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Detective Comics #400 (1970) · The Collector

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Detective Comics (1937)
#400

DC Comics#400

Detective Comics

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Detective Comics #400

Challenge of the Man-Bat / A Burial for Batgirl!

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: June 1970
On sale: Apr 30, 1970
Cover price: $0.15
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Credits

Writers: Frank Robbins, Denny O'Neil
Pencillers: Neal Adams, Gil Kane
Inkers: Dick Giordano, Vince Colletta
Letterers: John Costanza, Milt Snapinn

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Grand Comics Database issue 23543

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Barbara Gordon has come to Hudson University to help with a Edgar Allan Poe festival. She discovers a murder and captures Hank Osher, who appears to be the murderer. Batgirl begins to believe that Hank has been framed and investigates further, which leads to her being captured and bricked into a wall.

Cover

Neal Adams

Editor

Julius Schwartz

Cover letters

Gaspar Saladino

Characters

Alfred Pennyworth
Amos Willard
Batgirl
Batman
Hank Osher
Jack Markham
Man-Bat
Professor Huntington
Robin
the Blackout Gang

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