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Issue: Detective Comics #557
Publication Date: December 1985
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Issues: #557 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: 09/03/1985
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 CAD
£0.35 GBP
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #19.
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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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Robin Fights Alone... As a Slayer Stalks the Night!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Robin [Jason Todd]; Nightslayer
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.
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Still Beating

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman; Commissioner Gordon; Harvey Bullock; Nocturna (flashback); Catwoman (flashback); Robin [Jason Todd]; Martian Manhunter (cameo); Zatanna (cameo); Elongated Man (cameo); Nightslayer
Synopsis: Batman stays by Catwoman's side in the hospital as Nightslayer finally learns the location of Nocturna's hideout.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBatman Superband #23 published January 1986
as Sie lebt! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Job Number: G-2204
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #390; continues in (DC, 1940 series) Batman #391.
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Zen and the Art of Dying II: The Pursuit of Wisdom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Green Arrow; Onyx
Synopsis: Green Arrow must rescue Onyx as Lars finds the key to unlock the Book of Ages.
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Pages: 7
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: L-2144
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from T. M. Maple, Karen Rasco, Stephen Scott Beau Smith, Robert T. Jeschonek, Dick and Shirley and Daniel Tobias.

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