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DETECTIVE COMICS #400

“Challenge of the Man-Bat ; A Burial for Batgirl”

June 1970

KEYEarliest catalogued appearance of Man-Bat.

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writerDennis O'NeilartistGil Kane, Neal Adams, Vince Colletta, Dick GiordanoeditorJulius Schwartz

Zoologist Kirk Langstrom is working late at the Gotham Natural History Museum putting together a bat habitat; he aims to perfect a serum that can endow people with enhanced auditory abilities via a specialized bat gland extract. Pleased with his progress, he decides to test his new formula upon himself, mutating him into Man-Bat.