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Detective Comics #512

DC · Series began 1937 · March 1982

Dates

Cover date
March 1982
On sale
December 1, 1981
Pages
36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #512 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

  • Direct edition

    Direct

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

    Source ↗
  • Newsstand edition

    Newsstand

    A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

    Barcode 0709893046503

    This edition’s page

Creators

pencils: Gene Colan, Curt Swan, José Delboinks: Dick Giordano, Klaus Janson, Vince Colletta, Joe Giellacolors: Anthony Tollin, Adrienne Roy, Tom Ziukoletters: Gaspar Saladino, John Costanzascript: Gerry Conway, Bob Rozakis, Cary Burkett

Stories

  • The Fatal Prescription of Doctor Death! · 16 pages

    Batman must escape Doctor Death's death trap to stop Doctor Death, who is blackmailing the city to pay him one billion dollars for the antidote to his death dust which has infected much of the city's population.

  • Riders in the Night! · 8 pages

Reprinted in

Tales of the Batman: Gene Colan (2011), Tales of the Batman: Gerry Conway (2017), Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus (2018)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).

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