Research Catalog

Title

Batman : the Sunday classics, 1943-1946.

Publication

New York, NY : Sterling Publishing, Inc., c2007.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Kane, Bob

Description

208 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.); 31 cm.

Summary

Collects the Sunday Batman strips as they were originally published in the newspapers in the 1940s, in a book with behind-the-scenes information and rare promotional materials.

Uniform Title

Batman (Comic strip). Selections.

Subject

• Batman (Comic strip) > History
• Cartoonists > United States > Biography
• Batman (Comic strip)

Genre/Form

• Comics (Graphic works)
• Biographies
• History

Note

• "Batman created by Bob Kane."
• Originally copublished by CD Comics and Kitchen Sink Press in 1990.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Getting the job done -- History of the Batman and Robin Sundays -- Biographies -- Bubble gum similarities -- Previous reprintings -- McClure syndicate's promotional book -- Jack Burnley's pencils -- Batman--backward looking and forward leaning -- Penguin's crime-thunderstorms -- Secret of cap'n plankton's ghost -- Jesse James rides again! -- Undersea bank bandits -- Liquid gold! -- Cap'n Alfred -- Death row's innocent resident -- Mardi Gras mystery -- Attic full of art -- There was a crooked man ... -- Holy smoke! -- English sassiety skoit -- Rustling on a reservation -- Gopher: King of the underworld! -- Tale of the tinker diamond -- Pretty amnesiac -- Devil's reef -- Gotham's cleverest criminal -- Alfred Claus -- Twelvetoes -- Oswald who? -- Hotel grandeur -- Catwoman's grasshopper chase -- Half man--half monster -- Curse of the four fates! -- Tire tread deathtrap -- Later newspaper strips: 1953 -- Later newspaper strips: 1966 -- Later newspaper strips: 1978 -- Later newspaper strips: 1989 -- Tracy's influence.

ISBN

• 1402747187 (hc)
• 9781402747182 (hc)

OCLC

• 123956033
• SCSB-12823492

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library