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Issue: Millennium Edition: Detective Comics No. 395 #[nn]
Publication Date: June 2000
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Variant: Direct Sales
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC Comics Millennium EditionView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 04/27/2000
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 76194122499200111
Price: $3.95 CAD
$2.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (3 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: one-shot
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Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams' First Tale of the Dark Knight

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman; Delores Muerto
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From Content Item: FlagDetective Comics #395 published January 1970
was The Secret of the Waiting Graves [Illustration on Cover, Front]minus the price and job code
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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Detective Comics #395 O'Neil and Adams Come to Gotham City

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Remembering the Millennium
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: An overview of the context of this issue and the changes to Batman during the 1960s; also talking about the specific stories and the credits. This was also the first of the Millennium Editions to be voted on by the fans, and received nearly three times as many of the over 6,000 votes cast as the next runner-up, Wonder Woman #178. Appears on inside front and back covers.
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The Secret of the Waiting Graves

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: horror, superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Juan Muerto; Dolores Muerto; Pedro Valdes; Manuel
First Line: A bleak hillside on central Mexico... a pair of open graves... and the shadow of the dread... Batman
Synopsis: Bruce Wayne is invited to a grand fiesta by Mexican socialites Juan and Dolores Muerto. As Batman, he thwarts the assassination of one of the guests and finds that the Muertos have discovered the secret of immortality.
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From Content Item: FlagDetective Comics #395 published January 1970
was The Secret of the Waiting Graves [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 15.17
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. In this Millennium Edition, it incorrectly just says "Art by Neal Adams" for this story in the credits on the inside back cover, although Giordano's inking credit still appears on the reprinted sequence.

First line is completed by the feature logo illustration.

"Muerto", fittingly, is the Spanish word for "dead" or "deceased person".

Described as "Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams' First Tale of the Dark Knight" on the cover of this issue.
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Drop Out... or Drop Dead!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Robin [Dick Grayson]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Jonah Haggenmiller; Firebrand Fran
First Line: Dick (Robin) Grayson's first day at Hudson University has been an eventful one!
Synopsis: Robin discovers the truth behind the fake cops and demonstrators that created the riot at Hudson University.
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From Content Item: FlagDetective Comics #395 published January 1970
was Drop Out... or Drop Dead! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 7.67
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Story continues from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #394.
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Crime-Writing Clues!

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Genres: informational, non-fiction
First Line: A forger who makes a perfect copy of a victim's signature can easily be apprehended because no one ever signs his name the same way twice.
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From Content Item: FlagBatman #168 published December 1964
was Crime-Writing Clues! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: This filler was also reprinted in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #395 (January 1970), which is why they reproduced it in this Millennium Edition.

Four panels with captions and dialogue, each depicting a different technique of identifying perpetrators of crimes that involve handwritten or typewritten notes such as forgery or blackmail.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Superman; Wonder Woman; Green Lantern [Kyle Rayner]; Martian Manhunter; Flash [Wally West]; Aquaman; Batman
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Subscription ad TNANN200. Appears on page 19 in this issue.
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House Advertisements

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Pages: 7.16
Disclose Notes: House ads for: Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood, Batman: It's Joker Time, Plastic Man Archives vol. 1 (1/3 page), Flash of Two Worlds statue, Batman in the Sixties (1/2 page), Silver Age Archives (Justice League of America, Green Lantern, Flash, New Teen Titans, Legion of Super-Heroes), Batman/Lobo, Green Lantern Archives vol. 1/Flash Archives vol. 1 (1/3 page), and Robin statue. Appear in various places in this issue.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Feature(s): Got Milk?; Superman
Character(s): Superman
First Line: Want bones of steel?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Full-page ad with Superman for the "Got milk?" campaign by dairy producers.

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