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Detective Comics#494
Cover: Jim Aparo
Detective Comics #494
“The Crime Doctor Calls at Midnight!”
writer J. M. DeMatteis · artist, inker Gérald Forton · colorist Gene D'Angelo · letterer Ben Oda · cover Jim Aparo
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Full credits
writer J. M. DeMatteis
artist, inker Gérald Forton
colorist Gene D'Angelo
letterer Ben Oda
cover pencils, inks Jim Aparo
Full plot ⚠ may contain spoilers
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Black Lightning stops the Slime Killer, a masked vigilante killing criminals in Suicide Slum who happens to be the father of one of his students, Jonathan Davis.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).