Cover: Nick Cardy

Batman #252

Oct 1973 · DC · 0.20 USD

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“The Spook's Master Stroke!”

A graveyard at midnight sets the stage for this October 1973 thriller, as Batman crouches lantern in hand over an open coffin — only to find a spectral, claw-fingered villain called the Spook looming out of the darkness above him. Nick Cardy's cover composition is genuinely unsettling, using shadow, eerie purple light from the grave below, and the Spook's green-cloaked, ghoulish form to create a real sense of dread. With a tagline promising that Batman "unearths the grave of the Spook… only to have the coffin become his own," writer Elliot S! Maggin and artist Dick Dillin deliver what looks to be one of the Dark Knight's creepier 1973 adventures.

writer Elliot S! Maggin · artist Dick Dillin · inker Dick Giordano · letterer Milt Snapinn · cover Nick Cardy

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Full credits

writer Elliot S! Maggin

artist Dick Dillin

inker Dick Giordano

letterer Milt Snapinn

cover pencils, inks Nick Cardy

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Famous actor Davy King enrolls in Hudson University to get his college degree. Mysterious accidents happen around him until Robin is able to figure out who is behind them.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).