WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Reaper (Judson Caspian, DC) — first appearance
- Rachel Caspian (DC) — first appearance
Dates
- Cover date
- June 1987
- On sale
- March 3, 1987
- Pages
- 36
Values
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Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #575 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Direct edition75¢ cover
Direct
No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
Source ↗ - Newsstand edition75¢ cover
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 0709893046506 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page - Canadian price edition1.00 CAD cover
Canadian
Printed cover price 1.00 CAD.
Barcode 0709893046506 · shared with another edition
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- Batman Year Two Chapter One: Fear the Reaper · 22 pages
A vigilante called the Reaper, who operated in Gotham City twenty years earlier, re-emerges just as Bruce Wayne begins a relationship with Rachel Caspian, though neither Bruce nor Rachel know that her father is the Reaper. After being badly beaten by the Reaper in their first encounter, Batman decides to use the very gun used to kill his parents to bring the Reaper down.
Publisher’s description
Twenty years after disappearing, a mysterious vigilante calling him self The Reaper returns to do the duty he started many years ago. Who is this new (really old) hero and is this guy a hero at all? What will cause Batman to use a gun?
Characters
Reprinted in
Batman: Year Two (1990), Batman Year Two: Fear the Reaper (2002), DC Retroactive: Batman - The '80s (2011), Legends of the Dark Knight: Alan Davis (2012), Batman: Year Two - The 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2018), DC Finest: Batman: Year One & Two (2024), Batman: Year Two 1 Batman Day Special Edition (2025)