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Issue Details

Issue #387
Published May 1969
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes This is a 30th anniversary issue. The cover contains reproductions of the covers to Detective Comics #27 and Batman #1.

Cover Details

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; The Joker; The Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot]
Genre superhero
Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Irv Novick
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (added by Gregory Fischer, May 2009).
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #2; in Showcase Presents Batman (DC, 2006 series) #4

16 page Batman story The Cry of the Night is -- "Sudden Death!"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Mel Lambert; Steven Crane; Paul Rogers; Alfred Stryker
Genre superhero
Script Mike Friedrich
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #2; in Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #627 (March 1991); in Showcase Presents Batman (DC, 2006 series) #4

Batman's Hot-line letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Includes a letter from Martin Pasko

6 page Batman story "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; James Gordon; Streven Crane; Paul Rogers; Alfred Stryker
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Bob Kane
Inks Bob Kane
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #27

1 page Fact File #7 text article "Detective Comics #27"

Genre fact
Script E. Nelson Bridwell?
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Letters typeset

2 page Batman's Souvenir Album filler

Characters Batman; Robin; Batwoman; the Joker
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff, ?
Inks Sheldon Moldoff, ?
Notes collage of various Bat-items & people
Reprinted from ? [reprinted from various sources]