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Issue: Batman #342

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Publication Date: December 1981

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Issues: #342 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: 09/10/1981

Volume: 42

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893043012

Price: £0.20 GBP
$0.60 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Dick Giordano (editor); Dave Manak (associate editor)

Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #194.

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Format

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:

Variants2

Batman #342 [Direct]

Batman #342 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (4 total)

Man-Bat Is Back!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): Denys Cowan (signed)

Inker(s): Dick Giordano (signed)

Colorist(s): Tatjana Wood

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Batman

Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Man-Bat [Kirk Langstrom]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: C-682

Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

Requiem for a Hero

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Gerry Conway

Penciller(s): Irv Novick

Inker(s): Frank McLaughlin

Colorist(s): Adrienne Roy

Letterer(s): Shelly Leferman

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Batman

Character(s): Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Man-Bat [Kirk Langstrom]; Doctor Terrence Thirteen [The Ghost Breaker]; Commissioner James Gordon; Miss Crum; Lucius Fox; Boss Rupert Thorne; Hugo Strange (ghost); Francine Langstrom; Rebecca Langstrom; Alfred Pennyworth; Poison Ivy (flashback); Hamilton Hill (photo, identified as Harrison Hill)

Synopsis: Batman rescues Dr. Thirteen from Man-Bat's attack in the Batcave, but Man-Bat escapes. After learning from Francine Langstrom that Kirk has changed after taking the wrong dosage of Man-Bat serum, Batman returns to the caves near Wayne Manor to try the help Kirk, who in his delirium believes that his daughter is dead and that Batman is responsible.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 19

Job Number: J-7551

Notes: Story continues from Batman #341.

Burn, Robin, Burn

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Gerry Conway

Penciller(s): Trevor Von Eeden

Inker(s): Frank Chiaramonte

Colorist(s): Carl Gafford

Letterer(s): Shelly Leferman

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Robin

Character(s): Robin [Dick Grayson]; Sharkey; Deanna (the coven's female captive)

Synopsis: Robin must save a young woman and himself from Sharkey's coven that wants to sacrifice both of them.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Job Number: J-7719

Notes: Story continues from Batman #341.

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Robin Snyder

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Bat Signals

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: L-896

Notes: Snyder credit per Gary Usher's Robin Snyder Comic Book List; previous indexer credited Dick Giordano. Letters of comment from Christopher R. Sullivan, Tim Wahowske, John Hebert, Charles D. Brown and Matt Kurtz.