Batman
#426
[Direct]
(December 1988)
DC,
1940 Series
- Price
- 1.50 USD; 2.00 CAD; 0.60 GBP
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1988-08-25
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Denny O'Neil (editor); Dan Raspler (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
A Death in the Family, Book One of Four
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Inks
- Mike Mignola (signed)
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
- Reprints
-
in Batman Special (Juniorpress, 1989 series) #1 (1989) -
in Batman [Batman Una muerte en la Familia] (Zinco, 1989 series) #1 (Noviembre 1989) -
in A Morte de Robin (Editora Abril, 2002 series) #2 (Maio 2002) -
in DC Comics Classics Library: Batman - A Death in the Family (DC, 2009 series) ([November] 2009) -
in Batman - Ein Tod in der Familie (Panini Deutschland, 2010 series) ([August] 2010) - in Batman: A Death in the Family (DC, 2011 series) (2011 [January 2012])
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in Batman - Un deuil dans la famille (Urban Comics, 2013 series) (avril 2013) - in DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection (Eaglemoss Publications, 2015 series) #14 - Batman - Ein Tod in der Familie
- in DC Comics Coleção de Graphic Novels (Eaglemoss Collections, 2014 series) #11 - Batman: Morte em Família (Fevereiro de 2016)
- in The DC Universe by Mike Mignola (DC, 2017 series) ([July] 2017)
- in The DC Universe by Mike Mignola (DC, 2018 series) ([September] 2018)
- in Batman: A Death in the Family The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2021 series) ([June] 2021)
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Indexer Notes
New logo designed by Kez Wilson. Color credits confirmed by Anthony Tollin.
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A Death in the Family, Chapter 1 & 2
Batman / comic story / 44 pages
- Job Number
- G-3615
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Jason Todd]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Joker (villain); Two-Face [Harvey Dent] (flashback); Sharmin Rosen; Shiva Woosan (cameo image on computer monitor); Dr. Sheila Haywood (cameo image on computer monitor)
- Synopsis
- Jason discovers that his "real" mother was really his step-mother, and his birth mother is still alive. Joker escapes from Arkham and Batman chases him to the Middle East where he runs across Jason looking for one of the women he thinks is his mom.
- Reprints
- in Batman Special (Juniorpress, 1989 series) #1 (1989)
- in Batman: A Death in the Family (DC, 1988 series) (1988 [January 1989])
-
in Batman: A Death in the Family (Titan, 1989 series) [Purple Lettering] (July 1989) - in Batman [Batman Una muerte en la Familia] (Zinco, 1989 series) #1 (Noviembre 1989)
- in DC Especial (Editora Abril, 1989 series) #1 (Novembro 1989) [páginas 1-2 e 4-44 da história original;
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in Batman (SatellitFörlaget, 1989 series) #3/1989 (december 1989), #3/1989 (december 1989) - in Batman Sonderband (Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1989 series) #10 - Tod in der Familie - Teil Eins (1990)
- in A Morte de Robin (Editora Abril, 2002 series) #1 (Abril 2002) [chapter 1], #1 (Abril 2002) [chapter 2]
- in Batman - Un deuil dans la famille (Semic S.A., 2003 series) (décembre 2003)
- in Coleccionable Batman (Planeta DeAgostini, 2005 series) #4 (Julio 2005), #5 (Julio 2005)
- in DC Comics Classics Library: Batman - A Death in the Family (DC, 2009 series) ([November] 2009)
- in Batman - Ein Tod in der Familie (Panini Deutschland, 2010 series) ([August] 2010)
- in Batman: A Death in the Family (DC, 2011 series) (2011 [January 2012])
- in Batman - Un deuil dans la famille (Urban Comics, 2013 series) (avril 2013)
- in DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection (Eaglemoss Publications, 2015 series) #14 - Batman - Ein Tod in der Familie
- in DC Comics Coleção de Graphic Novels (Eaglemoss Collections, 2014 series) #11 - Batman: Morte em Família (Fevereiro de 2016)
- in Batman: A Death in the Family The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2021 series) ([June] 2021)
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Indexer Notes
Infamous story where readers called an 800-number and voted to have Robin killed! Story continues in Batman #427.
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