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Issue Details

Issue #420
Published February 1972
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Cover art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics; original indexer credited the inks to Dick Giordano. Alan Kupperberg revealed in an interview with Daniel Best that he pencilled the Batman head in the left border on a lark and Neal Adams inked it. The rest of the heads are stock shots pasted in later. The Kupperberg-Adams Batman head was subsequently used on other covers.

Cover Details - "Forecast for Tonight -- Murder!"

Characters Piet van Doorn; Allan Trevor (as the Batman)
Genre superhero
Pencils Neal Adams; Alan Kupperberg (Batman head on the left border)
Inks Neal Adams
Notes Cover art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics; original indexer credited the inks to Dick Giordano. Alan Kupperberg revealed in an interview with Daniel Best that he pencilled the Batman head in the left border on a lark and Neal Adams inked it. The rest of the heads are stock shots pasted in later. The Kupperberg-Adams Batman head was subsequently used on other covers.

17 page Batman story "Forecast for Tonight... Murder!"

Characters Batman; James Gordon; Piet van Doorn; Allan Trevor
Genre superhero
Script Frank Robbins
Pencils Frank Robbins
Inks Frank Robbins
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

8 page Batgirl story "Target for Manana!"

Characters Batgirl; Jason Bard; James Gordon; Odds Lanyon; Garcia da Vega; Carlos Da Vega
Genre superhero
Script Frank Robbins
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

1 page Batman's Hot Line letters page

Notes Includes a letter from Bob Rozakis

6 page Captain Compass story "X Marks the Mystery!"

Characters Captain Compass
Genre detective
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Joe Certa
Inks Joe Certa
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #215 January 1955

6 page Gang Busters story "The Man Who Robbed a Thousand Minds"

Genre crime
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Mort Meskin
Reprinted from Gang Busters (DC, 1947 series) #57 April-May 1957