Hot on the heels of the first comic book to fetch one million dollars, an 8.0 CGC graded copy of Detective Comics #27 featuring the first appearance of Batman brings $1,075,000 at auction! Who says Superman is better than Batman! This book was purchased by a collector 40 years ago for $100 and was beautifully [...]
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The Clock Strikes Twice – A Batman & Robin Swipe
I enjoyed reading Pat’s recent post at the Silver Age Blog about Batman’s swipe of Blackhawk. That got me thinking about an earlier swipe where the Silver Age Batman swipes a story from the Golden Age Robin the Boy Wonder. Although I covered this story way back in the Golden Age of Comic Books Podcast [...]
The Year of the Bat, Part 2
In my first posting about “The Year of the Bat” I focused on when Batman first appeared on the newsstands in the USA. In response to that post, I was informed that Detective Comics #27 (Batman’s first appearance) had a newsstand date of April 18, 1939 as reported by the DC Indexes Blog. While I don’t [...]
The Year of the Bat
Last year there was much said about the 70th anniversary of the “birth” of Superman (and the Golden Age of Comic Books) in Action Comics #1 (1938). It’s a new year, and there’s more cause for celebration, as 2009 is the year of the Bat – the 70th anniversary of the birth of Batman in [...]
The Origin of the Bat Cave
A while back I posted about Dick Sprang’s “Secrets of the Batcave” lithograph. While I was looking at my print, I realized that I did not know the exact origin of the Batcave in comics. Of course, there is a memorable cover devoted to the “1,000 Secrets of the Batcave” (Batman #48, August-September 1948), but [...]