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Issue Details

Issue #575
Published June 1987
Cover Price 0.75 USD
Pages 36
Editing Denny O'Neil

Cover Details - "Batman Year Two Part 1"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Alan Davis (signed)
Inks Paul Neary (signed)
Letters Typeset
Reprinted in Batman: Year Two (DC, 1990 series) #nn; in Batman Year Two: Fear the Reaper (DC, 2002 series) #[nn]

22 page Batman story "Batman Year Two, Chapter One: Fear the Reaper"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Commissioner Jim Gordon; Rachel Caspian; Reaper [Judson Caspian]; Leslie Thompkins; Alfred Pennyworth; Thomas Wayne (in portrait); Martha Wayne (in portrait)
Synopsis A vigilante called the Reaper, who operated in Gotham City twenty years earlier, re-emerges just as Bruce Wayne begins a relationship with Rachel Caspian, though neither Bruce nor Rachel know that her father is the Reaper. After being badly beaten by the Reaper in their first encounter, Batman decides to use the very gun used to kill his parents to bring the Reaper down.
Genre Superhero
Script Mike W. Barr
Pencils Alan Davis
Inks Paul Neary
Colors Adrienne Roy
Letters Richard Starkings
Notes Companion and follow-up to Batman: Year One just finished in Batman 404-407.
Reprinted in Batman: Year Two (DC, 1990 series) #nn; in Batman Year Two: Fear the Reaper (DC, 2002 series) #[nn]

2 page Detective Comments letters page

Script ? (see notes)
Letters typeset
Notes Letters from Kevin Hall, Vincent R Bellizia, Jr., Dale Coe, Jay Neale III, Fred L. DeBoom, and Bob Shubnowski, with responses from Barbara Randall and a "From the Den" editorial by Denny O'Neil.