Detective Comics #422

Apr 1972 · DC · 0.25 USD

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Contains 4 stories

Highway to Nowhere!

17 pp · Superhero

BatmanAlfred PennyworthBuzz Riley

The Unmasking of Batgirl!

9 pp · Superhero

Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]James GordonGregg Wilson

The Bush Trackers!

8 pp · Detective-Mystery

The Unseen Clue!

4 pp · Crime

Sam Hook

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Raw (Fine) $24

CGC 9.8 · 10 in census $2,336

CGC 9.6 · 19 in census $482

CGC 9.4 · 28 in census $279

CGC 9.2 · 27 in census $208

CGC 9.0 · 17 in census $180*

CGC 8.5 · 21 in census $146

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CGC 8.0 · 17 in census $131*

CGC 7.5 · 8 in census $111

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CGC 5.5 · 4 in census $68*

CGC 5.0 · 3 in census $68*

CGC 4.5 · 4 in census $56

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CGC 2.0 · 1 in census $32*

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CGC 0.5 · 1 in census $20*

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Trivia · 8 facts

The Batgirl backup story is titled 'The Unmasking of Batgirl!' — the scene in which Barbara Gordon reveals her identity to her father Commissioner Jim Gordon, who already knew, as first hinted in Detective Comics #417.
Commissioner Gordon's foreknowledge of Barbara's secret was established through a five-issue arc (#417–#421) via thought-bubble clues; #422 is the culmination where Barbara initiates the open admission herself.
Motivated by the failure of the prison system to rehabilitate a con-man she had sponsored, Barbara tells her father she wants to run for Congress in his place — launching her political career that would take her out of the Detective Comics series.
This is the first issue of Detective Comics to feature Batgirl on the cover.
The Batgirl story is written by Frank Robbins with art by Don Heck; the Batman lead story ('Highway to Nowhere!') is written by Denny O'Neil, penciled by Bob Brown, and inked by Dick Giordano; Julius Schwartz served as editor.
The cover is by Neal Adams; the Grand Comics Database notes the Batman headshot element was reused from a piece originally penciled by Alan Kupperberg and inked by Adams in Detective Comics #420.
The issue is a 52-page giant containing two reprinted backup stories: 'The Bush Trackers!' (from World's Finest Comics #59) and 'The Unseen Clue!' (from Gang Busters #54).
The Batgirl story 'The Unmasking of Batgirl!' was later reprinted in Showcase Presents: Batgirl Vol. 1 and in Batgirl: The Greatest Stories Ever Told.