Price: 0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.35 GBP
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1985-06-04
Editing: Len Wein (editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)
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Batman / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Klaus Janson (signed as Janson)
Inks:
Klaus Janson (signed as Janson)
Colors:
Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:For the first time anywhere... the all-new Black Canary!
  • Keywords:homage cover
    • Universe:DC : mainstream
Characters:
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

Black Canary's new costume.

Cover art is an homage to the cover of Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #92.

This issue has 2 variants

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #16.

Port Passed
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Batman / comic story / 16 pages

Script:
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Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:G-2030
Characters:
Batman; Robin [Jason Todd]; Harvey Bullock; Commissioner Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth
Synopsis:
Batman and Robin help Gotham PD stop a group of smugglers who have taken hostages aboard an oceanliner and threatened to blow up the Gotham Bay.
Reprints (2)

Crazy from the Heat II: The Past is Prologue
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Green Arrow and Black Canary / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
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Letters:
  • Genre:superhero
  • Job Number:G-2023
Characters:
Black Canary; Green Arrow; Bonfire
Reprints (2)

Indexer Notes

New costume for the Black Canary, after she discovers her true origin in Justice League of America #220.

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Detective Comments / letters page / 2 pages

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?
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?
Letters:
typeset
  • Job Number:L-2059

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from Rachelle Varia, Jonathan Malcolm Lampley, Gordon Symons, Dale Coe, Charles D. Brown, Stephen Scott Beau Smith, T. M. Maple and Susan M. Murrie.

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Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page

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  1. ["For the first time anywhere... the all-new Black Canary!"]
    Batman
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    Batman
  3. Crazy from the Heat II: The Past is Prologue
    Green Arrow and Black Canary
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    Detective Comments
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    Meanwhile...
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