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Issue Details

Issue #576
Published July 1987
Cover Price 0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages 36
Editing Denny O'Neil; Dick Giordano (executive editor)

Cover Details - "Batman Year Two Part 2"

Characters Batman; Reaper [Judson Caspian]
Genre Superhero
Pencils Todd McFarlane (signed)
Inks Pablo Marcos (signed)
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Batman (Ediciones Zinco, 1987 series) #6 [Spain]; in Batman: Year Two (DC, 1990 series) #[nn] (1990) [reduced to 1/3]; in Batman Year Two: Fear the Reaper (DC, 2002 series) #[nn]

22 page Batman story "Batman Year Two, Chapter Two: Deal with the Devil"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Big Willie Golonka; Bukowski; Reaper [Judson Caspian]; Commissioner Jim Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; Leslie Thompkins; Rachel Caspian; Mary Rachel Caspian (flashback); Johnny Heymer; Morgan Jones; Mr. Morritz; Joe Chill
Synopsis As Bruce and Rachel grow closer, Batman crosses paths with the Reaper again. Desperate to put an end to the Reaper's brutal form of justice, Batman makes an alliance with a cabal of mob bosses, who pair the hero with their enforcer, Joe Chill.
Genre Superhero
Script Mike W. Barr
Pencils Todd McFarlane
Inks Alfredo Alcala
Colors Adrienne Roy
Letters Agustin Mas
Reprinted in Batman (Ediciones Zinco, 1987 series) #6 [Spain]; in Batman: Year Two (DC, 1990 series) #[nn] (1990); in Batman Year Two: Fear the Reaper (DC, 2002 series) #[nn] (2002)

2 page Detective Comments letters page

Script ? (see notes)
Letters typeset
Notes Letters on Detective Comics #572 from Douglas A. Puthoff, Thomas P. McNulty, Dale Coe, Frank Simonetti, T.M. Maple, Jim Ficken, Anne Guerra, and Chris Myers, with responses from Barbara Randall and a "From the Den" editorial by Denny O'Neil.