The Batman Chronicles #19 by Steve Englehart

Art by Win Mortimer.ĭetective Comics #27 (March 1939 with a printed date of May 1939) marked the first appearance of Batman.

Batman / Bruce Wayne Ĭover of Detective Comics #140 (October 1948), the first appearance of the Riddler. Įarly issues of the series have been criticized for their racism and xenophobia. The Crimson Avenger debuted in issue #20 (October 1938). Its first editor, Vin Sullivan, also drew the debut issue's cover. Originally an anthology comic, in the manner of the times, Detective Comics #1 (March 1937) featured stories in the ' hard-boiled detective' genre, with such stars as Ching Lung (a Fu Manchu-style ' Yellow Peril' villain) Slam Bradley (created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster before their character Superman saw print two years later) and Speed Saunders, among others. Wheeler-Nicholson was forced out a year later. Liebowitz, Donenfeld's accountant, listed as owners. Wheeler-Nicholson took Donenfeld on as a partner in order to publish Detective Comics #1 through the newly formed Detective Comics, Inc., with Wheeler-Nicholson and Jack S. Wheeler-Nicholson was in debt to printing-plant owner and magazine distributor Harry Donenfeld, who was, as well, a pulp-magazine publisher and a principal in the magazine distributorship Independent News. The third and final title published under his aegis would be Detective Comics, advertised with a cover illustration dated December 1936, but eventually premiering three months later, with a March 1937 cover date. His second effort, New Comics #1, would be retitled twice to become Adventure Comics, another seminal series that ran for decades until issue #503 in 1983, and was later revived in 2009.

1935), colloquially called New Fun Comics #1 and the first such early comic book to contain all-original content, rather than a mix of newspaper comic strips and comic-strip-style new material. Wheeler-Nicholson's first two titles were the landmark New Fun: The Big Comic-Magazine #1 ( cover-dated Feb. Art by Vin Sullivan.ĭetective Comics was the final publication of the entrepreneur Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, whose comics company, National Allied Publications, would evolve into DC Comics, one of the world's two largest comic book publishers, though long after its founder had left it.

The Batman Chronicles #19 by Steve Englehart