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Issue Details

Issue	#494
Published	September 1980
Cover Price	1.00 USD
Pages	68
Editing	Paul Levitz

Cover Details

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Jim Aparo
Inks	Jim Aparo

16 page Batman story "The Crime Doctor Calls at Midnight!"

Characters	The Crime Doctor (introduction, villain)
Genre	superhero
Script	Michael Fleisher
Pencils	Don Newton
Inks	Bob Smith
Colors	Adrienne Roy
Letters	Milt Snapinn
Reprinted	in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 Series) #2/1981

7 page Tales of Gotham City story "Flip"

Genre	superhero
Script	Jack C. Harris
Pencils	Dan Spiegle
Inks	Dan Spiegle
Colors	Gene D'Angelo
Letters	John Costanza
Reprinted	in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #11

1 page Hostess Fruit Pies; The Flash advertisement "The Stony-Eyed Medusa"

Characters	Flash
Genre	superhero

10 page Batgirl story "The Lesser Evil!!!"

Genre	superhero
Script	Cary Burkett
Pencils	Jose Delbo
Inks	Frank Chiaramonte
Colors	Gene D'Angelo
Letters	Milt Snapinn

8 page Robin story "The Hazing Homicide!"

Genre	superhero
Script	Jack C. Harris
Pencils	Charles Nicholas
Inks	Vince Colletta
Colors	Gene D'Angelo
Letters	Milt Snapinn

Half page DC Profiles #64 biography (nonfictional) "Dick Giordano"

Genre	BIO
Script	Mike Barr

Half page Planet Puzzle activity

Half page Hembeck! filler "Superman & Flash"

Genre	satire
Script	Fred Hembeck
Pencils	Fred Hembeck
Inks	Fred Hembeck

10 page Black Lightning story "Explosion of the Soul!"

Genre	superhero
Script	J. M. DeMatteis
Pencils	Gerald Forton
Inks	Gerald Forton
Colors	Gene D'Angelo
Letters	Ben Oda