Volume: 40
Price: 0.40 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1979-03-06
Editing: Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor); Paul Levitz (credited) (editor)
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Batman / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors:
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:C-954
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Gotham City's strangest crime wave begins... ...when the Calendar Man strikes!
Characters:
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Calendar Man
Reprints (5)

Indexer Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

This issue has 2 variants

Issue Data

  • Publisher's Brand: DC [bullet]
  • Indicia / Colophon Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
  • Indicia Frequency: monthly
  • Publisher's Age Guidelines: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
  • Printer: Printed in U.S.A.
  • Barcode: 0709893043006

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #166.

A Caper a Day Keeps the Batman at Bay!
(Table of Contents: 1)

Batman / comic story / 17 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:J-5943
Characters:
Calendar Man (villain); Two-Face (cameo); Batman [Bruce Wayne]; James Gordon; Dr. Douglas Dundee; Lucius Fox
Reprints (9)

Superman Meets the Orbitrons!
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 2)

Hostess Twinkies; Superman / comics-form advertising / 1 page

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Bat-Signals / letters page / 1 page

Script:
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L-264

Volume 79 Issue 9 - Week of March 5, 1979
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 4)

Daily Planet / in-house column / 0.6 page

[no title indexed]
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 5)

The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.2 page

[Batman & Red Tornado]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Hembeck / comic story / 0.2 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:satire-parody; humor; superhero

Indexer Notes

Part of the Daily Planet page.

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. ["Gotham City's strangest crime wave begins... ...when the Calendar Man strikes!"]
    Batman
  2. A Caper a Day Keeps the Batman at Bay!
    Batman
  3. Superman Meets the Orbitrons!
    Hostess Twinkies; Superman
  4. [no title indexed]
    Bat-Signals
  5. Volume 79 Issue 9 - Week of March 5, 1979
    Daily Planet
  6. [no title indexed]
    The Answer Man
  7. [Batman & Red Tornado]
    Hembeck
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  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
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  • Derek Reinhard
  • Alan Smith
  • Jim Van Dore
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