WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT
- Dr. Sheila Haywood (birth mother of Jason Todd) — introduction
Dates
- Cover date
- [Winter] 1988
- On sale
- September 8, 1988
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #427 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 07098930430727
This edition’s page
Creators
Stories
- A Death in the Family, Chapter 3 & 4 · 44 pages
Jason meets his real mother, Sheila Haywood, but she turns out to be working for the Joker and allows her son to fall into his deadly hands inside a warehouse. Joker beats Robin with a crowbar and leaves him for dead as a badly beaten Robin attempts to save his mom and himself from the dynamite left behind by the Joker as he leaves them both to a horrible fate. Batman watches in horror as the warehouse containing Jason and Sheila blows up, too late to stop the Joker.
Characters
Reprinted in
Batman: A Death in the Family (1988), DC Comics Classics Library: Batman - A Death in the Family (2009), Batman: A Death in the Family (2011), The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years (2014), Robin, The Boy Wonder: A Celebration of 75 Years (2015), Batman: A Death in the Family The Deluxe Edition (2021), From the DC Vault: Death in the Family: Robin Lives! (2025), DC Finest: Batman: A Death in the Family (2026)