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Publisher: DC

Title: Detective Comics
Issue: 498
Page Count: 40
Publish Date: January 1981
Volume: 45

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Detective Comics #498
Owner: Par2ch

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Story Title: Blockbuster's Back in Town! - cover
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Blockbuster [Mark Desmond]; Batgirl [Barbara Gordon] (head shot)


Story Title: Night of the Savage - comic story
Pages:17
Genre:superhero
Characters:Blockbuster [Mark Desmond] (villain); Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Commissioner James Gordon; Sharon (Commissioner Gordon's secretary); Hawkins; Lou; Ernie; Willie Macon; Mickey (thug); Willie Macon's wife; Ajax (villain); Roger Harp (news anchor, image on TV); 'Boss' Dooley; Dooley's men
Synopsis:Blockbuster, after being presumed drowned in Gotham Harbor, washes ashore near a small West Virginia town, where he befriended by a local miner. When Batman travels to there to investigates a Blockbuster sighting, the local union boss assumes Batman is there to investigate his criminal activities and takes steps to eliminate him.


Story Title: The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat - comics-form advertising
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Characters:Flash [Barry Allen]; Bureauc-Rat
Synopsis:The Flash stops the Bureauc-Rat and his Red-Tape gun with a hostess fruit pie.


Story Title: The Tightening Web! - comic story
Pages:8
Genre:superhero
Characters:Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]; Commissioner James Gordon; Robert "Bob" Barton; Richard Bender; Jeff Cotton; Jim Dover; Assistant District Attorney Charles Turner; Randall F. Borowitz; Doreen Gray
Synopsis:With Barbara charged with murder, and new evidence continuing to pile up against her, Batgirl must investigate to find out who is framing her.


Story Title: [ no title ] - letters page
Features:Batcave
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


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