Comic Title: Detective Comics #587
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: June 1988
On Sale Date: March 8, 1988 Shipping Date March 8, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #2

Shipping Date March 8, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #136

Newsstand Date March 31, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #136

Copyright Date March 8, 1988
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1988

Shipping Date February 9, 1988
Source: Direct Currents, #1
Listing dates were out of sequence

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Night People"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Batman (Post-Crisis)

Writer: John Wagner
Writer: Alan Grant
Artist: Norm Breyfogle
Letterer: Todd Klein
Colorist: Adrienne Roy

Reprinted In:
Legends of the Dark Knight:Norm Breyfogle Vol. 1 HC (2015)
Batman:The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 2 TPB (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Batman (last appearance in Justice League International #15; next appearance in Detective Comics #588)

Villain(s)

• Corrosive Man (Derek Mitchel; an escaped killer; next appearance in Detective Comics #588)
• Two unnamed muggers (no further appearances)
• Harlan Woolf (next appearance in Detective Comics #589)
• Webley (Kadaver's assistant; mostly behind-the-scenes; first appearance; next appearance in Detective Comics #588)
• Woolf's men (Floyd and James named; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• D.J. Dark (a radio disc jockey; next appearance in Detective Comics #588)
• A nurse (no further appearances)
• Michael Rossi (a homeless man; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• A group of homeless men (Billy and Legs named; next appearance in Detective Comics #588)
• Bannen (an informant; no further appearances)
• Willy and his partner (police officers; next appearance in Detective Comics #588)
• Babette (a radio newswoman; next appearance in Detective Comics #589)

Comments:
This story continues in Detective Comics #588.

Synopsis:
Batman patrols the streets of Gotham and saves a mugging victim by defeating both her attackers. He then tracks down Bannen, an informant, who gives him the location of Harlan Woolf, a drug smuggler. While Batman waits at the docks for Woolf, the police chase Derek Mitchel, an escaped convict. Woolf sees the police and attempts to turn his boat around. Batman boards the boat to capture Woolf. Instead, the drug smugglers dives into the stormy waters.

Back on the docks, lightning strikes a hazardous waste depot where Mitchel was hiding. It causes an explosion, leading police to assume that Mitchel is dead. Batman then turns over the drug shipment he took from Woolf's boat to the police. After they leave Mitchel emerges from hiding. He was exposed to toxic waste and lightning which have turned him into the Corrosive Man.