Batman
#442
[Direct]
([December] 1989)
DC,
1940 Series
- Price
- 1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.50 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1989-11-02
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Denny O'Neil; Dan Raspler (associate editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
A Lonely Place of Dying, Part 5 of 5
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- George Pérez (signed)
- Inks
- George Pérez (signed)
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Robin [Tim Drake]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth
- Reprints
-
in Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying (DC, 1990 series) ([October] 1990) -
in Batman (Grupo Editorial Vid, 1987 series) #116 (Enero 13 de 1992) - in DC Comics Classics Library: Batman - A Death in the Family (DC, 2009 series) ([November] 2009)
- 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 Robin, The Boy Wonder: A Celebration of 75 Years (DC, 2015 series) ([July] 2015), ([July] 2015)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.
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A Lonely Place of Dying, Chapter Five: Rebirth
Batman / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Marv Wolfman (credited) (writer); George Pérez (credited) (co-plot)
- Pencils
- Jim Aparo (credited)
- Inks
- Mike DeCarlo (credited)
- Colors
- Adrienne Roy (credited)
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Tim Drake]; Nightwing [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Two-Face [Harvey Dent] (villain); Joker (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Tim Drake dons the Robin costume and saves Batman and Nightwing from Two-Face.
- Reprints
- in Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying (DC, 1990 series) ([October] 1990)
-
in Batman (SatellitFörlaget, 1989 series) #8/1991 (sep? 1991) -
in Batman (Semic, 1989 series) #8/1991 ([september] 1991) [16.5 pages] - in Batman (Grupo Editorial Vid, 1987 series) #116 (Enero 13 de 1992)
- in DC Comics Classics Library: Batman - A Death in the Family (DC, 2009 series) ([November] 2009)
- 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 Robin, The Boy Wonder: A Celebration of 75 Years (DC, 2015 series) ([July] 2015)
-
Indexer Notes
A Lonely Place of Dying story continues from The New Titans (DC, 1988 series) #61. Tim Drake's first appearance as Robin. Tim becomes a regular character in the strip.
[no title indexed]
Bat-Signals / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- KC Carlson (signed) (letter replies); Denny O'Neil (signed as Denny) (From the Den column)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-5182
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from Michelle E. Koller, Malcolm Bourne, Lon Wolf, Charlie Harris, and Ben M. Alsip. Has columns on "Bat Questions Answered", "Continuity Corner" and "From the Den".
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
A Lonely Place of Dying, Part 5 of 5
Batman -
1.
A Lonely Place of Dying, Chapter Five: Rebirth
Batman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Bat-Signals
This issue was most recently modified by:
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- Matthew Peets
- Mike Nielsen
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Jim Van Dore
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- Peter Croome
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