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Issue: Detective Comics #498
Publication Date: January 1981
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Issues: #498 of 883 Issues (1380 Printings)
Title:
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: 10/23/1980
Volume: 45
Pages: 40
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893046501
Price: $0.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #184.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; color interior
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
Format Notes:  
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Blockbuster's Back in Town!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Blockbuster [Mark Desmond]; Batgirl [Barbara Gordon] (head shot)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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Night of the Savage

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Blockbuster [Mark Desmond] (villain); Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Sharon (Commissioner Gordon's secretary); Hawkins; Lou; Ernie; Willie Macon; Mickey (thug); Willie Macon's wife; Ajax (villain); Roger Harp (news anchor, image on TV); 'Boss' Dooley; Dooley's men
Synopsis: Blockbuster, after being presumed drowned in Gotham Harbor, washes ashore near a small West Virginia town, where he befriended by a local miner. When Batman travels to there to investigates a Blockbuster sighting, the local union boss assumes Batman is there to investigate his criminal activities and takes steps to eliminate him.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: J-6893
Disclose Notes: The first few pages of the story take place shortly after Batman's last encounter with Blockbuster in Batman #309. In the present, Batman is shown to be recovering from the gunshot would he received in Detective Comics #497.

Story continues in Detective Comics #499.
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The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; Bureauc-Rat
Synopsis: The Flash stops the Bureauc-Rat and his Red-Tape gun with a hostess fruit pie.
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Pages: 1
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The Tightening Web!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Commissioner James Gordon; Robert "Bob" Barton; Richard Bender; Jeff Cotton; Jim Dover; Assistant District Attorney Charles Turner; Randall F. Borowitz; Doreen Gray
Synopsis: With Barbara charged with murder, and new evidence continuing to pile up against her, Batgirl must investigate to find out who is framing her.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: J-6993
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Batcave
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: L-663
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Brian Nelson, Steve Gawronski and Rick Kennedy.

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