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Issue: Detective Comics #463
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 06/29/1976
Volume: 40
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893046509
Price: $0.30 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #131.
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Batman vs Black Spider!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Black Spider [Eric Needham]; The Atom [Ray Palmer] (small image)
Reprinting
FlagBatman Superband #6 published January 1977
as Batman gegen Schwarzer Spider [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
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Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
Death-Web

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Black Spider [Eric Needham] (intro, villain); James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; "Doc" Sugarman (drug dealer, death); Slinky Hamilton (drug dealer, death); Hunk; Arthur Reeves (intro, City Commissioner); Lonnie (informant); Otto (Sugarman's thug); Jose (Sugarman's thug)
Batman breaks up a drug deal, but the dealers are killed by the Black Spider, a vigilante who emulates Batman except he prefers to eliminate drug dealers permanently.
Reprinting
FlagBatman Superband #6 published January 1977
as Heroin [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLynvingen #7/1979 published January 1979
as Dødsnettet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLäderlappen #7/1979 published June 1979
as Dödsnätet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Story continues in Detective Comics #464.

City Commissioner Arthur Reeves introduced here and featured in issue #464 as well, returns in issue #503 as Councilman Reeves who announces he is running for mayor of Gotham City. His dislike for Batman as evidenced in this issue will feature prominently in his run for mayor.
Volume 76 Issue 9 - Week of June 28, 1976

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Crimes by Calculation

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Calculator [Noah Kuttler] (villain, intro); The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Richard Bagley
Reprinting
FlagThe Flash #136 published January 1976
as Crimes by Calculation [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuperman #3/1977 published January 1977
as Kalkulators tödliches Kalkül [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagThe Atom #[nn] published January 1982
as Crimes by Calculation [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
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Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Part 1 of the Calculator serial; story continues in Detective #464.
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
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Letters of comment from Mike Christiansen, Mike White, Kevin L. Callahan, Scott Gibbson, David Hunter, Randy Myers and Loretta Graen.

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