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Issue Details

Issue #2
Published January 1986
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 1.75 USD
Pages 44
Editing ?

Cover Details - "Two Classic Stories"

Characters Batman; Hugo Strange (background)
Genre superhero
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Marshall Rogers
Colors Marshall Rogers

1 page Cover Gallery cover reprint (on interior page) "Detective Comics #471"

Characters Batman; Hugo Strange
Genre superhero
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Terry Austin
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #471 (August 1977)

17 page Batman story "The Dead Yet Live"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Rupert Thorne; Dr. Phosphorus (flashbck, cameo); Alfred Pennyworth; Silver St. Cloud; Hugo Strange [also as Dr. Todhunter]; Magda
Synopsis Bruce Wayne checks into the private hospital Graytowers to recover from injuries he sustained fighting Dr. Phosphorus, but he soon discovers that Hugo Strange is using the facility to turn the rich and influential patients into his mindless slaves. When Strange sics a venomous snake on Batman, which knocks the hero out, Strange uncovers Batman's secret identity.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Englehart
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Terry Austin
Colors Marshall Rogers
Letters John Workman
Editing Julius Schwartz
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #471 (August 1977) [recolored]

17 page Batman story "I Am the Batman!"

Characters Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Hugo Strange [also as Bruce Wayne; also as Batman]; Magda; Alfred Pennyworth; Silver St. Cloud; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Rupert Thorne; Penguin (cameo); Joker (cameo)
Synopsis Hugo Strange, who has taken over Bruce Wayne's life, offers to sell the Batman's secret identity to the highest bidder. But Boss Thorne doesn't want to play that game, and tries to beat the information out of Strange. Meanwhile, Silver, who suspects something is wrong with "Bruce," summons Dick Grayson, who rescues Batman from Strange's captivity as Robin.
Genre superhero
Script Steve Englehart
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Terry Austin
Colors Marshall Rogers
Letters John Workman
Editing Julius Schwartz
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #472 (September 1977) [recolored]

6 page Tales of the Great Disaster story "A Canterbury Tail"

Characters John B. Temple-Smythe; MacDoogle
Genre war; science fiction
Script Paul Levitz (plot); Jack C. Harris (script)
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Terry Austin
Colors Marshall Rogers
Editing Joe Orlando
Notes Set sometime in the future in Canterbury, a new city 80 kilometers southeast of ancient London, as well as in Glasgow.
Reprinted from Weird War Tales (DC, 1971 series) #51 (March 1977) [recolored]

1 page Cover Gallery cover reprint (on interior page) "Detective Comics #472"

Characters Batman
Genre superhero
Pencils Marshall Rogers
Inks Terry Austin
Reprinted from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #472 (September 1977)