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Cover: Jason Fabok
Detective Comics #16
📊 ~92,300 copies sold its debut month
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Death of the Family: Nothin' But Smiles
Die Laughing (first appearance, villains)League of Smiles (first appearance) [Merrymaker [Byron Merideth] (first appearance, villain)The Dentist [Philip Miles] (first appearance, villain)Mr. Happy [David Hill] (first appearance, villain)Baker [Annie McCloud] (first appearance, villain)Rodney the Torch [Rodney Spurman] (first appearance, villain, quits team)]Punchline (duo, first appearance, villains)
Pecking Order
Hypnotic (villain)Mister Mosaic (villain)Mister Combustible (villain)Mister Foschini (villain, death)Imperceptible Man
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Raw (NM) $5
CGC 9.8 · 42 in census $105*
CGC 9.6 · 10 in census $49*
CGC 9.4 · 1 in census $42*
CGC 9.2 · 1 in census $36*
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Cast · 9 characters
Full credits
writer John Layman
artist, inker Jason Fabok
colorist Jeromy Cox
letterer Jared K. Fletcher
cover pencils, inks Jason Fabok
Reprints
Reprinted in Batman #15 (2013), Batman #16 (81) (2013), The Joker: Death of the Family #[nn] (2013), Batman #19 (84) (2014), Batman - Detective Comics #3 (2014), The Joker: Death of the Family #[nn] (2014), Batman - Detective Comics #3 (2014), Batman Detective Comics #3 (2016), DC Comics - A Lenda do Batman #8 (2019)
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