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Detective Comics #629 Vol 1 p.5 (5/1991 DC) Batman drawn by Jim Aparo

Artists: Jim Aparo (Penciller) , Steve Leialoha (Inker)

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Title:	Detective Comics #629 Vol 1 p.5 (5/1991 DC) Batman drawn by Jim Aparo
Artist:	Jim Aparo (Penciller)
Artist:	Steve Leialoha (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
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Added to Site:	6/12/2019
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Jim Aparo defined Batman for me starting with storylines such as "Ten Nights of the Beast" and "A Death in the Family" in the late 1980s when I was a teenager in Secondary school.

A nice piece from the peak Jim Aparo era for Batman/ Detective comics. Jim Aparo Batman OA pieces are hard to come by. Am happy to be able to procure this OA drawn by an artist that I consider one of those that defined the caped crusader!

Title: Detective Comics Vol 1

Story: The Hungry Grass

Issue: 629

Page: 5

Published: 5/1991 (DC)

Characters: Batman + Dean "Hungry" Fahy (Antagonist)

Dimensions: Comic Art Board 41x29cm

Synopsis for "The Hungry Grass!"

For several nights, Gotham City is plagued by bizarre disasters: policemen are killed by invisible axes, cars crash against thin air, and ordinary citizens launch into sudden homicidal rages. A mysterious terrorist known as "Hungry" claims to be responsible, and promises more deaths if his demands are not met. To the consternation of both Batman and the police, Hungry's demands are even more bizarre than the deaths - for instance, ordering citizens to clean the sidewalks with toothbrushes while accusing Batman of being a "lying, hypocritical, sanctimonious Fascist guardian of injustice".

Sensing that Hungry has a special hatred for him, Batman issues a personal challenge, which Hungry accepts. The two men confront each other at the abandoned Blackgate Penitentiary, where Hungry reveals himself to be an out-of-shape drunkard exacting revenge on Gotham City for wrongful imprisonment. Batman pursues Hungry, but is attacked by a variety of phantoms - prison guards, murderous convicts, and even the sensations of a drug withdrawal. Hungry escapes in the confusion, but Batman nevertheless secures several clues.

With the clues, and some help from the police, Batman discovers Hungry is Dean Fahy, a pizza boy convicted of murder fifteen years ago. Fahy, afflicted with depression and alcoholism from his time in Blackgate, had returned to his native Ireland seeking peace and discovered a cache of "hungry grass" - grass enchanted by the death of a powerful witch. When laid at the site of any violent event, the grass magically "replays" the event, sometimes summoning phantoms of the perpetrators and sometimes merely possessing passerby.

Armed with this knowledge, Batman finds Fahy hiding in the hotel room where his supposed murder had occurred; there, Fahy has rigged himself up as a human bomb, ready to scatter the rest of the hungry grass across Gotham as his final revenge. As Batman tries to reason with Fahy, he steps on a strand of the grass and sees the murder reproduced in every detail; the true killer was not Fahy, but the bellhop who had accused him. Batman now proclaims Fahy innocent, but Fahy refuses to abandon his revenge; in the ensuing struggle, Fahy himself falls on a patch of the grass and is killed by the bellhop's phantom.

With Hungry's reign of terror ended, the police re-open the Fahy murder case, while Batman and Alfred burn the rest of the hungry grass.

About Jim Aparo's Batman work:

After his Batman work on Brave and the Bold, Aparo's next major work consisted of pencils for Batman and Detective Comics, where his art was almost always inked by Mike DeCarlo. Aparo returned to the Batman title with issue #414 (Dec. 1987) in collaboration with writer Jim Starlin. One of their first storylines for the title was "Ten Nights of The Beast"[19] in issues #417 - 420 (March - June 1988) which introduced the KGBeast. Perhaps the most notable product of this period remains "A Death in the Family"(Batman #426-429, 1988–89), depicting the death of Jason Todd (Robin). The "A Lonely Place of Dying" storyline crossed over with The New Titans title and introduced Tim Drake as the new Robin.[21] Aparo continued to draw Batman stories in Detective and Batman until the early 1990s. During this time he was the regular artist on Batman when Bane broke Bruce Wayne's back during the "KnightFall" storyline. In 1992, Aparo returned to do pencils, inks, and lettering for his Batman stories, but was soon returned to contributing only pencil art.

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