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Detective Comics #420

DC · Series began 1937 · February 1972

Dates

Cover date
February 1972
On sale
December 30, 1971
Pages
52

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Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Neal Adams, Alan Kupperberg, Frank Robbins, Don Heck, Joe Certa, Mort Meskininks: Neal Adams, Frank Robbins, Don Heck, Joe Certa, Mort Meskinletters: Gaspar Saladino, Ben Odascript: Frank Robbins, Julius Schwartz, Otto Binder

Stories

  • Forecast for Tonight... Murder! · 17 pages
  • Target for Mañana! · 8 pages
  • X Marks the Mystery! · 6 pages
  • The Man Who Robbed a Thousand Minds · 6 pages

Publisher’s description

Batman waits under the gangplank for a man known as the “Nemesis” to disembark from a freighter recently arrived from South Africa. But when Batman captures the final figure to leave the boat, he discovers it is not the man he is looking for. Instead, thanks to a Geiger counter he is carrying (the man he is after has worked for years in a radioactive area), Batman realizes that his quarry is in a coffin that was just unloaded off the ship and sent out in a hearse.

Reprinted in

Superman Supacomic (1959), Superman Presents World's Finest Comic Monthly (1965), Terror Tales Album (1977), Showcase Presents: Batman (2006), Showcase Presents: Batgirl (2007), Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (2018)

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