Detective Comics #505

Dates

Cover date

August 1981

On sale

May 21, 1981

Pages

36

Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #505 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

• Direct edition50¢ cover

  Direct

  No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.

  This edition’s page
• Newsstand edition50¢ cover

  Newsstand

  A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

  Barcode 0709893046508

  Source ↗
• UK pence edition0.15 GBP cover

  British

  Printed cover price 0.15 GBP.

  This edition’s page

Publisher’s description

To save the life of a young girl, Batman must hunt down a man from his past whom he thought dead...Anthony Lupus a werewolf.

Reprinted in

Batgirl and Robin (1982), Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway (2017), Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (2018)