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Issue Details

Issue #421
Published March 1972
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes average # copies per issue, previous year - 199,112.

Cover Details - "Blind Justice -- Blind Fear!"

Characters Batman
Genre superhero
Pencils Neal Adams; Alan Kupperberg (Batman head on the left border)
Inks Dick Giordano
Notes Cover art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Alan Kupperberg revealed in an interview with Daniel Best that he pencilled the Batman head in the left border and that Dick Giordano inked it. The rest of the head shots are stock shots pasted in later. Alan believes the Kupperberg-Giordano Batman head was subsequently used on other covers.

16 page Batman story "Blind Justice...Blind Fear!"

Characters Batman; James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; Warden Howe; Marla Mannning; Carlton Quayle
Genre superhero
Script Frank Robbins
Pencils Frank Robbins
Inks Frank Robbins
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

9 page Batgirl story "Up Against Three Walls!"

Characters Batgirl; James Gordon; Garcia da Vega; Carlos da Vega; Odds Lanyon
Genre superhero
Script Frank Robbins
Pencils Don Heck
Inks Don Heck
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

4 page Alfred story "Police Line-Up!"

Characters Alfred Pennyworth; Batman; Robin
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron ?; Joe Samachson ?
Pencils Jerry Robinson
Inks Jerry Robinson
Reprinted from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #24 August-September 1944

7 page Mysto Magician Detective story "The Riddle of the Doomed Magicians!"

Characters Mysto
Script George Kashdan
Pencils Leonard Starr
Inks Leonard Starr
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #205 March 1954