Detective Comics #496 (1980) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Murder on the Mystery Ship!	cover	1	pencils: Jim Aparo; inks: Jim Aparo; colors: Tatjana Wood; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Clayface [Basil Karlo]; Batgirl [Barbara Gordon] (head shot)
1	Murder on the Mystery Ship!	comic story	15.67	script: Michael Fleisher; pencils: Don Newton; inks: Dan Adkins; colors: Adrienne Roy; letters: Milt Snapinn	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Clayface [Basil Karlo] (apparent death); Commissioner James Gordon; John Carlinger; Myrna Gentry; Nurse Jacobs (death); Rita Morgansen; Bill Motherwell; Stacy Darnell
3	Batcave	letters page	0.33	script: Paul Levitz
4	Stealer of Souls!	comic story	10	script: Cary Burkett; pencils: José Delbo; inks: Bob Smith; colors: Gene D'Angelo; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Dr. Voodoo; Jim Dover; Tracy Dover; Assistant District Attorney Charles Turner; Detective Cameron; Jeff Cotton

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 0709893046511
British	price 0.15 GBP

Collection	Year
Tales of the Batman: Don Newton #[nn] ISBN 978-1-4012-3294-8	2012	On eBay ›
Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo #3 ISBN 978-1-4012-7161-9	2017	On eBay ›
Batgirl: The Bronze Age Omnibus #2 ISBN 978-1-4012-8841-9	2019	On eBay ›

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