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Issue: Detective Comics #464
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 07/29/1976
Volume: 40
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893046510
Price: $0.30 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #132.
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Black Spider [Eric Needham]
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Miscellaneous
1
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Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
The Doomsday Express!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Black Spider [Eric Needham] (apparent death); Alfred Pennyworth; James Gordon; 'Doc' Sugarman (flashback, drug dealer, death); Otto (flashback, Sugarman's thug); Jose (flashback, Sugarman's thug); unnamed drug dealer from Paris (death); Maria (prostitute); mugging victim (flashback); Black Spider's father (flashback, death); Arthur Reeves; frightened train passenger
Narrowly avoiding a brush with death, Batman must track down Black Spider before he kills again.
Reprinting
FlagBatman Superband #6 published January 1977
as Der Biss der Spinne [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagLynvingen #7/1979 published January 1979
as Dødsnettet [Story on Interior Page(s)]page 1 and 3 removed
FlagLäderlappen #7/1979 published June 1979
as Dödsnätet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
11
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Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Story continued from Detective #463.

Black Spider appears to die at the end of the story, but he returns in Batman #306.
Twinkies and Kelp

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Aquaman; Mera
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Miscellaneous
1
Justice for All Includes Children, 7

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
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Miscellaneous
1
A Hot Time in Star City Tonight

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Calculator [Noah Kuttler] (villain); The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Black Canary [Dinah Lance]
Reprinting
FlagWundergirl #8 published January 1976
as Central City im Feuersturm [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
6
S-2357
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. The records confirm Bob Rozakis as the writer, but they do not mention Laurie Rozakis.

Part 2 of the Calculator serial; story continues in Detective #465.
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (illustration)
? (illustration)
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typeset
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Miscellaneous
1
S-2405
Letters of comment from Joe Peluso, William MacDonald Neville, Danny Raskio, Scott Gibson, Jim Guida and Gerald Duet.

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