Detective Comics #583 is an issue of the series Detective Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1988. It was published on November 3, 1987.
Synopsis for "Fever"
A new designer drug called "Fever" floods the streets of Gotham City, inducing many of the city's teens and preteens to fits of homicidal rage. When Batman sees a group of juvenile Fever addicts kill an old security guard in cold blood, he takes a personal interest in stopping the drug's proliferation. Soon after, Batman raids the Fever pushers' headquarters and forces the pushers to give him the name of their supplier: Scarface.
Unbeknownst to Batman, Scarface is actually a wooden puppet operated by a shady nightclub owner known only as the Ventriloquist, who is seemingly a harmless milquetoast, but channels his criminal instincts through an alternate personality that "lives" inside Scarface. Unaware that he is now Batman's latest target, Scarface spends the night shooting one incompetent lackey dead, and sending another to Tijuana on a deadly drug run.
Appearing in "Fever"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Scarface (First appearance)
- Ventriloquist (First appearance)
- Rhino (First appearance)
- Louis da Lump (Single appearance; dies)
- William Henry "Fatman" Cherry (First appearance)
- Chally (Single appearance)
- Rhino (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Jacko (Single appearance)
- Joey (Single appearance)
Locations:
- Gotham City
- Delirius Street
- Electric Street
- Ventriloquist Club
- O'Leary's
Items:
- Batarang
- Batrope
- Batsuit
- Fever (First appearance)
- Utility Belt
Notes
- This issue marks the beginning of Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle's run in Detective Comics. It is reprinted in Legends of the Dark Knight: Norm Breyfogle Vol. 1 and in Batman: The Dark Knight Detective, Vol. 2.
- First appearance of the Ventriloquist and Scarface. They make a chronologically earlier appearance in the two-part storyline from Showcase '94 #8-9. The Ventriloquist's real name will not be revealed until Robin Annual (Volume 4) #1.
- Fatman's real is revealed in the next issue.
Trivia
- The first panel of page 5 has a comic book of "Ultraman" as an easter egg. The character seems like a parody of Superman, athough it could also be a reference to the alternate universe version Ultraman.
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Batman Recommended Reading
- Batman (Volume 1)
- Batman (Volume 2)
- Batman (Volume 3)
- Batman and Robin (Volume 1)
- Batman and Robin (Volume 2)
- Batman and Robin (Volume 3)
- Batman Confidential (Volume 1)
- Batman: Gotham Knights (Volume 1)
- Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (Volume 1)
- Batman: Shadow of the Bat (Volume 1)
- Batman: Streets of Gotham (Volume 1)
- Batman Incorporated (Volume 1)
- Batman Incorporated (Volume 2)
- Batman/Superman (Volume 1)
- Batman/Superman (Volume 2)
- Batman/Superman: World's Finest (Volume 1)
- Batman: The Dark Knight (Volume 1)
- Batman: The Dark Knight (Volume 2)
- The Brave and the Bold (Volume 1)
- Detective Comics (Volume 1)
- Detective Comics (Volume 2)
- Superman/Batman (Volume 1)
- World's Finest (Volume 1)
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