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Holy first issues, Batman! DC Comics is taking its flagship "Detective Comics" back to No. 1 at the end of the summer, part of its push to renumber all of its superhero titles and give the characters new looks, new attitudes and a contemporary feel.
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Artist Graham Nolan broke the Batman's back, and lived to tell about it. A 20-year veteran of the comic book industry, he was tasked as DC Comics' Detective Comics artist in the 1990s to illustrate a beefy villain named Bane, who put the Dark Knight out of commission nearly permanently.
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DALLAS - A 1939 comic book in which Batman makes his debut sold at auction Thursday for more than $1 million, breaking a record set just three days earlier by a Superman comic, Heritage Auction Galleries said. The Dallas-based auction house said the rare copy of Detective Comics No. 27 sold for a total of $1,075,500, which includes the buyer's premium, to a buyer who wished to remain anonymous. The consigner wanted to remain anonymous as well.
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...See Detective Comics v. Bruns Publ'ns, 28 F. Supp. 399 (S.D.N.Y....
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HYPED ABOUT THE upcoming Superman Returns movie that arrives in theaters this Wednesday? Think you know everything about Superman? A to Z, here are some super-facts that you may not know. A -- ACTION COMICS: The comic-book series that first delivered the Man of Steel to the public. The publisher was Detective Comics, Inc., which would later be known as National Comics and as National Periodical Publications, before assuming its current name of DC Comics. B -- BROADWAY: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! opened in New York in 1965 and featured musical numbers The Strongest Man in the World, Pow! Bam! Zonk! and It's Super Nice. The singing and dancing Superman was played by a relatively unknown actor, Bob Holiday. The short-lived musical was made into a 1975 TV series for ABC, invo...
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TIME OUT for some nostalgia. I first encountered the super-guy back in 1952, when I was given my first Superman Comic soon followed, thanks to my not-at-all flush but very tolerant mom (a terrific but under-employed artist who could draw a really good Superman, or anything else, herself), by a vast cache of "Batmans", "Superboys", "Action", "Adventure", "Detective" and "World's Finest Comics" (and best of all, the original Carl Barks' "Uncle Scrooges").
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DALLAS -- Heritage Auction Galleries says a 1939 comic book in which Batman makes his debut has sold at auction in Dallas for more than $1 million -- setting a record for the amount paid for a comic. The rare copy of Detective Comics No. 27 from 1939 went for $1,075,500 Thursday. A Heritage official says it was sold on behalf of an anonymous consignor and the buyer wished to remain anonymous as well.
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Last month I mentioned DC is overhauling its superhero books. Pick up one of them bearing the One Year Later stamp, and the characters and settings sometimes seem unfamiliar for someone who's read the titles over the past five years. But we won't find out what caused these changes until a new series called 52 begins in May. DC is taking quite a gamble by asking us to wait a year before its authors answer that, so this Panelhead will include a new criterion: Besides being entertaining, are these stories compelling enough to stick with them for a year until we learn what changed everything? One Year Later seems to be pretty popular too: Jett Boynton, who manages True Believers Comics and Gallery, told me some customers are asking for the entire lineup. Other customers, some of whom may...
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Traditionally, Western males are really into machinery, power and cars, which represent symbols of masculinity," says comic book artist Norm Breyfogle. "Batman is all of that wrapped up in one guy. A rugged individualist who drives and designs tough cars." Cars don't come much tougher than the high-tech urban assault tank serving as the Batmobile in the new "Batman Begins," which opened Wednesday. Nicknamed the Tumbler, this Batmobile is the latest in a venerable line. The versatile crime fighter on wheels has undergone multiple redesigns - in comics, television and movies - during the past 66 years, becoming, in the process, almost as legendary as the DC Comics superhero who rides in it. Originally drawn as a red, modified sedan by Batman's first illustrator and creator, Bob Kane,...
...Breyfogle, who worked on Detective Comics and Batman from 1987 to 1993, took a Lambor...
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ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. - Holy collectibles, Batman! A near-mint copy of "Detective Comics 27," a pre-World War II comic featuring Batman's debut, was recently found in an attic and sold to a local collector.
