Batman
#242
(June 1972)
DC,
1940 Series
- Volume
- 33
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly, (with the exception of Apr. and Oct.)
- On-sale Date
- 1972-04-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [character]
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #83.
Bruce Wayne R.I.P.
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed)
- Inks
- Michael Wm. Kaluta (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- S-1200
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
- Reprints
-
in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-51 (August 1977) -
in Batman: La Saga de Ra's Al Ghul (Planeta DeAgostini, 2005 series) #1 (Junio 2005) - in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #6 ([March] 2016)
- in Batman: Tales of the Demon (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Cover art credits confirmed from Julie Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Bruce Wayne -- Rest in Peace!
Batman / comic story / 14 pages
- Script
- Denny O'Neil
- Pencils
- Irv Novick
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- S-1162
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Ra's Al Ghul (Cameo); Batman [Bruce Wayne; also as Matches Malone]; James Gordon; Dr. Harris Blaine; Lo Ling
- Synopsis
- Batman begins his war against Ra's Al Ghul by faking Bruce Wayne's death and recruiting some allies.
- Reprints
-
in Superman et Batman et Robin (Sage - Sagédition, 1969 series) #55 (juillet 1973) - in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-51 (August 1977)
-
in Batman Album (K. G. Murray, 1976 series) #40 ([Circa 1976-1978]) -
in Batman Superband (Egmont Ehapa, 1974 series) #10 (1979) -
in Lynvingen Jakten på den demoniske Ra's Al Ghul! (Semic, 1979 series) (1979) -
in Batman (Editora Abril, 1984 series) #9 (Março 1985) - in The Saga of Ra's Al Ghul (DC, 1988 series) #3 (March 1988)
- in Batman (Zinco, 1987 series) #19 (Marzo 1989), #20 (Abril 1989)
-
in Batman (Titan, 1989 series) #3 - The Demon Awakes (October 1989) - in Batman: Tales of the Demon (Warner Books, 1992 series) (1991)
- in Batman: Tales of the Demon (DC, 1991 series) ([May] 1991)
- in Batman: La Saga de Ra's Al Ghul (Planeta DeAgostini, 2005 series) #1 (Junio 2005)
- in Klassiker der Comic-Literatur (Frankfurter Allgemeine, 2005 series) #7 - Batman (2005)
- in Showcase Presents: Batman (DC, 2006 series) #6 ([March] 2016)
- in Batman: Tales of the Demon (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Death-Point!
Robin / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Mike Friedrich
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway
- Job Number
- S-1143
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lilith (of the Teen Titans); Robin [Dick Grayson]; Terri Bergstrom
- Synopsis
- While battling Cthulhu cultists, Terri is possessed by a demon.
- Reprints
- in Lynvingen (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #6/1973 ([september ?] 1973) [1 page removed]
- in Batman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1972 series) #9 (2ème trimestre 1974) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]]
- in Showcase Presents: Robin the Boy Wonder (DC, 2008 series) #1 ([March] 2008)
- in Robin: The Bronze Age Omnibus (DC, 2020 series) ([May] 2020)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julie Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
[no title indexed]
Letters to the Batman / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Julius Schwartz (signed as JS)
- Pencils
- Anthony Kowalik (illustration)
- Inks
- Neal Adams (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- S-1228
Indexer Notes
Letters of comment from readers Guy Sharwood, Lynn Woolley, C. W. Charles, William G. Laks, Bob Abrahams, and Jeff Ristine.
The People vs. the Batman
Batman and Robin / comic story / 13 pages
- Script
- Bill Finger
- Pencils
- Bob Kane (signed as Bob Kane)
- Inks
- Jerry Robinson; George Roussos (backgrounds)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- George Roussos
- Job Number
- S-1174
- Feature Logo
Batman with Robin - The Boy Wonder [30's face]- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Horatio Delmar (villain, racket leader, introduction, death); Weasel Venner (villain, introduction, death); Freddie Hill (villain); Joe (villain); Al (villain)
- Synopsis
- Weasel Venner wants to make sure that a fellow criminal doesn't make public the fact that he is the head racketeer in Gotham City, so he arranges for someone to be set up for the murder of Horatio Delmar: that someone being Bruce Wayne!
- Reprints
- from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #7 (October-November 1941)
-
Indexer Notes
Batman finally receives official police sanction in this story.
Inks credit verified by Jerry Robinson and George Roussos. Letters credit verified by George Roussos.
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Table of Contents
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0.
Bruce Wayne R.I.P.
Batman -
1.
Bruce Wayne -- Rest in Peace!
Batman -
2.
Death-Point!
Robin -
3.
[no title indexed]
Letters to the Batman -
4.
[no title indexed]
Direct Currents -
5.
The People vs. the Batman
Batman and Robin
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