Not sure how best to address this one, but I think variants E-I of Batman (Vol. 1) #428 need to have their “Death of Robin (Jason Todd)” minor key status removed.
These issues feature the alternate version of the story where Robin lives, so the key is inaccurate.
That being said, 428E (the only one of the aforementioned variants I own) is actually titled on the indicia as BATMAN 428: ROBIN LIVES! 1 so perhaps it/they need a separate entry entirely.
Thank you for posting. Bit of a head scratcher of where to move this to, came up with “Batman: From the Vault”. This would make it easier if DC were to do this again to another DC title.
Thanks Justin. Glad I’m not the only one who wasn’t sure.
The issue has a “From the DC Vault” banner on the top, but this is not recorded in the indicia.
Incidentally, the ensuing four part miniseries Death in the Family: Robin Lives also has the same banner (I don’t have the issues to hand to see what the indicia say) and they are in the core as From the DC Vault: Death in the Family: Robin Lives … would titling this one From the DC Vault: Batman be better for consistency around the banner? Personally I would say that the alternate Batman 428 should be under the same series name as it is the precursor to the miniseries, but I appreciate it’s a different title.
Yeh I know, the indicia doesn’t really help here to make it 'find-able". I wanted to make a general title where if they did more, more could be added without any troubles. But now looking into it further, it looks like they’re not doing any more of them. Changed it to “Batman: Death in the Family - Robin Lives!”.
