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DETECTIVE COMICS No. 31 * 1st Batplane Appearance Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: September, 1939 Description: CGC certified: Good- (1.8). Purple Label: Restored (C-3). Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: "Spine of cover completely split & re-attached with tape; tape centerfold; tape full center of interior spine; tape full center of spine; cleaned; color touch on front cover; color touch on spine." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 99 graded copies (60 Universal, 1 Qualified, 38 Restored). GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A Restored 1.5 (C-1) sold for $14,600 in 5/15; a Restored 1.0 (C-1) sold for $14,340 in 11/15. More recently, a Restored 2.5 (C-1) sold for $52,800 in 11/21. For comparison purposes, here are Universal sales: A 1.8 sold for $24,000 in 9/13; a 1.5 sold for $66,000 in 11/22. Credits: Cover: Bob Kane. Scripts: Gardner Fox, Paul Gustavson, Homer Fleming, Jerry Siegel, Ken Ernst, Fred Guardineer, Sven Elven?, Tom Hickey. Art: Bob Kane, Paul Gustavson, Homer Fleming, Mart Bailey, Ken Ernst, Fred Guardineer, Tom Hickey, Sven Elven, Joe Shuster. Overstreet: "Classic Batman over castle cover; 1st app. The Monk & 1st Julie Madison (Bruce Wayne's 1st love interest); 1st Batplane (Bat-Gyro) and Batarang; 1st mention of locale (New York City) where Batman lives." Fifth appearance of Batman. Bat-Bibliography: The DC Universe Collection copy of Detective Comics #31 is given a full-page illustration in Taschen's 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (page 112), with the following commentary: "With an interior lead story in Detective No. 31, Gardner Fox became the first writer other than Bill Finger to script the series. Most significantly, this issue introduced an early form of the Batplane (the Batgyro) and Bruce Wayne's fiancée Julie Madison." Bat-cyclopedia: "In September 1939 Batman matches wits with the MONK.... a cunning and diabolical villain — the texts describe him both as a werewolf and a vampire — whose battles with BATMAN are recorded in Detective Comics No. 31 and Detective Comics No. 32. Batman ultimately destroys the Monk and his raven-haired accomplice DALA by firing silver bullets into their bodies as they lie resting in their coffins in the Monk's castle stronghold in far-off Hungaria." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 115, 279. Batplane Debuts: "Batman's first aircraft, introduced in September 1939, is the so-called 'batgyro' or 'bat-plane,' a powerful autogyro whose highly stylized batlike design gives it the appearance in flight of an eerie 'monster bat.' Housed in a 'secret hangar' whose location is known only to Batman, and equipped with 'automatic controls' that enable it to hover in mid-air or maintain a pre-set course automatically, the batgyro inspires awe and pandemonium as it passes overhead. 'The end of the world,' cries one frightened onlooker. 'We are attacked by Martians!'" — Fleisher, Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman, p. 60. Classic Castle Cover: "The first thing notable about this story is its cover. This would be the third time that Batman would appear on the cover of Detective Comics and the image would end up being one of the most influential and iconic.... Bob Kane gets a lot of flak for his art style, his use of ghost artists and his treatment of Bill Finger. A lot of it is well-deserved but there’s no question that he along with inker Sheldon Moldoff knocked this drawing out of the park. The cover was dark, moody and really set the tone for not only the story but how Batman was perceived.... It’s arguably the greatest cover in the character’s history and has been copied and referenced constantly since first appearing 80 years ago." — "Detective Comics #31-31: Batman Versus the Vampire." Detective Comments blog, posted January 29, 2019. The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION comprises over 40,000 comic