Detective Comics #500 cover by Walt Simonson, Joe Kubert, Tom Yeates, José Luis García-López, Jim Ap

Detective Comics #500 cover by Walt Simonson, Joe Kubert, Tom Yeates, José Luis García-López, Jim Aparo, Dick Giordano, Bob Smith.With the upcoming release of Detective #1000, I went back to read this previous landmark issue for the first time since its release in… 1981??!? Oof.What a fun grab bag of stories this is! Alan Brennert (totally underrated comics writer) & Giordano:Len Wein & Aparo, with a crew of every lawman who had appeared in the series (still the only Pow Wow Smith story I’ve ever read):Mike W. Barr & García-López, maybe the best art ever in an Elongated Man story:Paul Levitz & Joe Kubert. What more needs to be said?Cary Bates, Carmine Infantino & Bob Smith. This wasn’t Infantino in his prime, obviously, but still fun to get echoes of the 1960s “new look” Batman:Finally, here’s the full wraparound art jam cover: -- source link

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