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| Issue |
Detective 627 |
| Subtitle |
The Case of the
Chemical Syndicate (4 takes on the first ever Batman story: the
original, the thirtieth anniversary edition, and two new versions) |
| Date |
March 1991 |
| Writer(s) |
version
1: Rob't Kane
version 2: Mike
Friedrich version
3: Marv Wolfman
version
4: Alan Grant |
| Artist(s) |
version
1: Rob't Kane version
2: Bob Brown,
Joe Giella version
3: Jim Aparo,
Mike DeCarlo version
4: Norm Breyfogle, Steve
Mitchell |
| storyline |
version
1: Batman
stopped a killer who was attempting to take over a chemical
company by killing off his partners / co-owners.
version 2: Batman
and Robin tracked down a killer who took down two chemists working
on war technologies. It turned out to be a member of the team
trying to get sole ownership of their discovery.
version 3: Batman
showed up on the scene after a chemical plant big-shot was killed.
The man was melted into his taxi by someone spraying toxic waste.
A second was killed along with his wife and some innocents by this
new villain, Pesticyde. Batman found out the third of the four
owners was crippled from an accident at the plant. He stopped the
man's daughter before she could kill her father's last living
partner.
version 4:
Batman and Gordon investigated when a top chemist was found dead.
Batman witnessed a second one die and caught the killers. They'd
been hired by the partner of the two dead men. Gordon found the
third hanged with a note. Batman knew it was no suicide - the real
killer attacked and fell into a vat of chemicals and died. |
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