The Brave and the Bold #178 (1981) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Paperchase	cover	1	pencils: Rich Buckler; inks: Dick Giordano; colors: Tatjana Wood; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Batman; The Creeper
1	Paperchase	comic story	17	script: Alan Brennert; pencils: Jim Aparo; inks: Jim Aparo; colors: Adrienne Roy; letters: Jim Aparo	Batman; Creeper; Hugo Marlies; Dr. Clayton Wetley; Vera Sweet
3	The Bitter Choice!	comic story	8	script: Cary Burkett; pencils: Dan Spiegle; inks: Dan Spiegle; colors: Carl Gafford; letters: John Costanza	Nemesis; Samuel Solomon; The Council; Valerie Foxworth; Jay Kingston
4	-	letters page	0.5	script: Dick Giordano

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 0709892044009
British	price 0.15 GBP

Collection	Year
The Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told #[nn] ISBN 0-930289-51-X	1989	On eBay ›
The Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told #[nn] ISBN 0930289617	1990	On eBay ›
Tales of the Batman: Alan Brennert #[nn] ISBN 978-1401263492	2016	On eBay ›
Legends of the Dark Knight: Jim Aparo #3 ISBN 978-1-4012-7161-9	2017	On eBay ›
Batman: The Brave and the Bold - The Bronze Age Omnibus #3 ISBN 978-1-4012-9282-9	2021	On eBay ›

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