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Cover of Detective Comics #601
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Detective Comics #601

DC · Series began 1937 · June 1989

Dates

Cover date
June 1989
On sale
May 4, 1989
Pages
36

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Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #601 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.

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  • Newsstand edition

    Newsstand

    A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

    Barcode 07098930465906

    This edition’s page

Creators

pencils: Norm Breyfogleinks: Norm Breyfogle, Steve Mitchellcolors: Bob LeRose, Adrienne Royscript: Alan Grant, Dan Rasplerletters: Todd Klein

Stories

  • Tulpa, Part One: Monster Maker · 22 pages

    A man of Tibetan descent owes money to gangsters, so he uses magic to create a tupla, a doppelgänger of himself, to steal the money.

Publisher’s description

Driven to desperation, a seemingly harmless man seeks to protect himself with the aid of ancient magic...and even the Batman may not be able to stop the creature this turns loose on Gotham City.

Characters

Bruce WayneBatman

Reprinted in

Legends of the Dark Knight: Norm Breyfogle (2015), Batman: The Dark Knight Detective (2018)

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

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