Comic Title: Detective Comics #589
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: August 1988
On Sale Date: May 3, 1988 Shipping Date May 3, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #3

Shipping Date May 3, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #138

Newsstand Date May 26, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #138

Copyright Date May 3, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date May 3, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #754, #756

Newsstand Date May 17, 1988
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #754, #756

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 48
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Notes:
Contains Bonus Book #5

Title: "The Burning Pit"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: Alan Grant
Writer: John Wagner
Artist: Norm Breyfogle
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Legends of the Dark Knight:Norm Breyfogle Vol. 1 HC (2015)
Batman:The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 2 TPB (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Detective Comics #588; next appearance in Batman #421)

Villain(s)

• Kadaver (last appearance in Detective Comics #588; next appearance in Detective Comics #610)
• Corrosive Man (last appearance in Detective Comics #588; next appearance in Batman:Shadow of the Bat #25)
• Webley (last appearance in Detective Comics #588; no further appearances)
• Phil Hobart (heir to the Walls fortune; no further appearances)
• Harlan Woolf (dies in this story; last appearance in Detective Comics #587; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• D.J. Dark (last appearance in Detective Comics #588; no further appearances)
• Dalton Walls (dies in this story; last appearance in Detective Comics #588; no further appearances)
• A group of homeless men (Legs named; last appearance in Detective Comics #588; next appearance in Batman #455)
• Babette (last appearance in Detective Comics #587; no further appearances)

Comments:
Night People:Part Three

This story is continued from Detective Comics #588.

Synopsis:
Batman escorts Webley back to the home of Kadaver who is in the process of terrorizing the man who paid him to kill Dalton Walls. When Batman arrives Kadaver tries to fight him, but he ends up hanging over a pit of limestone. Then the Corrosive Man arrives. He blames Kadaver for spending years in prison because he believes that Kadaver gave the police the evidence used to capture and convict him.

Batman fights the Corrosive Man, but is unable to prevent him from touching Kadaver. Mitchel's touch burns Kadaver's arm and face. Batman then knocks the Corrosive Man into the pit of limestone which neutralizes his deadly touch. It is not known whether Mitchel is still alive.

On the way home, Batman passes a car accident involving a disc jockey and Harlan Woolf, the smuggler who escaped Batman earlier in the evening.