Research Catalog

Title

Batman in the forties / Batman created by Bob Kane.

Publication

New York : DC Comics, c2004.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Kane, Bob

Description

192 p. : chiefly col. ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

A collection of Batman comics from the years 1939-1949.

Subject

Batman (Fictitious character) > Comic books, strips, etc

Genre/Form

Comics (Graphic works)

Note

• Originally published (1939-1949) in single magazine form as Batman 7, 15, 20, 31, 37, 47-49, Detective Comics 27, 33, 38, 49, 80, Real Fact Comics 5, Star-Spangled Comics 70, World's Finest Comics 30.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cover Gallery: Milestones 8 -- Batman #1, Spring 1940 / Cover by Bob Kane -- World's Fair Comics #1, Spring 1941 / Cover by Jack Burnley -- Detective Comics #27, May 1939 / Cover by Bob Kane -- Detective Comics #38, Feburary 1940 / Cover by Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson -- "Case of the Chemical Syndicate" Originally presented in Detective Comics #27, May 1939 / Bill Finger, Art/Letters: Bob Kane 10 -- "Origin" Originally presented in Detective Comics #33, November 1939 / Gardner Fox, Artist: Bob Kane, Letters/Background inks: Sheldon Moldoff 16 -- "Robin the Boy Wonder" Originally presented in Detective Comics #38, April 1940 / Bill Finger, Pencils: Bob Kane, Inks/Letters: Jerry Robinson 18 -- "The People vs. Batman" Originally presented in Batman #7, October-November 1941 / Bill Finger, Pencils: Bob Kane, Inks: Jerry Robinson, Letters/background inks: George Roussos 30 -- "The Origin of Batman" Originally presented in Batman #47, June-July 1948 / Bill Finger, Pencils: Bob Kane, Inks: Charles Paris, Letters: Ira Schnapp 43 -- Cover Gallery: Props 56 -- Detective Comics #61, March 1942 / Cover by Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson, George Roussos -- Detective Comics #127, September 1947 / Cover by Charies Paris -- Batman #48, August-September 1948 / Cover by Win Mortimer -- Batman #10, April-May 1942 / Cover by Jerry Robinson -- "The Joker Follows Suit" Originally presented in Batman #37, October-November 1946 / Unknown, Art: Jerry Robinson, Letters: George Roussos 58 -- "The Penny Plunderers" Originally presented in World's Finest Comics #30 September-October, 1947 / Bill Finger, Pencils: Bob Kane, Inks: Ray Burnley 71 -- "The 1,000 Secrets of the Batcave" Originally presented in Batman #48, August-September 1948 / Bill Finger, Art: Jim Mooney, Letters: Ira Schnapp 84 -- Cover Gallery: The Batman Family 96 -- World's Finest Comics #3, Autumn 1941 / Cover by Fred Ray -- Batman #22, April-May 1944 / Cover by Dick Sprang -- Detective Comics #42, August 1940 / Cover by Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson -- Batman #26, December-January 1945 / Cover by Jerry Robinson -- "Alfred, Armchair Detective" Originally presented in Batman #31, October-November 1945 / Unknown, Art: Jerry Robinson, Letters: Ira Schnapp 98 -- "Bruce Wayne Loses the Guardianship of Dick Grayson" Originally presented in Batman #20, December-January 1944 / Bill Finger, Pencils: Bob Kane, Inks: Jerry Robinson, Letters: George Roussos 102 -- "Clocks of Doom" Originally presented in Star-Spangled Comics #70, July 1947 / Bill Finger, Pencils: Win Mortimer, Inks: Charles Paris 114 -- Cover Gallery: The Villains 124 -- Detective Comics #89, July 1944 / Cover by Dick Sprang -- Detective Comics #73, March 1943 / Cover by Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson -- Detective Comics #140, October 1948 / Cover by Win Mortimer -- Detective Comics #29, July 1940 / Cover by Bob Kane -- "Your Face is Your Fortune" Originally presented in Batman #15, February-March 1943 / Jack Schiff, Pencils: Bob Kane, Inks: Jerry Robinson, Letters/background inks: George Roussos 126 -- "The Scoop of the Century" Originally presented in Batman #49, October-November 1948 / Bill Finger, Pencils: Bob Kane (figures) Lew Sayre Schwartz (backgrounds), Inks: Lew Sayre Schwartz, Letters: Ira Schnapp 139 -- "Clayface Walks Again" Originally presented in Detective Comics #49, March 1941 / Bill Finger, Pencils: Bob Kane, Inks: Jerry Robinson, George Roussos, Letters: George Roussos 151 -- "The End of Two-Face" Originally presented in Detective Comics #80, October 1943 / Bill Finger, Pencils: Bob Kane, Inks: Jerry Robinson, Letters/background inks: George Roussos 164 -- "Half-Man Half-Monster" Originally presented in newspapers June 23-August 18, 1946 / Bill Finger, Pencils: Jack Burnley, Inks: Win Mortimer, Letters: Ira Schnapp 176 -- "The True Story of Batman and Robin" Originally presented in Real Fact Comics #5, January 1947 / Unknown, Art: Win Mortimer 188.

ISBN

1401202063 (pbk.)

LCCN

• ^^2005271639
• 761941241166

OCLC

• 54860244
• SCSB-12599872

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library