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Product Details
Batman (1940) - 338 (Direct)
Product Code:August, 1981
weight:100.0g
Product Condition:Used
$0.00 inc. tax
Description
Volume
42
Price
0.50 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1981-04-14
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Dick Giordano (editor); Cary Burkett (associate editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
This Sporting Death!
Batman / cover / 1 page(report information)
Pencils
Jim Aparo (signed)
Inks
Jim Aparo (signed)
Colors
Tatjana Wood
Letters
?
Job Number
C-635
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Sportsman [Martin Mantle]
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
This Sporting Death!
Batman / comic story / 17 pages
Script
Gerry Conway (script); Roy Thomas (plot assist)
Pencils
Irv Novick
Inks
Frank McLaughlin
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
John Costanza
Genre
superhero
Characters
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Sportsman [Martin Mantle] (villain, origin); Hank Klugmuun (death); Commissioner James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; Pierre Foote (death); Martin Mantle Sr. (flashback); Louisa Mantle (flashback)
Synopsis
Batman investigates the death of several sports figures, and finds that it is the work of a new villain, The Sportsman.
Superman vs. the Laughing Gas Bandits /
Hostess Fruit Pies; Superman / comics-form advertising / 1 page
Murder on the Midway, Part Two: Killer Under the Big Top!
Robin / comic story / 8 pages
Script
Gerry Conway
Pencils
Don Newton
Inks
Steve Mitchell
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
Pierre Bernard Jr.
Genre
superhero
Characters
Robin [Dick Grayson]; Lorna Hill [as Lourna Hill]; Jo-Jo Jones (Flashback); Waldo Flynn (Flashback); Magnificent Melanie; Tiny; Vashnu
Synopsis
At the circus, Robin investigates to determine who killed Jo-Jo Jones.
Keywords
Hill's Circus
Indexer Notes
Story continues from Batman #337.
Credits illegibly muddy on the tentpole on the splash page in this printing, but legible in reprint in Batman Taschenbuch reprint.
Lorna Hill is misspelled here as Lourna Hill.
[no title indexed]
Bat-Signals / letters page / 1 page
Script
Dick Giordano
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-820
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from David F. Mickus, Steve Thompson, Jeffrey Lowndes and Bill Norton.
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