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Cover: Dick Giordano & Joe Kubert & Carmine Infantino & Walter Simonson & Tom Yeates & José Luis García-López & Bob Smith

Detective Comics #500

Mar 1981 · DC · 1.50 USD
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Contains 6 stories
To Kill a Legend
19 pp · Superhero
Joe Chill (alternate Earth, death)Lieutenant James Gordon (alternate Earth)Barbara Kean (alternate Earth)Lew Moxon (alternate Earth)Bruce Wayne (alternate Earth)Martha Wayne (alternate Earth)Thomas Wayne (alternate Earth)
The "Too Many Cooks..." Caper!
13 pp · Detective-Mystery
Victor Dominion (villain, death)Archie Evergreen (death)
Once Upon a Time...
2 pp · Superhero
The Final Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe!
8 pp · Superhero
Edgar Allan Poe (flashback)Edwin Allman PoheMarcia DouglasSteve Billman
The Strange Death of Doctor Erdel
8 pp · Superhero
Professor Mark Erdel (in flashback)Fred Schneider (cameo, also in flashback)Anna Erdel (in flashback, Prof. Erdel's niece)
What Happens When a Batman Dies?
22 pp · Superhero

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Raw (Fine) $5
CGC 9.8 · 81 in census $132
CGC 9.6 · 88 in census $56
CGC 9.4 · 66 in census $48
CGC 9.2 · 36 in census $25*
CGC 9.0 · 21 in census $24
CGC 8.5 · 9 in census $20*
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CGC 8.0 · 14 in census $20*
CGC 7.5 · 8 in census $20*
CGC 7.0 · 8 in census $20*
CGC 6.5 · 5 in census $20*
CGC 6.0 · 2 in census $20*
CGC 5.5 · 1 in census $20*
CGC 5.0 · 3 in census $20*
CGC 4.5 · 3 in census $20*
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Cast · 24 characters

BatmanCaptain Mark CompassChristopher ChanceCommissioner James GordonDeadmanDick GraysonHawkmanJason BardJoe ChillJ'Onn J'OnzzMartha WayneMystoPow-Wow SmithRalph DibnyRick CarterRoy RaymondShayera ThalShayera Thal / Shiera HallSlam BradleySue DibnyThe Elongated ManThe Human TargetThe Phantom StrangerThomas Wayne

Full credits

writer Paul Levitz
artist, inker Joe Kubert
colorist Tatjana Wood
letterer Adam Kubert
cover pencils, inks Dick Giordano
cover pencils, inks Joe Kubert
cover pencils Carmine Infantino
cover pencils, inks Walter Simonson
cover pencils, inks Tom Yeates
cover pencils, inks José Luis García-López
cover inks Bob Smith

Reprints

Reprinted in Batman Sonderausgabe #1 (1981), Stålmannen #13/1981 (1981), Supermann #11/1981 (1981), Faucon Noir #24 (1982), Batman collection Le Justicier #1 (1982), The Best of DC #23 (1982), Flash #57 (1982), Gigant #4/1983 (1983), Spécial USA #19 (1986), The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[nn] (1988), The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[nn] (1989), The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told #[1] (1989), Batman in the Eighties #[nn] (2004), Batman: Cover to Cover #[nn] (2005), Tales of the Batman: Carmine Infantino #[nn] (2014), Tales of the Batman: Len Wein #[nn] (2015), Tales of the Batman: Alan Brennert #[nn] (2016), Detective Comics: Batman 80th Anniversary Giant #1 (2019), Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman #[nn] (2019), DC Through the '80s: The End of Eras #[nn] (2021), Deadman Omnibus #[nn] (2021)

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