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Issue: Detective Comics #387
Publication Date: May 1969
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Issues: #387 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/27/1969
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Batman's 30th Anniversary Issue

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Joker; The Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Best of DC #2 published November 1979
as The Sixties [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Batman #4 published September 2009
as Detective Comics #387 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-140
Disclose Notes: Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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The Cry of the Night is -- "Sudden Death!"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Mel Lambert; Steven Crane; Paul Rogers; Alfred Stryker
First Line: To many, the gathering darkness of night calms the troubled turmoil of the world.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLynvingen #1/1970 published January 1970
as Et skrik i natten [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Best of DC #2 published November 1979
as The Cry of Night Is-- "Kill!" [Story on Interior Page(s)]retitled
In Content Item: FlagBatman Extra #1 published January 1980
as Der Schrei der Nacht ist ... "Rascher Tod!" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDetective Comics #627 [Direct] published March 1991
as The Cry of Night Is-- "Kill!" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagShowcase Presents: Batman #4 published September 2009
as The Cry of the Night is -- "Sudden Death!" [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15.83
Job Number: S-106
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Pages 8 and 17 have paid advertisements taking up the bottom third of the page.

Page 11 has a half-page house ad for Adventure Comics #380 (May 1969) at the bottom of the page.

This is a "modern" version of "The Case Of The Chemical Syndicate." An editorial note at the end of the story explains: "Every old-time BATMANIAC knows of BATMAN'S creation by teen-age BOB KANE! DC's current teen-rage, MIKE FRIEDRICH, updated this issue's yarn from the very first BATMAN story ever published (in DETECTIVE COMICS #27, May 1939)."
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S137
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Martin Pasko, George Bell, Bruce Mellor and Steve Beery.
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The Case of the Chemical Syndicate

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; James Gordon; Streven Crane; Paul Rogers; Alfred Stryker
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagDetective Comics #27 published May 1939
was The Case of the Chemical Syndicate [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: S-146
Disclose Notes: This is not a reprint of the original story from Detective Comics #27 (May 1939). The story presented here as having been originally published in Detective Comics #27 is a redrawn (traced), re-lettered, and censored version.
• The knife jutting from the back of the murder victim (page 2, panel 2) has been removed.
• A word balloon where the killer confesses to the crime (page 6, panel 2 - "Sure... I did it! But you won't send me to the 'chair' for it! I'll -- ") has been deleted.
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#7: Detective Comics #27

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Fact File
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-138
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Batman's Souvenir Album

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Batman; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batwoman; The Joker
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Collage of panels of Bat-items & people from various sources.

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