The Silver Age was like the Wild West for the comic book industry. Every week, readers picked up an issue of Batman or ...

Bartholomew has been in business for 18 years, but he's never seen a collection of comic books like the one he discovered recently — a group of early Batman, Detective Comics, and others that ...

Created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane in 1939’s Detective Comics #27, Batman was one of many various plays on the tropes of pulp fiction heroes, which were arguably a dime a dozen in media during ...

As seen in: Detective Comics #140 (1948) Riddler became the last of the major Golden Age Batman villains to be introduced in Detective Comics. Here readers encountered a villain clever enough to ...

Though the superhero comics were the top sellers, other genres emerged during the Golden Age. Horror and crime were popular, notably The Spirit, a masked detective who captured villains and ...

He wore a standard belt with a round buckle. 1939: Detective Comic No. 30 "Golden Age Batman" – The Caped Crusader has sharper, pointier ears, and more durable wings. 1940: Detective Comic No ...

That’s why Reeves should treat The Batman as if it were a film noir from Hollywood’s Golden Age ... more Batman in his detective mode than we've seen in the films. The comics have a history ...

Though the superhero comics were the top sellers, other genres emerged during the Golden Age. Horror and crime were popular, notably The Spirit, a masked detective who captured villains and ...