Knight Terrors: Detective Comics #1
Dustin Nguyen Midnight Cardstock Variant · original first printing · Collect Forever Soft Slab
25 July 2023 on-sale date · September 2023 cover date
Original-release Dustin Nguyen Midnight Cardstock Variant of Knight Terrors: Detective Comics #1, the first half of a two-issue Jim Gordon-focused branch of DC's 2023 Knight Terrors crossover. The issue places Gordon's former robotic Batsuit inside a nightmare-horror scenario and forms part of DC's coordinated line-wide “Midnight” variant programme, for which Nguyen supplied stark alternate covers across multiple Knight Terrors launches.
Read the catalogue note →- Issue
- #1
- Publisher
- DC Comics · Knight Terrors
- State
- Collect Forever Soft Slab · ungraded
- Condition
- Near Mint appearance within Collect Forever Soft Slab — ungraded.
- Completeness
- Appears complete as enclosed, but the interior has not been physically inspected or page-counted. No separately issued premium or supplement was identified in the sources checked; binding, staples and internal completeness cannot be independently assessed while the Soft Slab remains closed.
- Rarity
- Not assessed
Catalogue note
Original-release Dustin Nguyen Midnight Cardstock Variant of Knight Terrors: Detective Comics #1, the first half of a two-issue Jim Gordon-focused branch of DC's 2023 Knight Terrors crossover. The issue places Gordon's former robotic Batsuit inside a nightmare-horror scenario and forms part of DC's coordinated line-wide “Midnight” variant programme, for which Nguyen supplied stark alternate covers across multiple Knight Terrors launches. This red, black and white cover is especially useful as material evidence of the event's unified variant-cover strategy as well as Nguyen's Batman-related visual practice.
Writer: Dan Watters
Artist: Riccardo Federici · Brad Anderson (colours) · Steve Wands (letters)
Cover: Dustin Nguyen
Edition: Cover D · Dustin Nguyen Midnight Cardstock Variant · original first-release printing · Collect Forever designation #1D · UPC 76194138097100161
Why this object matters
Nguyen’s restricted-palette Midnight cover documents a coordinated event-wide visual programme and Jim Gordon-focused horror branch. That specific design context is meaningful, but does not require the former strong 8.3 score for this recent two-part tie-in’s opener.
Evidence limits: Appears complete as enclosed, but the interior has not been physically inspected or page-counted. No separately issued premium or supplement was identified in the sources checked; binding, staples and internal completeness cannot be independently assessed while the Soft Slab remains closed.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 7.8 / 10.
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Recorded contributions · 3
- Dan WattersWritingCatalogue credit
Writing credit: Dan Watters Original catalogue credit
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Artwork credit: Riccardo Federici · Brad Anderson (colours) · Steve Wands (letters) Original catalogue credit
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Cover artwork credit: Dustin Nguyen Original catalogue credit
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