Batman #201
DC Comics
United States
- Published
- May 1968
- Page count
- 36
- Cover price
- 0.12 USD
- Colour
- Colour
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/21839
Credits
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz
Issue contents
Cover
No title recorded
(Batman)
Cover, 1 page
"Don't move Batman-- Our orders are shoot to kill!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Batman
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]
Credits
- Pencils
- Irv Novick
- Inks
- Irv Novick ?
Mike Esposito ? - Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Nick Caputo, however, believes the inks may actually be by Mike Esposito. Lettering credit per Kevin Nowlan (via GCD Main List).
1Featuring
- Feature
- Batman
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Commissioner James Gordon; Alfred Pennyworth; The Joker (villain); The Catwoman [Selina Kyle] (villain); Mad Hatter [Jervis Tetch] (villain); The Penguin [Oswald Cobblepot] (villain); The Cluemaster [Arthur Brown] (villain); Getaway Genius [Roy Reynolds] (villain); Johnny Witts (villain); Mr. Esper (villain); West Coast Crime Syndicate members (villains)
Credits
- Script
- Gardner Fox
- Pencils
- Chic Stone [as Bob Kane]
Joe Certa [as Bob Kane] - Inks
- Joe Giella
- Letters
- Milt Snapinn ?
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
Superman Supacomic (Colour Comics, 1959 series) #114 ([February 1969?]) — Batman's Gangland Guardians
Synopsis
A west coast crime syndicate moves into Gotham City with the intent to eliminate Batman any way they can, while seven of the Caped Crusader's foes join forces to stop them, fearing that they might be next on the syndicate's list.
Notes
Credits for script and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Records show that Bob Kane was paid for the pencils, but Bob Hughes, Gene Reed and other scholars agree that pencils were actually by Stone and Certa.
Across 23 pages, but pages 14 and 23 are 1/2-pages.
2Featuring
- Feature
- Letters to the Batcave
Credits
- Script
- Julie Schwartz ?
- Art
- ? (illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
3"Wow! How did you get that neat spider-web effect on your model?"
Featuring
- Feature
- Cap's Hobby Hints
- Genre
- Children
- Code
- 6617
Credits
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff
- Art
- Henry Boltinoff
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff
Notes
Idea from Mathew Shearer, Ithaca, N.Y.
4Featuring
- Feature
- Direct Currents
Credits
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell ?
- Art
- Joe Kubert
Neal Adams (illustrations) - Letters
- typeset
5Featuring
- Feature
- Letters to the Batcave -- Extra
Credits
- Script
- Julie Schwartz ?
- Letters
- typeset
Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Indicia
The indicia for this issue is not recorded. The identified publisher might be an associated or parent company, rather than the specific listed publisher.