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Cover of Detective Comics #409
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Detective Comics #409

DC · Series began 1937 · March 1971

Dates

Cover date
March 1971
On sale
January 28, 1971
Pages
36

Values

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Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Neal Adams, Bob Brown, Don Heckinks: Dick Giordano, Frank Giacoialetters: Gaspar Saladino, Ben Odascript: Frank Robbins, Julius Schwartz, Bernard Kashdan

Stories

  • Man in the Eternal Mask! · 15 pages
  • Night of the Sharp Horns! · 7 pages

Publisher’s description

Batman and an artist must discover the identity of a mysterious mutilator of the artist’s portraits. Continuing from last issue...Barbara Gordon was in Madrid, Spain, to collect a rare manuscript for the Gotham Library when she suddenly found herself caught up in a murder mystery involving an aging bullfighter’s lost bull. Suspecting bullfighter El Grandos, a young bullfighter named Paco or the groundskeeper Manolo as potential culprits, Batgirl sets out to search for clues and stop the “Phantom Bullfighter” from striking again the next night.

Reprinted in

Showcase Presents: Batman (2006), Showcase Presents: Batgirl (2007), Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (2018)

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