Detective Comics #495 (1980) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Series: Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series)
Issue: #495
Publication date: October 1980
Key date: 1980-10-00
On-sale date: 1980
Indicia publisher: DC Comics Inc.
Price: $1.00
Pages: 68
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Jim Aparo; inks: Jim Aparo; colors: Tatjana Wood; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Sterling Silversmith; Robin [Dick Grayson] (head shot); Batgirl [Barbara Gordon] (head shot); Black Lightning [Jefferson Pierce] (head shot)
1	Murder in Quicksilver	comic story	17	script: Michael Fleisher; pencils: Don Newton; inks: Frank Chiaramonte; colors: Adrienne Roy; letters: John Workman	Batman [Bruce Wayne]; The Crime Doctor [Dr. Bradford Thorne] (villain); Sterling Silversmith; Frenchy; Elmo Kraft (death)
2	Volume 80 Issue 22 - October, 1980	in-house column	1.83	letters: typeset	New Teen Titans
3	#65 Vince Colletta	in-house column	0.34	script: Mike W. Barr
4	Planet Puzzle	activity	0.66	letters: typeset
5	-	comic story	0.17	script: Fred Hembeck; pencils: Fred Hembeck; inks: Fred Hembeck	Krypto
7	Into the Fire!	comic story	4	script: Bob Rozakis; pencils: Dan Spiegle; inks: Dan Spiegle; colors: Adrienne Roy; letters: Ben Oda
8	Batman Then & Now	text article	1	script: Mike W. Barr; pencils: Bob Kane, Jim Aparo, Sheldon Moldoff, Carmine Infantino, Neal Adams	Batman; Joker; Robin [Dick Grayson]
9	Bossman's Bane!	comic story	10	script: Cary Burkett; pencils: José Delbo; inks: Frank Chiaramonte; colors: Gene D'Angelo; letters: Ben Oda	Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Commissioner James Gordon; Richard Bender; Robert "Bob" Barton; Norman "Shades" Cosgrove; Ray Beeler
10	-	letters page	2	script: Paul Levitz
11	Animals	comic story	12	script: J. M. DeMatteis; pencils: Gérald Forton; inks: Gérald Forton; colors: Bob LeRose; letters: Albert De Guzman	Black Lightning [Jefferson Pierce]; Lynn Stewart; Jimmy Olsen; Inspector William Henderson; "Ice" (introduction, villain); Duke Street Kings (introduction, villains)
12	The Gotham Connection	comic story	8	script: Jack C. Harris; pencils: Charles Nicholas; inks: Vince Colletta; colors: Gene D'Angelo; letters: Todd Klein	Robin [Dick Grayson]; Jennifer Anne; Chief Frank McDonald; Professor Klein

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

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Edition	How to tell
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