Trivia / Detective Comics

• Milestone Celebration:
  • Detective Comics #387 celebrated 30 years since Batman's first appearance, and contained a Setting Update retelling of his first published adventure, "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate", as well as a reprint of the original version.
  • Detective Comics #500 was an 84-page special issue led off by "To Kill a Legend", a classic story in which Batman is given the opportunity to save his parents in an Alternate Universe — but must first face the question of whether it's right to deprive that universe of all the good Batman will do — and also featuring "The 'Too Many Cooks' Caper", a team-up of a bunch of DC's non-superhero detective characters, including Slam Bradley from the early days of Detective Comics itself.
  • Detective Comics #526 celebrated Batman's 500th appearance in the title, and marked the end of the Gerry Conway run that had dominated both Batman and Detective for about three-and-a-half years. It featured the Joker gathering a Legion of Doom to kill Batman before newcomer Killer Croc could, while doubling as Jason Todd's (first) origin.
  • Detective Comics #627 was technically Batman's 601st appearance in Detective, but the numbering was apparently too appealing to pass up. This one contained four different takes on "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate": the original, the 30th-anniversary retelling from #387, and two new riffs by the then-current creative teams of Detective and Batman.
  • Detective Comics Vol. 2 #27, a 85-page short story anthology issue featuring, among other things, another remake of the original Detective Comics Vol. 1 #27 that introduced Batman to the world, the first part of the Gothtopia story arc, and the launch of the year-long weekly series Batman Eternal.

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