Batman Part II

The March 2011 issue of Detective Comics (873) is a milestone - the beginning of Detective Comics 75th year of continuous publication. No other comic is as old, with Action Comics next. It was the first non-reprint comic with stories from one genre.  And, of course, it is the "DC" in DC Comics.

Below is a facsimile from 2001 of the first issue originally published in March 1937. Also below is Detective Comics 326 (April 1964), the final issue before a complete makeover of Batman and Robin in Detective 327, the 25th anniversary issue of the first appearance of Batman in Detective 27. Fittingly the final old Batman is one of the many alien stories seen in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A few of these were reprinted in the Annuals and we'll see them in another post.