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Issue: Detective Comics #587
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Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/31/1988
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893046506
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age US; standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint; glossy
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
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superhero
Batman [Bruce Wayne]
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Color credits confirmed by Anthony Tollin.
Night People

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; D.J. Dark (radio DJ); Michael Rossi (hobo, death); Billy (hobo); Legs (hobo); The Corrosive Man [Derek "Deke" Mitchel] (introduction, villain, prison escapee, murderer); Willy (police officer); unnamed female police officer; Harlan Woolf (cocaine smuggler); Bannen (Woolf's associate); Floyd (Woolf's associate); Babette (radio newscaster)
After midnight in Gotham, D.J. Dark hosts his nightly radio show, a hobo is killed, Batman pursues a cocaine smuggler, and police track a murderer, Deke Mitchel, who escaped from prison and is seeking someone named Kadaver. Mitchel hides from the police amongst hazardous waste, which ignites and explodes due to a random lightning strike. Mitchel is presumed dead...
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John Wagner credited with co-scripting, but not actually involved with this issue according to Alan Grant.

Mitchel is transformed into the Corrosive Man by the explosion at the end of the story, but is not actually referred to as the Corrosive Man until the next issue.
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typeset
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Letters of comment from Chris Shields, Chris Khalaf, Bill Schietroma, Chris Romano and Dorman Earl A. Larr.
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