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Issue: Detective Comics #500
Publication Date: March 1981
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Issues: #500 of 883 Issues (1409 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 45
Pages: 84
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 10 (7 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Lots of former Detective characters in the back-up Slam Bradley strip.
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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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Cover, Wraparound
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Wraparound
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): ? (unidentified male)
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose 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.
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Detective Comics

Table of Contents  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose 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)."
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To Kill a Legend

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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)
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBatman Sonderausgabe #1 published January 1981
as Ende einer Legende [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Best of DC #23 [Direct Sales] published April 1982
as To Kill a Legend [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGigant #4/1983 published January 1983
as En legende dør [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[1] published August 1988
as To Kill a Legend [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[nn] published December 1988
as To Kill a Legend [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[nn] published June 1989
as To Kill a Legend [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBatman in the Eighties #[nn] published November 2004
as To Kill a Legend [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 19
Job Number: J-6870
Disclose 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.
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The "Too Many Cooks..." Caper!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Victor Dominion (villain, death); Archie Evergreen (death);
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 13
Job Number: J-7087
Disclose Notes: With lots of cameos and guest-stars in this anniversary issue.
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Once Upon a Time...

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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In Content Item: FlagSupermann #11/1981 published January 1981
as Det var en gang ... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagBatman #10/1990 published December 1990
as Det var en gång... [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: J-7176
Disclose Notes: Text is from a number of Peanuts strips published in 1970.
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The Final Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Edgar Allan Poe (flashback); Edwin Allman Pohe; Marcia Douglas; Steve Billman
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: J-6992
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The Batman Encounters - Gray Face

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Gray Face (villain)
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: J-7170
Disclose Notes: Text story with small illustrations.
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The Strange Death of Doctor Erdel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: J-7060
Disclose Notes: Title taken from contents page. Also listed in last panel of story.
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What Happens When a Batman Dies?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBatman Sonderausgabe #1 published January 1981
as Zwischen Leben und Tod [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Job Number: J-6876
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The Guest List

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Reproduction of cover in various states of completion, plus text about the characters. On inside back cover.

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