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Issue: DC Special Series #15
Publication Date: January 1978
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Issues: #15 of 27 Issues (32 Printings)
Title: Batman Spectacular
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 07/27/1978
Volume: 2
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 0709893210982
Price: $1.00 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the 1978 Library of Congress copyright records (cocatalog.loc.gov). Date given as July 27 in DC Coming Attractions #20 and in a house ad in Justice League of America #159. Date given as July 25 in Comic Reader #158.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S. (#1-17, 20-22); digest (#18, 19, 23, 24); tabloid (#25-27)
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (#1-17, 20-22, 25-27); squarebound (#18, 19, 23, 24)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]
First Line: Batman! Find my killer, or I'll rise from my grave and hang you by the neck until you are dead!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-2962
Disclose Notes: Wrap-around cover.
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Batman Spectacular Contents Page

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]
First Line: Page 3... A message from a dead man threatens he will "Hang the Batman" unless the Masked Manhunter finds his murderer!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-3005
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Hang the Batman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Commissioner Gordon [James Gordon]; Alfred Pennyworth; Bucky Somoza; Drungo; Sweetback Goss; Fast Eddie; Swifty; Horace Hobson; Joshua Carlton
First Line: There it was, outside the window of police Commissioner Gordon-- a groisque mockery of the Batman...
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In Content Item: FlagBatman Taschenbuch #3 [unnamed variant] published January 1979
as Hängt Batman [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagLäderlappen #12/1981 published November 1981
as Häng Läderlappen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 30
Job Number: S-2868
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I Now Pronounce You Batman and Wife!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Talia; Ra's Al Ghul; Lurk; Professor Vasco Marke-Witch; Snazzy Trope; DJ Barry Dark
First Line: A pale, swirling shroud covers the city and the silence seems to breathe!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBatman Taschenbuch #3 [unnamed variant] published January 1979
as Erkläre ich Euch zu Batman und Frau! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperserien #1/1983 published January 1983
as ...for rette ektefolk å være! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBatman: Tales of the Demon #[nn] published May 1991
as I Now Pronounce You Batman and Wife! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 20
Job Number: S-2954
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Death Strikes at Midnight and Three

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Anthony Toombs; Milo Lewes; Gimp Malone; Boilerplate Thomas; Bernie Sorrel; Benjamin
First Line: At eight o'clock the special prosecutor died.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagGigant #5/1984 published January 1984
as Døden kommer etter midnatt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[1] published August 1988
as Death Strikes at Midnight and Three [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[nn] published December 1988
as Death Strikes at Midnight and Three [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[nn] published June 1989
as Death Strikes at Midnight and Three [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Job Number: S-2916
Disclose Notes: Prose story with illustrations.
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Death Strikes at Midnight and Three!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]
First Line: Something new... something bold! A Batman story in prose and pictures!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Excerpt page from the interior text story on the back cover with additional promotional blurbs.

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