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DETECTIVE COMICS #572
March 1987 [$1.25]

Cover Credit: Klaus Janson (pencils, inks; signed)

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Story: "The Doomsday Book" (54 Pages)

Credits:

Mike W.Barr (plot, script)
Alan Davis (pencils, inks - Chapter 1; pencils - Chapter 5)
Terry Beatty (pencils - Chapter 2)
Dick Giordano (inks - Chapter 2)
Carmine Infantino (pencils - Chapter 3)
Al Vey (inks - Chapter 3)
E.R. Cruz (pencils, inks - Chapter 4)
Paul Neary (inks - Chapter 5)
John Workman (letters - Chapters 1 and 5)
Todd Klein (letters - Chapters 2 and 3)
Romeo Francisco (letters - Chapter 4)
Adrienne Roy (colors - Chapters 1, 4 and 5)
Carl Gafford (colors - Chapters 2 and 3)
Dennis O'Neil (edits)

Feature Character:

Batman (next in New Teen Titans Vol. 2 #29)

Guest Stars:

Sherlock Holmes (also in flashback to December 1886)
Elongated Man (last in Justice League of America #258; next in Adventures of Superman #442)
Slam Bradley (between issues #500 and #759)

Supporting Characters:

Robin II (next in New Teen Titans Vol. 2 #28)
Dr Watson
Inspector Lestrade (both in flashback to 1886)

Villains:

Professor Moriarty (behind the scenes in 1886)
Edgar Moriarty
Brendan (one of Edgar Moriarty's henchmen)
Inspector Foxborough (corrupt English policeman)
Patricia Brewster (in flashback to 1886, one of Moriarty's agents)

Other Characters:

Bruno (a waiter)
Thomas Morgan (a.k.a. Thomas Moriarty)
Mary Watson
Richard Waid (curator of the Sherlock Holmes Museum in London)
Dr Nigel Brewster (in flashback to 1886)
Queen Elizabeth II of England

Comment: The oft-mentioned flashback to 1886 above is an 'untold tale' of Sherlock Holmes entitled "The Adventure of the Red Leech"

Synopsis:

Batman, Robin, Slam Bradley and Elongated Man all become involved in the same case, arriving through various different angles. It seems that the great-grandnephew of Holmes' infamous opponent Professor Moriarty has chosen to revisit, and vastly improve upon, his relative's greatest failure. He will assassinate the Queen of England 100 years to the day since the first Moriarty failed to get rid of Queen Victoria. Aided by Dr Watson's granddaughter, the detectives are able to rescue Queen Elizabeth from an exploding replica of the Domesday book. They are also given a surprise assist by Sherlock Holmes himself who was remained alive thanks to an excellent diet and the pure air of the Tibetan mountains. Holmes gives his blessing to his friend's granddaughter, and to her fiancé, another descendant of Moriarty, but one who has not inherited the strain of evil.

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