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Issue: Detective Comics #480
Publication Date: November 1978
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Issues: #480 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
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: 08/22/1978
Volume: 42
Pages: 44
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893046512
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #159.
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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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The Perfect Fighting Machine

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Gork; Hawkman [Katar Hol; Carter Hall] (inset)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-2981
Disclose Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin. Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.
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The Perfect Fighting Machine

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Gork; Ivan Angst; Dr. Douglas Dundee; Dr. Moon; Mercenaries, Inc.
Synopsis: The leader of a gang of mercenaries enlists Dr. Moon to transform a man into the perfect fighting machine, and decides to test his new weapon against Batman.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: S-3004
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Green Lantern vs. Mirror Master

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Lantern [Hal Jordan]; Mirror Master [Sam Scudder]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.6
Job Number: F-15
Disclose Notes: Questions from David Stewart, Russell Reeves, Matt Morgan, Tony Reyes, Daryl Robinson, Bret Snyder, Greg Zeigler, Jeffrey Charles Conner, Li Lyn Hazelton, Doug Peterson, Richard W. Delong, Ricky Ford and Amy Dunbar.
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43 Bob Smith

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: biography
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.4
Disclose Notes: Script credit per Michael Catron.
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The Case of the Off-Key Crimes!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Hawkman [Katar Hol; Carter Hall]; Hawkgirl [Shayera Hol; Shiera Hall]; Pied Piper [Hartley Rathaway]; Commissioner Emmett
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman #12/1979 published May 1979
as Horror in Moll [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: S-3001
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

The feature moves to World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) beginning with issue #256 (April-May 1979) of that title.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-2989
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Mike White, David Wood and Wallace L. Hopkins.

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