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Detective Comics #840

DC · Series began 1937 · March 2008

Dates

Cover date
March 2008
On sale
January 4, 2008
In stores
January 4, 2008
Pages
36

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Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #840 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

  • Direct Sales

    Barcode 76194120019484011

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  • Newsstand edition

    Newsstand

    A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

    Barcode 07098930465940

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Story arc: The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul

This is part 11 of 11. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

  1. Batman Annual #26
  2. Batman #670
  3. Robin Annual #7
  4. Robin #168
  5. Nightwing #138
  6. Detective Comics #838
  7. Batman #671
  8. Robin #169
  9. Nightwing #139
  10. Detective Comics #839
  11. Detective Comics #840

Creators

pencils: Dustin Nguyeninks: Dustin Nguyen, Derek Fridolfscolors: Dustin Nguyen, John Kaliszscript: Paul Dini, Dan DiDioletters: Randolph Gentile

Stories

  • The Resurrection of Ra's al Ghul, Epilogue · 22 pages

    Batman returns to Gotham to face a new threat in the form of The Globe, a map-obsessed mastermind who charts his crimes with deadly accuracy. After Batman stops The Globe and gets back a jewel-covered globe, Ra's arrives with ninjas, and takes the globe from Batman. Batman decides to put a stop to Ra's, and captures him and puts him in an insane asylum under the name of Terry Gene Kase.

Publisher’s description

Dustin Nguyen joins writer Paul Dini as ongoing artist! Still haunted by the specter of Ra's Al Ghul, Batman returns to Gotham to face a new threat in the form of The Globe, a map-obsessed mastermind who charts his crimes with deadly accuracy!

Reprinted in

Batman: Private Casebook (2008), Batman: Private Casebook (2009)

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