Cover: José Luis García-López

Detective Comics #483

Apr 1979 · DC · 1.00 USD

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“The Curse of Crime Alley”

Detective Comics #483 marks the fabulous 40th anniversary of the title with a jam-packed 68-page, ad-free celebration starring the Batman Family across six new stories. José Luis García-López's cover splits the scene in two: on the left, a gunman pistol-whips a man in a darkened street while terrified bystanders recoil — a grim echo of Crime Alley's past — and on the right, Batman himself surges forward, trading blows with a thug as panicked onlookers scramble away, with the Dark Knight looming large in silhouette above it all. With Denny O'Neil, Don Newton, and a full creative team delivering "The Curse of Crime Alley," this 1979 milestone offers a rich, atmospheric slice of Batman at his street-level best.

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writer Denny O'Neil · artist Don Newton · inker Dan Adkins · colorist Adrienne Roy · letterer Todd Klein · cover José Luis García-López

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Full credits

writer Denny O'Neil

artist Don Newton

inker Dan Adkins

colorist Adrienne Roy

letterer Todd Klein

cover pencils, inks José Luis García-López

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On the anniversary of his parents' deaths, Batman returns to Crime Alley to visit Leslie Thompkins, and discovers that Maxie Zeus is planning to take out a former associate with a plan that endangers innocent lives.

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