Detective Comics #409

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DC ⋅ 1971
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Issue Details

Publisher

DC

Writer

Frank Robbins

Penciler

Bob Brown

Penciler

Don Heck

Inker

Dick Giordano

Inker

Frank Giacoia

Cover Artist

Neal Adams

Published

March 1971

Synopsis

MAN IN THE ETERNAL MASK! Batman and an artist must discover the identity of a mysterious mutilator of the artist's portraits. Eventually, the criminal reveals himself as a former client of the artist, who was disfigured in an accident from which he blames the artist. The criminal wants to kill the artist, but he is saved by Batman, although he was unable to save the criminal himself. NIGHT OF THE SHARP HORNS! Barbara Gordon was in Madrid, Spain, to collect a rare manuscript for Gotham Library when she suddenly found herself caught up in a murder mystery involving an aging bull fighters lost bull. Suspecting bull fighter El Grandos, a young bullfighter named Paco, or the grounds keeper Manolo as potential suspected, Batgirl sets out to search for clue and stop the "Phantom Bullfighter" from striking again the next night.  As expected, that night the mysterious bullfighter returns once again. After mistakenly attacking Paco, Batgirl soon finds the real Phantom Bullfighter and engages in battle against him. Quickly defeating the Phantom, he is unmasked and revealed to be Manolo. Confronted by El Grandos, Manolo explains that he was killing the bulls in the hopes that his master would no longer put himself at risk bull fighting. With everything straightened out, Batgirl fades into the night, leaving the two to wonder who she really was.

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