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Detective Comics #587 (1988) · The Collector

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Detective Comics (1937)
#587

DC Comics#587

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Detective Comics #587

Night People

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: June 1988
On sale: Mar 8, 1988
Cover price: $0.75
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Printing not stated · $0.75
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Grand Comics Database issue 44601

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After midnight in Gotham, D.J. Dark hosts his nightly radio show, a hobo is killed, Batman pursues a cocaine smuggler, and police track a murderer, Deke Mitchel, who escaped from prison and is seeking someone named Kadaver. Mitchel hides from the police amongst hazardous waste, which ignites and explodes due to a random lightning strike. Mitchel is presumed dead...

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Printing not stated · $0.75

Credits

Writer: Alan Grant
Penciller: Norm Breyfogle
Inker: Norm Breyfogle
Colorist: Adrienne Roy
Letterer: Todd Klein
Cover: Norm Breyfogle
Cover colors: Anthony Tollin
Editor: Denny O'Neil
Assistant: Dan Raspler

Characters

Babette
Bannen
Batman
Billy
D.J. Dark
Floyd
Harlan Woolf
Legs
Michael Rossi
The Corrosive Man
unnamed female police officer
Willy

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