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Issue Details

Issue #470
Published June 1977
Cover Price 0.35 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz, E. Nelson Bridwell (associate)

Cover Details

Characters Batman; Doctor Phosphorus
Genre superhero
Pencils Jim Aparo
Inks Jim Aparo

1 page Green Lantern advertisement "Half the People Here ..."

Genre superhero
Notes Hostess Twinkies ad

17 page Batman story "The Master Plan of Doctor Phosphorus!"

Characters I: Silver St. Cloud; Doctor Phosphorous [Alex Sartorius]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; Chief O'Hara; Rupert Thorne; Smiley Royal; Dr. Bell
Synopsis Batman confronts Dr. Phosphorus at the new Gotham City offshore nuclear power plant.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Englehart
Pencils Walt Simonson
Inks Al Milgrom
Colors Jerry Serpe
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Reprinted in Shadow of the Batman (DC, 1985 series) #1 (December 1985) [recolored]; in Batman: Strange Apparitions (DC, 1999 series) #nn ([November] 1999) [as recolored for Shadow of the Batman]; in Läderlappen (Semic Press AB, 1976 series) #1/1980

Half page text article

Script Jenette Kahn
Notes message from the publisher

Half page DC Profiles #9 biography (nonfictional) "Jack C. Harris"

Genre bio
Script Mike Gold

1 page letters page

Notes The letter column reveals that Ivy Town is Boston and that Midway is Chicago.