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DETECTIVE COMICS No. 38 * Origin & 1st Appearance: Robin Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: April, 1940 Description: CGC certified: Poor (0.5). Purple Label: Restored (C-3). Off-white pages. Grader notes: "Tape page(s) 1; tape spine; wrong back cover; color touch on right top & right center front cover; color touch on spine; heavy tape interior cover; pieces added spine." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 145 graded copies (78 Universal, 2 Qualified, 65 Restored). Of the 65 Restored copies, 6 are graded 0.5. GPAnalysis: A Restored 0.5 (C-5, wraps married, wrong back cover, incomplete) sold for $6600 in 2/19; a Restored 0.5 (C-1, wrong back cover, trimmed) sold for $5300 in 5/15. For comparison purposes, here are recent Universal sales: A 0.5 (Promise Collection, wrong back cover, centerfold missing, incomplete) sold for $19,200 in 4/22; a 0.5 (No grade, coverless) sold for $6600 in 7/21. Credits: Cover: Bob Kane (Jerry Robinson inks). Scripts: Bill Finger, Jerry Siegel, Jack Lehti, Gardner Fox, Chad Grothkopf. Art: Bob Kane (Jerry Robinson inks), Maurice Kashuba, Ken Ernst, Jack Lehti, Fred Guardineer, Don Lynch, Chad Grothkopf, Dennis Neville. Overstreet: "Origin and 1st app: Robin the Boy Wonder; Batman and Robin covers begin." Bat-Bibliography: The DC Universe Collection copy of Detective Comics #38 is illustrated in Taschen's 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (page 115), with the following commentary: "It was Bob Kane's teenage assistant Jerry Robinson who observed that Batman's new partner was like a young Robin Hood and suggested calling him Robin. 'I recall adding the final touch on Bob's sketch of Robin,' the artist said. 'A small 'R' monogram on his vest.'" Bat-cyclopedia: "In April 1940 Batman takes the orphaned DICK GRAYSON under his protection and presides over his emergence as ROBIN, THE BOY WONDER.... the courageous, warm-hearted, hard-fighting, pun-loving teen-ager who [is] the inseparable crime-fighting companion of BATMAN.... Dick Grayson is the orphaned son of John and Mary Grayson, a husband-and-wife team of circus trapeze artists who, together with their young son Dick, comprised the FLYING GRAYSONS until they were murdered by protection racketeers.... It was Batman who took the young orphan under his wing, helped him avenge the deaths of his parents, trained him for his new life as a crime-fighter, and, as Bruce Wayne, took the legal steps necessary to establish himself as Dick Grayson's 'legal guardian." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 115, 317-318. The Reasons for Robin: Robin's introduction proved hugely popular with readers, softening Batman's hard edge and making the Dark Knight a friendlier, more accessible figure for young fans. Soon, boy sidekicks would become standard issue for costumed adventurers, including Bucky Barnes, Toro, Kitten, Kid Terror, Ebony White, Rusty, Dusty, Flame Girl, Captain Marvel Jr., Meteor, Buddy, Jinx, and a host of others. According to Jerry Robinson, it was Bob Kane's idea to give Batman a boy sidekick. "'He wanted someone the young readers could identify with more readily than this masked, mysterious figure. It was a brilliant idea and we all saw enormous story potential in the new character.' According to Kane, however, publisher Jack Liebowitz was skeptical about the idea of throwing a mere boy into harm's way, and from a realistic perspective he had a point. But Batman and Robin were fantasy figures, and readers responded enthusiastically to the death-defying kid. Sales doubled, but at the same time, Kane regretted the disappearance of the solitary and sinister Batman of the early days, a figure who would not return again for almost thirty years." — Les Daniels, Batman: The Complete History. Chronicle Books: 1999, pp. 38-39. The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION comprises over 40,000 comic books, including a copy