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Issue: Detective Comics #588
Publication Date: July 1988
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Issues: #588 of 883 Issues (1380 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/28/1988
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 07098930465907
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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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #137.
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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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Corrosive Man [Derek Mitchel]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.
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Night People, Part Two: The Corrosive Man

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; D. J. Dark; The Corrosive Man [Derek Mitchel] (villain); Da Vinci (firefighter, death); Willy (police officer); unnamed female police officer; Mr. Kadaver (villain); Webley; Legs (hobo); Billy (hobo); California [Dalton Walls] (hobo, death)
Synopsis: Rising from the explosion, Mitchel discovers he has the ability to burn through anything, and is dubbed "The Corrosive Man." Batman tries to stop Mitchel after he inadvertently kills a firefighter and burns 2 police officers, but Mitchel gets away. Blaming Kadaver for the circumstances which transformed him, Mitchel seeks him out to exact revenge. Meanwhile, Kadaver sends his aide Webley to kill a hobo named Dalton Walls.
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Pages: 22
Job Number: G-3755
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.67
Job Number: L-3212
Disclose Notes: Includes letters of comment from Dale Coe, Randolph Furan, Paul Carbonaro, Jimmy Fears, Russ Bedell, Jeff Mitchell and Todd Beard. Replies by Dan Raspler.
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): From the Den
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Editorial column.

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