Detective Comics, #587 Canadian
Published: June 1988
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Issue Contents:
Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Credits
- Pencils: Norm Breyfogle
- Inks: Norm Breyfogle
- Colors: Anthony Tollin
Story Notes
Color credits confirmed by Anthony Tollin.
Night People
Storyline
After midnight in Gotham, D.J. Dark hosts his nightly radio show, a hobo is killed, Batman pursues a cocaine smuggler, and police track a murderer, Deke Mitchel, who escaped from prison and is seeking someone named Kadaver. Mitchel hides from the police amongst hazardous waste, which ignites and explodes due to a random lightning strike. Mitchel is presumed dead...
Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
- D.J. Dark (radio DJ)
- Michael Rossi (hobo, death)
- Billy (hobo)
- Legs (hobo)
- The Corrosive Man [Derek "Deke" Mitchel] (introduction, villain, prison escapee, murderer)
- Willy (police officer)
- unnamed female police officer
- Harlan Woolf (cocaine smuggler)
- Bannen (Woolf's associate)
- Floyd (Woolf's associate)
- Babette (radio newscaster)
Credits
- Script: Alan Grant
- Pencils: Norm Breyfogle
- Inks: Norm Breyfogle
- Colors: Adrienne Roy
- Letters: Todd Klein
Story Notes
John Wagner credited with co-scripting, but not actually involved with this issue according to Alan Grant. Mitchel is transformed into the Corrosive Man by the explosion at the end of the story, but is not actually referred to as the Corrosive Man until the next issue.
Credits
- Script: Dan Raspler
- Pencils: José Luis García-López
Story Notes
Letters of comment from Chris Shields, Chris Khalaf, Bill Schietroma, Chris Romano and Dorman Earl A. Larr.