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Detective Comics 613

DETECTIVE COMICS #613

Cover Date: April 1990
Cover Price: $1.00

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Cover Credits:
Art: Norm Breyfogle (signed)


Story: "Trash" (22 Pages)

Credits:

StoryAlan Grant
PencilsNorm Breyfogle
InksSteve Mitchell
ColorsAdrienne Roy
LetteringTodd Klein
Associate editingDan Raspler
EditingDennis O'Neil

Feature Character(s):

Batman

Supporting Character(s):

Vicki Vale (in between Batman Vol. 1 #447 and #450)
Alfred Pennyworth (last in Batman Vol. 1 #445; next in Suicide Squad Vol. 1 #40)

Villain(s):

Tony Kruden (dies)
employees of Krudco (Kruden's company, corporate trash collectors)

Other Character(s):

Mike Dell (first appearance; grade 8 schoolboy, dies)
Harvey Dell (first appearance; his father, a trash collector and owner of Dell's Dispo)
Jane Dell (first appearance; Harvey's wife/Mike's mother)
Roy (first appearance; an employee of Dell's Dispo)
Chally (first appearance; an employee of Dell's Dispo)

Story Reprinted in:

DC Retroactive: Batman - The '90s #1 (October 2011)

Synopsis:

Bruce Wayne has a date with Vicki Vale and watches a confrontation between Krudco, a trash firm with mob backing, and Harv Dell, an independent trash collector. That night, as Batman, he witnesses another confrontation, in which Dell's 13-year-old son is shot by one of Tony Kruden's men, and Kruden himself is killed when he falls into a trash compactor.


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