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Issue Details

Issue #240
Published March 1972
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes average # of copies sold previous year - 244,488.

Cover Details - "untitled"

Characters Batman; Mason Sterling
Genre superhero
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Dick Giordano
Notes Cover art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics

17 page Batman story "Vengeance for a Dead Man!"

Characters Ra's Al Ghul; Talia; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; James Gordon; Mason Sterling (Death); Flinky Davenport; Dr. Moon; Alfred Pennyworth; Mr. Keener
Synopsis Batman and Talia track down the killer of Mason Sterling and Batman discovers who removed Sterling's brain.
Genre superhero
Script Denny O'Neil
Pencils Irv Novick
Inks Dick Giordano
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) #1; in Batman: Tales of the Demon (DC, 1991 series) #nn

9 page Robin story "Theater of the Mind!"

Characters Robin; Alan Weiss; Gerry; Bernie Wrightson; Rick Asher; Terri Bergstrom; Gordon Asher; Burton Asher
Genre superhero
Script Mike Friedrich
Pencils Rich Buckler
Inks Rich Buckler
Notes 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

11 page Batman story "Batman's Great Face-Saving Feat!"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Mystery Analysts of Gotham City [Prof. Ralph Vern; Art Saddows; Kaye Daye; Commissioner James Gordon] (intro); Hugh Rankin; The Trapeze Ten (flashback)
Genre superhero
Script France Herron
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff [ghost for Bob Kane]
Inks Joe Giella
Notes The credits in this reprint say that Bob Kane pencilled this story, and that matches Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. However, it is known that Bob Kane contracted the artwork out to Sheldon Moldoff. Other credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records.
Reprinted from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #164 (June 1964)

1 page Letters to the Batman letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Includes a letter from Bob Rozakis