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Issue: Detective Comics #500

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Publication Date: March 1981

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Issues: #500 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: 12/23/1980

Volume: 45

Pages: 84

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893046503

Price: $1.50 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
10 (7 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s):

Notes: Lots of former Detective characters in the back-up Slam Bradley strip.

On-sale date from Comic Reader #186.

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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

Format Notes:

Variants2

Detective Comics #500 [Direct]

3 Detective Comics #500 [Newsstand]

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Images3

Cover, Wraparound

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Title Page

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Cover, Front Only (of Wraparound and/or Gatefold)

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Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Wraparound from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): ? (unidentified male)

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Pages: 2

Notes: Wraparound cover.

Montage of characters featured in Detective Comics composed by Bob LeRose (signed, also noted in "The Guest List" inside back cover).

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

Detective Comics

Table of Contents on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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Pages: 1

Notes: Contents page with illustration on inside front cover. Colorist added per comments by Anthony Tollin on Facebook on June 26, 2019: "I'm pretty certain that I colored this page. If not, [my] late wife Adrienne Roy colored it, but I'm pretty certain it was colored by yours truly (who also co-colored the cover with my late boss and mentor, Jack Adler)."

To Kill a Legend

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Joe Chill (alternate Earth, death); Lieutenant James Gordon (alternate Earth); Barbara Kean (alternate Earth); Lew Moxon (alternate Earth); Bruce Wayne (alternate Earth); Martha Wayne (alternate Earth); Thomas Wayne (alternate Earth)

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Pages: 19

Job Number: J-6870

Notes: This story takes place on June 21st, mostly on an alternate Earth where young Bruce Wayne's parents are about to be murdered by Joe Chill. The Earth-One Batman's parents were murdered on June 26, exactly 20 years earlier, when Bruce was 8 years old. As Batman explains, the difference in dates is due to the five leap days that occurred during those two decades.

Fans have assigned this alternate Earth the designation "Earth-Five", however that name is not official.

The "Too Many Cooks..." Caper!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Character(s): Victor Dominion (villain, death); Archie Evergreen (death);

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Pages: 13

Job Number: J-7087

Notes: With lots of cameos and guest-stars in this anniversary issue.

Once Upon a Time...

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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Pages: 2

Job Number: J-7176

Notes: Text is from a number of Peanuts strips published in 1970.

The Final Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Edgar Allan Poe (flashback); Edwin Allman Pohe; Marcia Douglas; Steve Billman

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Pages: 8

Job Number: J-6992

The Batman Encounters - Gray Face

Text Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Gray Face (villain)

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Pages: 8

Job Number: J-7170

Notes: Text story with small illustrations.

The Strange Death of Doctor Erdel

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Professor Mark Erdel (in flashback); Fred Schneider (cameo, also in flashback); Anna Erdel (in flashback, Prof. Erdel's niece)

Synopsis: The Hawks solve The Strange Death of Dr. Erdel.

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Pages: 8

Job Number: J-7060

Notes: Title taken from contents page. Also listed in last panel of story.

What Happens When a Batman Dies?

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

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Pages: 22

Job Number: J-6876

The Guest List

Text Article on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

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Pages: 1

Notes: Reproduction of cover in various states of completion, plus text about the characters. On inside back cover.