(July 1980)
DC,
1980 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1980-04-22
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893117707
- Editing
- Paul Levitz (credited); Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #178.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Batman / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- José Luis García-López (signed)
- Inks
- José Luis García-López (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-320
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman; Riddler; Penguin; Joker
- Reprints
-
in Batman - Serie Avestruz (Editorial Novaro, 1981 series) #6 -
in The Untold Legend of the Batman [MPI Audio Edition] (DC, 1989 series) #1 -
in Die großen Superhelden (Egmont Ehapa, 1981 series) #2 - Die Legende von Batman (1981) -
in The Untold Legend of the Batman (K. G. Murray, 1982 ? series) (1982) -
in Super-Heróis (Agência Portuguesa de Revistas, 1982 series) #6 (1 de Maio de 1983) - in The Untold Legend of the Batman [Batman Cereal Edition] (DC, 1989 series) #1 ([1989])
- in The Untold Legend of Batman (Shan-Lon Enterprises, 1989 series) #1 (June 1989)
- in Tales of the Batman: Len Wein (DC, 2014 series) (2014 [February 2015])
-
in Récit Complet Batman (Urban Comics, 2017 series) #6 - Batman : La légende secrète (avril 2018)
-
In the Beginning
Batman / comic story / 21 pages
- Job Number
- J-6567
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne; also as Robin]; Robin; Alfred Pennyworth; Thomas Wayne (flashback); Martha Wayne (flashback); Lew Moxon; Commissioner James Gordon; Joe Chill; Leslie Thompkins (cameo); Philip Wayne; Mrs. Chilton; Harvey Harris; Amos Rexford; Clayface [Preston Payne]; Crazy-Quilt; Ra's al Ghul; Killer Moth; Tweedledum; Tweedledee; Two-Face; Scarecrow; Riddler; Penguin; Joker; Dr. Phosphorous; Mad Hatter; Catwoman; Spook; Hugo Strange; Calendar Man; Mr. Freeze; Clayface [Matt Hagen]; Poison Ivy; Gentleman Ghost; Sensei; Signalman
- Synopsis
- After he receives in the mail the remnants of the Batman costume his father once wore and discovers its empty display case adorned with a threatening note, the Caped Crusader recalls the events that led to his becoming Batman and his earliest cases where he met James Gordon and brought the people responsible for his parents' deaths to justice.
- Reprints
- in The Untold Legend of the Batman [MPI Audio Edition] (DC, 1989 series) #1
-
in Batman Classics (Classics/Williams, 1970 series) #130 (1981) - in Die großen Superhelden (Egmont Ehapa, 1981 series) #2 - Die Legende von Batman (1981)
-
in Läderlappen (Semic, 1976 series) #2/1981 (Februari 1981) -
in Lynvingen (Semic, 1977 series) #2/1981 (uke 10 1981) - in The Untold Legend of the Batman (K. G. Murray, 1982 ? series) (1982)
- in Super-Heróis (Agência Portuguesa de Revistas, 1982 series) #6 (1 de Maio de 1983)
- in Batman (Juniorpress, 1984 series) #0 (1984)
-
in Batman Monthly (Egmont UK, 1988 series) #1 (1988) - in The Untold Legend of the Batman [Batman Cereal Edition] (DC, 1989 series) #1 ([1989])
- in Tales of the Batman: Len Wein (DC, 2014 series) (2014 [February 2015])
- in Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo (DC, 2012 series) #3 ([November] 2017)
- in Récit Complet Batman (Urban Comics, 2017 series) #6 - Batman : La légende secrète (avril 2018), #6 - Batman : La légende secrète (avril 2018) [page 13 partially]
-
Indexer Notes
This is John Byrne's first work for DC Comics.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Batman -
1.
In the Beginning
Batman -
2.
A Flash in the Dam
The Flash; Hostess Twinkies
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Steve Jenner
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- James Zieff
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