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Issue: Batman #408
Publication Date: June 1987
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Issues: #408 of 715 Issues (1343 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/12/1987
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893043006
Price: $0.75 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
Disclose Notes: Cover subtitled "The New Adventures" through #416.

On-sale date from DC Releases #37.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Jason Todd
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: DC has records showing Ed Hannigan was paid for a cover sketch, Chris Warner for pencils, and Dick Giordano for inks, but Chris Warner denied having drawn this cover (via email). Nick Caputo suspects the pencils are also by Hannigan.

Logo design credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.
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Did Robin Die Tonight?

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson; also as Nightwing]; Jason Todd (1st post-Crisis); Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Vicki Vale; Ma Gunn (villain, 1st); Joker (villain); Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot] (flashback); Thomas Wayne (flashback); Martha Wayne (flashback); Joe Chill (flashback)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Job Number: G-3003
Disclose Notes: Introduction of the post-Crisis Jason Todd. Final appearance of Dick Grayson as Robin. Story continues in Batman #409.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Barbara J. Randall (replies); Denny O'Neil
Penciller(s): José Luis García-López
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Bat-Signals
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: L-2707
Disclose Notes: Letters of comment from Shelby Pankratz, T.M. Maple, Eric Shoag, Elvis Orten, Clark Kent, Kevin Dwayne, M.E. Tyrrell Gray, Malcolm Warren, Horace J. McConnell and Paul Bergman. Also includes "From the Den."

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