DETECTIVE COMICS #500 [DC COMICS] DIRECT 1981 VF/NM

Series Title: Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)

Issue #: 500 [Direct]

Story Title:

• To Kill a Legend
• The "Too Many Cooks..." Caper!
• Once Upon a Time...
• The Final Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe!
• The Batman Encounters - Gray Face
• The Strange Death of Doctor Erdel
• What Happens When a Batman Dies?

Date of Publication: March 1981

Edition: Direct Edition

Publisher: DC / DC Comics Inc.

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Cover Price: 1.50 USD

Cover Artists: Dick Giordano, Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Walter Simonson, Tom Yeates, José Luis García-López, Bob Smith, Jack Adler, Anthony Tollin

Artists: Dick Giordano, Jim Aparo, Walter Simonson, José Luis García-López, Tom Yeates, Joe Kubert, Carmine Infantino, Bob Smith, Adrienne Roy, Tatjana Wood

Writers: Alan Brennert, Len Wein, Mike W. Barr, Walter Gibson, Paul Levitz, Cary Bates

Characters: Batman (Bruce Wayne), Robin (Dick Grayson), Phantom Stranger, Joe Chill, Thomas Wayne, Martha Wayne, Slam Bradley, Jason Bard, Roy Raymond, Human Target, Mysto, Pow-Wow Smith, Captain Mark Compass, Elongated Man, Sue Dibny, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Martian Manhunter, Deadman, Commissioner James Gordon

First Appearances: Earth-Five Bruce Wayne, Thomas Wayne, Martha Wayne, Lieutenant James Gordon

Key Facts:

• 84-page 500th-issue anniversary giant. Wraparound montage cover by Giordano, Kubert, Infantino, Simonson, Yeates, García-López and Bob Smith. Alan Brennert and Dick Giordano’s “To Kill a Legend,” later in The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told.
• Lead 19-page “To Kill a Legend.” Phantom Stranger sends Batman and Robin to a parallel Earth (fans later call it Earth-Five) twenty years behind, no heroes. Leap days put the Wayne murders on 21 June, not 26. They stop Joe Chill. Young Bruce lives. He starts training, criminology, Holmes. Earth-One Batman still has his dead.
• 13-page Slam Bradley “The ‘Too Many Cooks...’ Caper!” by Len Wein and Jim Aparo. Detective Comics alumni pile in: Bard, Roy Raymond, Human Target, Mysto, Pow-Wow Smith, Captain Compass.
• 2-page “Once Upon a Time...” by Wein and Simonson. Peanuts 1970 text under Batman art.
• 8-page Elongated Man “The Final Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe!” by Mike W. Barr and García-López.
• 8-page text story “The Batman Encounters - Gray Face” by Walter Gibson (the Shadow’s creator), art Tom Yeates.
• 8-page Hawkman “The Strange Death of Doctor Erdel” by Paul Levitz and Joe Kubert. Erdel is the man whose machine brought J’Onn J’Onzz.
• 22-page Batman and Deadman “What Happens When a Batman Dies?” by Cary Bates and Carmine Infantino.
• Full colour throughout.

Page Count: 84 pages

Condition: Please refer to the accompanying photos for condition, we are amateur graders, all best efforts are taken when indicating a likely grade. Should you require further photos, please contact us. Includes archival bag and board.

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