #13 - Batman: Año Uno (Julio de 2017)
- in Batman: Year One - The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2017 series) ([November] 2017)
- in Batman - Année Un (Urban Comics, 2020 series) (février 2020)
- in Le meilleur de Batman (Urban Comics, 2022 series) #2 - Année un (juin 2022)
-
Indexer Notes
Sarah Essen eventually becomes Commissioner Gordon's second wife. Story continues in Batman #406. Revamped origin of Batman.
[no title indexed]
Bat-Signals / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Barbara Kesel (replies); Denny O'Neil
- Pencils
- José Luis García-López
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-2600
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Brad Keefauver, John LeMaitre, Chris Romano, Elvis Orten, Janet L. Hetherington and Page Davis. Also includes 1/3-page "From the Den."
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Year One Part 2
Batman -
1.
["Chocolate fun for everyone!"]
-
2.
Batman Year One Chapter Two: War Is Declared
Batman -
3.
[no title indexed]
Bat-Signals -
4.
["Great Christmas fun for everyone!"]
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5.
["Big and crunchy."]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Peter Croome
- Del Gruber
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Mike Nielsen
- Matthew Peets
- Derek Reinhard
- Jim Van Dore
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