Detective Comics, #492

Published: July 1980

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Detective Comics #492

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Issue Contents:
The End of Batgirl!
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
Credits
Story Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

Vengeance Trail
Story 1 15 pages superhero
Storyline

After General Scarr's henchman, Cormorant, almost kills Batgirl, Batman goes after the crime boss but is captured.

Characters
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • Alfred Pennyworth
  • Commissioner Gordon
  • Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]
  • Cormorant
  • General Scarr
Story Notes

Crossover with Batgirl, story continues from last issue's Batgirl story, concludes in Batgirl story in this issue.

Chapter Two... At War with General Scarr
Story 2 10 pages superhero
Storyline

Batgirl saves Batman from General Scarr and Cormorant, and regains her belief in herself.

Characters
  • Batgirl [Barbara Gordon]
  • Batman [Bruce Wayne]
  • General Scarr
  • Commissioner Gordon
  • Cormorant
Credits
Story Notes

Crossover with Batman, story continues from Batman story this issue.

A Flash in the Dam
Story 3 1 page superhero
Characters
  • Flash [Barry Allen]
  • The Destroyer
Credits
Fifty Million Tons of Soul!
Story 4 9 pages drama
Storyline

"Rusty" Krebs spends his life painting the Gotham Memorial Bridge. One day he stops a jumper and then helps stop a gang of bank robbers.

Characters
  • "Rusty" Krebs
  • Linda
  • David
  • Nickels (Bank Robber)
  • Carleton Wainwright
Credits
We Are Experiencing a Slight Delay...
Story 5 9 pages superhero
Storyline

Man-Bat saves a subway train stuck in a tunnel and menaced by a giant rat.

Characters
The First Bird
Story 6 8 pages superhero
Storyline

Robin stops Penguin from stealing a Pterodactyl egg.

Characters
  • Robin [Dick Grayson]
  • Jennifer Anne
  • Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot]
  • Kenny
  • Doris Dexter
  • Mr. Myers (the man in black)
Story Notes

The man in black is identified as Mr. Myers in Detective Comics #493.

Story 7 2 pages
Credits
Story Notes

Letters of comment from Kent A. Phenis, Matt Kurtz, Neil Ahlquist and Chris Khalaf.