Volume

42

Price

0.50 USD

Pages

36

Indicia Frequency

monthly

On-sale Date

1981-04-14

Publisher's Age Guidelines

Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Indicia / Colophon Publisher

DC Comics Inc.

Brand

DC [bullet]

Editing

Dick Giordano (editor); Cary Burkett (associate editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

This Sporting Death!

Batman / cover / 1 page(report information)

Pencils

Jim Aparo (signed)

Inks

Jim Aparo (signed)

Colors

Tatjana Wood

Letters

?

Job Number

C-635

Genre

superhero

Characters

Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Sportsman [Martin Mantle]

Indexer Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

This Sporting Death!

Batman / comic story / 17 pages

Script

Gerry Conway (script); Roy Thomas (plot assist)

Pencils

Irv Novick

Inks

Frank McLaughlin

Colors

Adrienne Roy

Letters

John Costanza

Genre

superhero

Characters

Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Sportsman [Martin Mantle] (villain, origin); Hank Klugmuun (death); Commissioner James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; Pierre Foote (death); Martin Mantle Sr. (flashback); Louisa Mantle (flashback)

Synopsis

Batman investigates the death of several sports figures, and finds that it is the work of a new villain, The Sportsman.

Superman vs. the Laughing Gas Bandits /

Hostess Fruit Pies; Superman / comics-form advertising / 1 page

Murder on the Midway, Part Two: Killer Under the Big Top!

Robin / comic story / 8 pages

Script

Gerry Conway

Pencils

Don Newton

Inks

Steve Mitchell

Colors

Adrienne Roy

Letters

Pierre Bernard Jr.

Genre

superhero

Characters

Robin [Dick Grayson]; Lorna Hill [as Lourna Hill]; Jo-Jo Jones (Flashback); Waldo Flynn (Flashback); Magnificent Melanie; Tiny; Vashnu

Synopsis

At the circus, Robin investigates to determine who killed Jo-Jo Jones.

Keywords

Hill's Circus

Indexer Notes

Story continues from Batman #337.

Credits illegibly muddy on the tentpole on the splash page in this printing, but legible in reprint in Batman Taschenbuch reprint.

Lorna Hill is misspelled here as Lourna Hill.

[no title indexed]

Bat-Signals / letters page / 1 page

Script

Dick Giordano

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

L-820

Indexer Notes

Letters of comment from David F. Mickus, Steve Thompson, Jeffrey Lowndes and Bill Norton.