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Catalog ID: 70874

Detective Comics #676 Too Many Ninjas

Detective Comics (1937)

Issue Number: 676
Cover Date: July, 1994

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Nightwing and Robin descend into the Batcave while Batman (Jean Paul Valley) is away. Nightwing is upset that Jean Paul was picked over him to take up the mantle of Batman despite his past mental problems Bruce had assumed he was over. Robin explains Bruce thought Nightwing had moved on. A light appears in a tunnel and Nightwing prepares to battle what he believes to be Jean Paul.

Meanwhile in Gotham, Batman takes on some gun dealers and asks one of them where he can find LeHah. LeHah (or at least a hallucination of him) appears and Batman attempts to attack it while the arms dealer escapes.

Back in the Batcave the man in the tunnel is revealed to be Harold. Harold invites Robin and Nightwing down a shaft where they find his workshop where he has access to Valley's files. Robin finally learns how the new Batman has been getting around- the subway Bat-train.

High above Gotham on the tip of a skyscraper, Bruce Wayne wearing the mask of Tengu, struggles to get the nerve up to make a leap of faith off the building.

Meanwhile Batman tracks down one of the gun dealers who is bound in a dark basement and asks him about LeHah. The dealer assumes he's talking about one of the other dealers and tells him to go look for a guy named Candy in a club. Batman tells the dealer to stay awake or the rats will eat him.

Bruce takes on ninjas sent by Lady Shiva and they back him into a corner. Facing superior numbers he jumps off the side of a bridge, landing on a moving van, and rolls off to face another especially tall ninja master. They battle in traffic, Bruce takes special care not to kill any civilians in the process.

Batman abducts a man from the club that goes by the name Candy and takes him to a gun dealer's apartment. They find the dealer dead in his apartment, Batman suspects LeHah.

Bruce defeats the tall ninja, sending him into the windshield of a moving car, driven by another female ninja specializing in chains. She has Bruce on the ground nearly defeated when her chain gets caught on a moving truck dragging her away. He runs after her to make sure she survived while Lady Shiva looks on and smiles.

Police find the gun dealer that told Batman where to find Candy in the basement, petrified by the rats, screaming.

Back in the Batcave, Batman hallucinates again and sees St. Dumas who tells him that LeHah did not work alone in murdering his father. Robin and Nightwing watch from a monitor, as Valley loses his mind screaming to himself.

Story continued from Batman: Shadow of the Bat #29 Story continues in: Batman : Legends of the Dark Knight #62

Detective Comics (1937)

Publisher: DC Comics

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Detective Comics is a DC Comics monthly American Comic Book published since 1937, focusing on detective stories. One of DC's signature titles; the title featured early talents such as Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Bob Kane, Sheldon Moldoff, Jerry Robinson and Bill Finger. Detective characters, such as Slam Bradley and the Crimson Avenger, were featured monthly in its early days. As of issue # 27, the title became best known for the introduction of the Superhero Detective, The Batman, who eventually became the main feature. The title has also featured the debuts of Dick Grayson, James Gordon and many of Batman's villains and supporting cast, as well as other DC characters.

For Post Flashpoint volume 2, refer to Detective Comics.Origin

Detective Comics was the brainchild of National Allied Publication's owner, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. His first two titles were called New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 and New Comics #1. New Fun, often referred as New Fun Comics #1, was published in February 1935. It became the first comic to contain all-original material, instead of combining newspaper comic strips and the comic-strip style material. New Comics #1, also published in 1935, was retitled twice to become Adventure Comics. Adventure Comics was revived in 2009, by Geof Johns, using Conner Kent's Superboy incarnation as the main story, and the Legion of Superheroes as the back story.

Wheeler-Nicholson, published a third and final title, named Detective Comics. It was scheduled and advertised to be published on December 1936, however, it premiered on March 1937. During that year, he became indebted to Harry Donenfeld, who was a printing-plant and magazine publisher. This forced Wheeler-Nicholson to take Donenfeld on as a partner so that he could publish Detective Comics #1, through a new publishing company, called Detective Comics, Inc. The first owners of Detective Comics, Inc. were Wheeler-Nicholson and Harry Donenfeld's accountant, Larry Liebowitz. Liebowitz and Donenfeld would later force Wheeler-Nicholson out a year later.

Detective Comics #1 featured stories using the hard-boiled detective genre, which was popular around that time. Some of the better known characters in this publication were Slam Bradley, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster before they created the Superman character, Ching Lung, an asian character who was a villain; and Speed Saunders along with other characters. The debut cover was created by Vin Sullivan, who was the publication's first editor.

Issue #27 of Detective Comics is historically famous because this was the first appearance of Batman, then known as "The Bat-Man", as a comic book character. This issue was published in May 1939. Batman (created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger), will later become the star of the publication. His sidekick, Robin (created by Jerry Robinson), was introduced in issue #38, published in 1940. The publication also had several back stories, including "The Strange Experiment of Dr. Erdell", featured in issue #225, which introduced Martian Manhunter as a character.

In the 1970s and the early part of the 1980s, the publication showed an expanded format which featured solo adventures of some members of the Batman Family like "Robin: The Teen Wonder" and "Batgirl". It also featured "Tales of Gotham City", which told stories of the ordinary citizens of the famous fictional city. Due to the declining sales of Detective Comics in this period, DC was heavily considering canceling its namesake franchise in place of the much more popular Batman Family in a wave of cancellations called the DC Implosion. However, over the protestations of the comic creators, this series was saved and the other was merged into this one, which resulted in a format change for the series from issue #481 onwards.

In Bruce Wayne's absence, Batwoman was featured in Detective comics between issues #854-863. Currently, the book stars Dick Grayson as Batman, as well as Commissioner James Gordon.

Collected EditionsClassic Batman and ArchivedBatman: A Celebration of 75 Years (#27, 83, 211, 216, 327, 359, 395, 442, 474, 574, 633, 711, 757 and 821)Issues #27-50 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 1.Issues #51-70 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 2.The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years (#64, 168, 180, 475, 476, 726, 741, 826)Batman Arkham: Two-Face (#66, 68, 80 & 513)Issues #71-86 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 3.Boy Commandos by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby Volume Two (#74-83 & 85)Issues #87-102 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 4.Issues #103-119 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 5.Issues #120-135 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 6.Issues #136-154 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 7.Batman: The TV Stories (#140, 230, 341, 346, 359)Batman: Arkham - The Riddler (#140, 142, 377, 822 & 837)Batman: The Dynamic Duo Archives, Vol. 1 (#327-333)Batman: The Dynamic Duo Archives, Vol. 2 (#334-339)

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Detective Comics #676 Too Many Ninjas

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Detective Comics (1937)

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