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Issue Details

Issue #235
Published September 1971
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Julius Schwartz

Cover Details

Characters Batman; Talia
Genre superhero
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Dick Giordano
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007]

15 page Batman story "Swamp Sinister"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Ra's Al Ghul (Villain); Talia (Villain); Alfred Pennyworth; Solomon T. London; Striss (Ra's Al Ghul technician) (Death); Polard (Ra's Al Ghul technician) (Death)
Synopsis Ra's Al Ghul forces Batman to track down Striss, who has stolen a secret formula from Ra's. Striss does not know the deadly secret of the chemical formula.
Genre superhero
Script Denny O'Neil
Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Dick Giordano
Letters John Costanza
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Reprinted in Saga of Ra's Al Ghul, The (DC, 1988 series) #2; in Batman: Tales of the Demon (DC, 1991 series) #nn

7 page Robin story "The Outcast Society"

Characters Robin; Nanci Beeker; Pat Whalon; Terri Bergstrom
Genre superhero
Script Mike Friedrich
Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Dick Giordano
Notes Story continued in Batman #236. Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics [May 2008].
Reprinted in Showcase Presents: Robin The Boy Wonder (DC, 2008 series) #1

14 page Batman story "Castle with Wall-to-Wall Danger!"

Characters Batman; Robin; James Gordon; Albert Maunch; Frank Pragnel
Genre superhero
Script John Broome
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Joe Giella
Reprinted from Detective Comics #329 (July 1964)

1 page Letters to the Batman letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Incldues letters from Frank Robbins, Bob Rozakis, and Dave Sim