DETECTIVE COMICS No. 28 Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: June, 1939 Description: CGC certified: Good- (1.8). Purple label: Restored (C-4). Cream to off-white pages. Grader notes: "Detached cover; RIGHT EDGE OF BACK COVER TRIMMED; color touch on cover; heavy tape cover; piece added with tape cover C-4." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 40 graded copies (16 Universal, 2 Qualified, 22 Restored). GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A restored 1.0 (C-2, married cover) sold for $7800 in 5/22. For comparison purposes, here are recent Universal sales: A 1.5 sold for $8500 in 8/12; a 2.0 sold for $16,730 in 11/16 (there are few reported recent sales in any grade). Credits: Cover: Fred Guardineer. Scripts: Bill Finger, Gardner Fox, Homer Fleming, Jerry Siegel, Jim Chambers, Jack Anthony, Sax Rohmer, Leo O'Mealia?, Jerry Siegel. Art: Bob Kane, Fred Guardineer, Homer Fleming, Wayne Boring (ghosting for Joe Shuster), Jim Chambers, Tom Hickey, Leo O'Mealia?, Sven Elven, Wayne Boring. Overstreet: "2nd app: The Batman; non-Batman cover." Bat-cyclopedia: "Batman apprehends jewel thief FRENCHY BLAKE.... [a] dapper, monocled leader of a gang of jewel thieves.... BATMAN corners Blake in his apartment, extorts a written confession from him by dangling him out of the window at the end of a rope and threatening to cut the rope unless Blake cooperates, and then turns both Blake and the confession over to the authorities." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 115, 149. Q: Why isn't Batman pictured on this mag's cover? The sales figures for Batman's debut in Detective Comics #27 weren't tallied when this book was in production, and the publisher had no idea yet that Batman was a smash hit. With #35, when it was abundantly clear that the Caped Crusader was the star of the show, Batman seized control of Detective Comics' covers and never let go. Q: Who were Batman's predecessors? According to Batman's co-creator Bill Finger, "Batman was written originally in the style of the pulps," and the character owes much of his inspiration to pulpy precursors such as Johnston McCulley's "Zorro" (who debuted in August 1919), Walter Gibson's "The Shadow" (who debuted in April 1931), Harry Steeger's "The Spider" (who debuted in October 1933), and D.L. Champion's "Phantom Detective" (who debuted in March 1933). Bob Kane claimed to have been visually inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's late 15th century sketch of an ornithopter (an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings), and said he based Batman's alter ego on 19th century United States Army officer "Mad Anthony" Wayne. But the most direct inspiration for Batman may have been C.K.M. Scanlon's "The Bat," a hooded crimefighter who debuted in the first ish of Popular Detective (November 1934). In a key sequence, the Bat's alter ego, Dawson Claude, sits in his room trying to dream up a secret identity when a bat suddenly flies through his open window. "That's it!," Dawson cries, an epiphany instantly recognizable to every Batman fan. Chiroptera Coda: "The Batman comics had absorbed so many influences, so many borrowings, that they were ready to explode. The character had become a seething nuclear stockpile of a society's dark dreams and desires." — Les Daniels, Batman: The Complete History. Chronicle Books: 1999, p. 33. Batman's Kill Count: "In just the first year of his existence Batman will send some twenty-four men, two vampires, a pack of werewolves, and several giant mutants to their ultimate ends, occasionally at the business end of a gun. Eventually — after the tyke in pixie boots shows up to lighten the tone — Batman will find himself resorting to deadly force less often, and he will ultimately reject the use of firearms outright. For now, though, he's a remorseless killer." — Glen Weldon, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. Simon & Schuster:
DETECTIVE COMICS No. 28 Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: June, 1939 Description: CGC certified: Good- (1.8). Purple label: Restored (C-4). Cream to off-white pages. Grader notes: "Detached cover; RIGHT EDGE OF BACK COVER TRIMMED; color touch on cover; heavy tape cover; piece added with tape cover C-4." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 40 graded copies (16 Universal, 2 Qualified, 22 Restored). GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A restored 1.0 (C-2, married cover) sold for $7800 in 5/22. For comparison purposes, here are recent Universal sales: A 1.5 sold for $8500 in 8/12; a 2.0 sold for $16,730 in 11/16 (there are few reported recent sales in any grade). Credits: Cover: Fred Guardineer. Scripts: Bill Finger, Gardner Fox, Homer Fleming, Jerry Siegel, Jim Chambers, Jack Anthony, Sax Rohmer, Leo O'Mealia?, Jerry Siegel. Art: Bob Kane, Fred Guardineer, Homer Fleming, Wayne Boring (ghosting for Joe Shuster), Jim Chambers, Tom Hickey, Leo O'Mealia?, Sven Elven, Wayne Boring. Overstreet: "2nd app: The Batman; non-Batman cover." Bat-cyclopedia: "Batman apprehends jewel thief FRENCHY BLAKE.... [a] dapper, monocled leader of a gang of jewel thieves.... BATMAN corners Blake in his apartment, extorts a written confession from him by dangling him out of the window at the end of a rope and threatening to cut the rope unless Blake cooperates, and then turns both Blake and the confession over to the authorities." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 115, 149. Q: Why isn't Batman pictured on this mag's cover? The sales figures for Batman's debut in Detective Comics #27 weren't tallied when this book was in production, and the publisher had no idea yet that Batman was a smash hit. With #35, when it was abundantly clear that the Caped Crusader was the star of the show, Batman seized control of Detective Comics' covers and never let go. Q: Who were Batman's predecessors? According to Batman's co-creator Bill Finger, "Batman was written originally in the style of the pulps," and the character owes much of his inspiration to pulpy precursors such as Johnston McCulley's "Zorro" (who debuted in August 1919), Walter Gibson's "The Shadow" (who debuted in April 1931), Harry Steeger's "The Spider" (who debuted in October 1933), and D.L. Champion's "Phantom Detective" (who debuted in March 1933). Bob Kane claimed to have been visually inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's late 15th century sketch of an ornithopter (an aircraft that flies by flapping its wings), and said he based Batman's alter ego on 19th century United States Army officer "Mad Anthony" Wayne. But the most direct inspiration for Batman may have been C.K.M. Scanlon's "The Bat," a hooded crimefighter who debuted in the first ish of Popular Detective (November 1934). In a key sequence, the Bat's alter ego, Dawson Claude, sits in his room trying to dream up a secret identity when a bat suddenly flies through his open window. "That's it!," Dawson cries, an epiphany instantly recognizable to every Batman fan. Chiroptera Coda: "The Batman comics had absorbed so many influences, so many borrowings, that they were ready to explode. The character had become a seething nuclear stockpile of a society's dark dreams and desires." — Les Daniels, Batman: The Complete History. Chronicle Books: 1999, p. 33. Batman's Kill Count: "In just the first year of his existence Batman will send some twenty-four men, two vampires, a pack of werewolves, and several giant mutants to their ultimate ends, occasionally at the business end of a gun. Eventually — after the tyke in pixie boots shows up to lighten the tone — Batman will find himself resorting to deadly force less often, and he will ultimately reject the use of firearms outright. For now, though, he's a remorseless killer." — Glen Weldon, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. Simon & Schuster:
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