Comic Title: Detective Comics #409
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: March 1971
On Sale Date: January 28, 1971 Copyright Date January 28, 1971
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1971

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.15
Page Count: 32
Contains: Ownership Statement
Circulation: 209757
Editor: Julius Schwartz

Title: "Night of the Sharp Horns"
Pages: 7

Feature(s):
Batgirl (of Earth-1)

Writer: Frank Robbins
Penciller: Don Heck
Inker: Dick Giordano

Reprinted In:
Showcase Presents:Batgirl Vol. 1 TPB (2007)
Batgirl:The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Batgirl (last appearance in Detective Comics #408; next appearance in Detective Comics #410)

Other Character(s)

• El Granados (last appearance in Detective Comics #408; no further appearances)
• Manolo El Viejo (last appearance in Detective Comics #408; no further appearances)
• Paco (last appearance in Detective Comics #408; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Detective Comics #408.

Synopsis:
On the ranch of Don Alvarado, Batgirl waits for a mysterious man who killed a bull the previous night to return. This time she witnesses the man practice fighting a bull. She interrupts the fight and unmasks him as Paco, an aspiring bull fighter. Paco claims not to have been responsible for the death of the other bull.

In interrupting the fight, Batgirl puts herself in the way of the bull. She flees and takes refuge in Alvarado's arena. There, another masked man directs a bull to attack her. She subdues the bull using rodeo skills. She then unmasks this man as Manolo, the mentor of bull fighter El Granados. Manolo wanted to kill the bulls to protect El Granados who is past his prime. El Granados agrees to retire from the sport.