DETECTIVE COMICS No. 136 Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: June 1948 Description: CGC certified: Good (2.0). Purple label: Restored (C-4). Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: "Staple repositioned; TOP & BOTTOM EDGE OF FRONT COVER TRIMMED; color touch on full right & full left front cover; glue on cover; heavy spine stress lines to cover; heavy tape cover; moderate creasing to cover; piece added with tape cover C-4." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 39 graded copies (35 Universal, 1 Qualified, 3 Restored). GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A restored 3.0 (SA) sold for $316 in 11/21. For comparison purposes, here are recent Universal sales: A 3.0 sold for $165 in 6/16; a 3.5 sold for $305 in 6/21. Credits: Cover: Jack Burnley (Charles Paris inks). Scripts: Bill Finger. Art: Jack Burnley (ghosting as Bob Kane), Lee Harris, John Daly, Curt Swan. Bat-Bibliography: The DC Universe Collection copy of Detective Comics #136 is given a full-page illustration in Taschen's 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (page 151), with the following commentary: "Batman's hometown has had many newspapers, but none have been mentioned as prominently as the Gotham Gazette, dating back to Batman No. 17. One episode in World's Finest Comics No. 80 discloses that Bruce Wayne was on the paper's board of directors and that Daily Planet editor Perry White worked there as a cub reporter." Bat-cyclopedia: "In June 1948 Batman and Robin journey into the past to meet the pirate HENRY MORGAN.... the most famous of the seventeenth-century buccaneers who, knighted eventually by Charles II of England and appointed governor of Jamaica (1674) held this post intermittently until his death in 1688. A born leader and tactician who rapidly achieved top rank among the buccaneers and privateers who plundered the Caribbean in his day, he was probably never guilty of the barbaric cruelty commonly ascribed to him, as in Detective Comics No. 136, where he is portrayed as a murderous pirate chieftain and leader of a band of cutthroats. "Dispatched through the time barrier by PROFESSOR CARTER NICHOLS to... 1667... BATMAN and ROBIN are imprisoned as galley slaves on Morgan's ship. They defeat and outwit the pirates in a series of skirmishes and ultimately blow up Morgan's ship off the Florida Keys before returning to the safety of the twentieth century." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 121, 281. Item#: 360110 Headline: DETECTIVE COMICS #136 * Batman Battles Buccaneers
DETECTIVE COMICS No. 136 Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: June 1948 Description: CGC certified: Good (2.0). Purple label: Restored (C-4). Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: "Staple repositioned; TOP & BOTTOM EDGE OF FRONT COVER TRIMMED; color touch on full right & full left front cover; glue on cover; heavy spine stress lines to cover; heavy tape cover; moderate creasing to cover; piece added with tape cover C-4." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 39 graded copies (35 Universal, 1 Qualified, 3 Restored). GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A restored 3.0 (SA) sold for $316 in 11/21. For comparison purposes, here are recent Universal sales: A 3.0 sold for $165 in 6/16; a 3.5 sold for $305 in 6/21. Credits: Cover: Jack Burnley (Charles Paris inks). Scripts: Bill Finger. Art: Jack Burnley (ghosting as Bob Kane), Lee Harris, John Daly, Curt Swan. Bat-Bibliography: The DC Universe Collection copy of Detective Comics #136 is given a full-page illustration in Taschen's 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (page 151), with the following commentary: "Batman's hometown has had many newspapers, but none have been mentioned as prominently as the Gotham Gazette, dating back to Batman No. 17. One episode in World's Finest Comics No. 80 discloses that Bruce Wayne was on the paper's board of directors and that Daily Planet editor Perry White worked there as a cub reporter." Bat-cyclopedia: "In June 1948 Batman and Robin journey into the past to meet the pirate HENRY MORGAN.... the most famous of the seventeenth-century buccaneers who, knighted eventually by Charles II of England and appointed governor of Jamaica (1674) held this post intermittently until his death in 1688. A born leader and tactician who rapidly achieved top rank among the buccaneers and privateers who plundered the Caribbean in his day, he was probably never guilty of the barbaric cruelty commonly ascribed to him, as in Detective Comics No. 136, where he is portrayed as a murderous pirate chieftain and leader of a band of cutthroats. "Dispatched through the time barrier by PROFESSOR CARTER NICHOLS to... 1667... BATMAN and ROBIN are imprisoned as galley slaves on Morgan's ship. They defeat and outwit the pirates in a series of skirmishes and ultimately blow up Morgan's ship off the Florida Keys before returning to the safety of the twentieth century." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 121, 281. Item#: 360110 Headline: DETECTIVE COMICS #136 * Batman Battles Buccaneers
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