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Issue: Detective Comics #509

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Publication Date: December 1981

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Issues: #509 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 09/24/1981

Volume: 45

Pages: 40

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893046512

Price: £0.20 GBP
$0.60 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s):

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #194.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color cover; color interior

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: newsprint; glossy

Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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2 Detective Comics #509 [Direct]

Detective Comics #509 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (4 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Cat-Man [Thomas Blake]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: C-724

Notes: Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

Nine Lives Has the Cat...

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Cat-Man [Thomas Blake] (villain); Selina Kyle [Catwoman]; Commissioner James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; Doctor Terrence Thirteen [The Ghost Breaker]; Man-Bat [Kirk Langstrom] (flashback); Vicki Vale (unnamed cameo)

Synopsis: As Bruce and Selina re-evaluate their relationship, Cat-Man strikes, seeking revenge against Catwoman and Batman for his previous defeat at their hands.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 19

Job Number: J-7632

Notes: Batman and Catwoman last faced Cat-Man in Batman (DC, 1940 series) #323-324.

The Fires of Destruction!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]

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Pages: 8

Job Number: J-7681

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Batcave

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: L-898

Notes: Snyder credit per Gary Usher's Robin Snyder Comic Book List. Letters of comment from Jeffrey Lowndes, Susan Lattanzio, Charles D. Brown, and Kent A. Phenis.