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Issue: Batman #427

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Publication Date: January 1988

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Issues: #427 of 715 Issues (1343 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 10/01/1988

Volume: none

Pages: 52

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 07098930430727

Price: $2.00 CAD
$1.50 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
3 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Denny O'Neil; Dan Raspler (assistant editor)

Notes: The newsstand edition has no UPC code on lower right hand side and does not have the 1-800 number on the inside of the issue.

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #147.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age, then Silver Age, then standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock:

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Variants2

2 Batman #427 [Direct Sales]

Batman #427 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (3 total)

A Death in the Family, Book Two of Four

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Mike Mignola (signed)

Inker(s): Mike Mignola (signed)

Colorist(s): Anthony Tollin

Letterer(s): Typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Batman

Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Jason Todd]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Color credits confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

A Death in the Family, Chapter 3 & 4

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Jim Starlin

Penciller(s): Jim Aparo

Inker(s): Mike DeCarlo

Colorist(s): Adrienne Roy

Letterer(s): John Costanza

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Batman

Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Jason Todd]; Sheila Haywood (introduction); Joker (villain); Lady Shiva (villain); Alfred Pennyworth (flashback)

Synopsis: 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.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 44

Job Number: G-3628

Robin Will Die Because the Joker Wants Revenge, but You Can Prevent It with a Telephone Call.

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Jim Aparo

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Jason Todd]

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover. This ad, only printed in the direct sales edition, contains the phone numbers for readers to call and vote "The Joker fails and Robin lives" or "The Joker succeeds and Robin will not survive."