1941 batman comic book

Book of enchantment, script by bill finger, pencils by bob kane, inks by jerry robinson and george roussos backgrounds. Hey all, im sure ill get flamed for this post, but i figured id post it anyways. Fox pencils bob kane, ray mcgill, henry boltinoff, lou paige, raymond perry inks bob kane, jerry robinson, ray mcgill, henry boltinoff, lou paige, raymond perry letters. It was first advertised in early april 1940, one month after the first appearance of his new sidekick, robin, the boy wonder. The result was a combination of speed, style, and brute force that continues to influence batmobile designs today. Long before the us enters wwii, joe simon and jack kirby send a superhero to fight the fuhrer. The fleischer superman cartoons are a series of seventeen animated short films released in technicolor by paramount pictures and based upon the comic book character superman, making them his first animated appearance they were originally produced by fleischer studios, who completed the initial short and eight further cartoons in 1941 and 1942. The success of those characters was amplified by licensing corporation of america, a division of national periodicals. This batman comics price guide will help you to value all the early issues of batman comics, the series. While many batman spinoffs come and go, the selftitled series and detective comics are the two mainstays that will never fade away.

The storiesa are simple enough for a oung reader to understand. En realite, dick sprang travaille sur les titres batman depuis 1941, mais les. Batman is introduced to the world as the second major superhero. The belgian childrens comics magazine le soirjeunesse, a supplement of the nazicontrolled newspaper le soir, disappears after hardly a year of publication. Batman meets commissioner gordon face to face for the first time. Prior to 1941, superman confronted several petty dictators from small countries that appeared to be in central europe. Age of comics, most notably batman 1939 and wonder woman 1941. Another major comic book character to appear in this serial is alfred. Hobbizine comic book value guides list prices in all conditions from good to mint.

Get the best deals on batman golden age comics 19381955 when you shop the largest online selection at. All portions of the grand comics database, except where noted otherwise, are ed by the gcd and are licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4. He served as a marvel editor from 196580, as marvels editorinchief from 197274, and as a dc editor from 198086. While detective comics focuses on mysteries and the bats detective work, batman is designed as the more actionoriented comic. Worlds finest comics was published by dc comics from 1941 to 1986, running for 323 issues. The following comic titles were last published with a 1941 cover date. Captain marvel and other superheroes also clobbered nazi and japanese soldiers on. Worlds finest comics is a comic book title published from 1941 to 1986. Editor whitney ellsworth assigned a batman story to artist dick sprang in 1941. This book batman in the fifties is great for young readers a well as adult comic book fans. In fact, until the us actually went to war with japan, most of the stories in superman comics that dealt with war used europe as the backdrop.

Early editions of batman comics shed light on the fact that batman never used guns or killed. Commissioner gordon appoints batman an honorary member of the gotham police department. Batman and robin are sent to fairyland by an inventors strange machine that allows people to actually enter into the scenario of a book they are reading in order to try to locate his daughter he had sent there a few days earlier and return her safely. For the first time, the complete saga of the super sons is collected in one volume. Secondly, he looked like the character bruce wayne as drawn in the comics.

Batman earned his own selftitled comic book in 1940, while continuing to be featured in detective comics. The series was initially titled worlds best comics for its first issue march 1941. Old comic books batman comic books superman comic vintage comic books vintage comics comic book covers comic book heroes. First, he did originate the role when batman comics were only about 4 years old. This 1941 comic was the second issue of dc comics then called nationals book that contained both superman and batman stories in it. Superman, a symbol of american patriotism in his blueandred uniform, fought tyrants and dictators and even apprehended both adolf hitler and josef stalin in a special comic prepared in 1940 for look magazine. Make offer batman 86 nm 86b cardstock variant 2019 mattina deathstroke first 1st print. Batman comic books tagged worlds finest comics 1941. Batman 86 nm 86b cardstock variant 2019 mattina deathstroke first 1st print. He had appeared to have a stocky sort of a build which also coincided with the comics. Anticipating that bob kane would be drafted to serve in world.

The appearance of actor william austin was clearly at odds with the. We have 48 books to download or read online the latest is military comics 26. The stories are complete and average about 7 to 9 pages long. The definitive guide to collecting batman comics crushing krisis. Batman proved to be so popular that a selftitled ongoing comic book series began publication with a cover date of spring 1940. The success of those characters was amplified by licensing corporation of. Published by quality comics from august 1941 to november 1942, rod reilly was the bored and wealthy socialite son of a steel tycoon, who decided to fight crime with his servant and friend. The stories in this book introduce batwoman, ace the bathound, and the magical imp from the fifth dimension batmite.

Studios from 1942 to 1943 and released by paramount pictures between 1941 and 1943, based upon the comic book character superman. Batman v supermanthe story that first brought them. The political influence of comics in america during wwii. The following one shots were published with a 1941 cover date. But in this 1943 comic book, you can see batman as he is supplying guns to american soldiers and supporting the seventh war loan. Superheroes, like their readers, widely joined the war effort. Batman and robin capture a couple of criminals who have hijacked a train from gothams subway and five innocent lives are permanently changed for good after they are saved by the dynamic duo. Most likely, the reason for the title change was that dc received a cease and desist letter from better publications, inc.

In this issues story the penguin on parole, penguin uses a small group of real penguins to carry dynamite. They are derived from numerous sources such as dealer price lists, advertisements in comic book collecting publications, and public auction results. Batman earned his own selftitled comic book in 1940, while continuing. The following characters debuted with a 1941 cover date. This was the first issue of the series to be titled worlds finest comics, the title it would retain for the next 45 years.

Shortly after batman s 1939 introduction, the two characters were appearing on comicbook covers together, but they generally stayed apart from one another in the stories inside. Pick up the latest batman comic books for sale or fill holes in your collection with decades worth of batman back issue comics. The design was created nearly whole cloth, with only a passing resemblance to real cars of the time. The golden age of comics comics have been in existence since the end of the 19th century, but it was after the depression that the popularity of newspaper cartoons expanded into a major industry. The adventures of tintin, which was published in its pages since 1940, moves within le soir itself. See more ideas about batman comics, comic books and batman. Batman comics have proven to be popular since the 1940s. Batman is an ongoing american comic book series featuring the dc comics superhero batman.