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DC Comics ·
Released Jan 1st, 1967
Detective Comics #359
The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl! (Batman, Robin and the debut of Barbara Gordon as Batgirl / written by Gardner FoxNine months before making her television premiere on "Batman" a new Batgirl appeared in the paged of Detective Comics and would become one of the more popular characters to emerge from the Silver Age of Comics. Yet the idea for the debut of Barbara Gordon, according to editor Julius Schwartz, was attributed to the television series executives' desires to have a character that would appeal to a female audience and for this character to originate in the comics.Hence, writer Gardner Fox and artist Carmine Infantino collarborated on "The Million Dollar debut of Batgirl!" Barbara Gordon was a brainy librarian with a brown belt in judo. She was nothing like her teenage predecessor,...
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36 pages
Cover Price
$0.12
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Prime Earth
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Barbara Gordon
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Batgirl takes center stage in this collection, which includes her 1967 debut and various stories through the '90s! Includes stories from DETECTIVE COMICS #359, 396, 400, 422, 423 and 424, BATMAN FAMILY #1 and 9, LEGENDS OF THE DC UNIVERSE #10 and...
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This amazing Batman best-of collection includes stories from DETECTIVE COMICS #27, 83, 211, 216, 327, 359, 395, 442, 474, 574, 633, 711, 757 and 821, BATMAN #1, 49, 181, 497, BATMAN #2 (THE NEW 52), WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #94, DC SPECIAL SERIES #21...
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For the first time, DC Comics collects Batman stories originally published between 1948 and 1966 that were adapted into specific episodes of the classic Batman TV series! Starring The Joker, The Penguin, The Riddler and Mr. Freeze (here called 'Mr....
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Celebrating the legacy of the Dark Knight, DETECTIVE COMICS: 80 YEARS OF BATMAN follows the best-selling ACTION COMICS: 80 YEARS OF SUPERMAN. Over the past eight decades, Batman has remained at the forefront of popular culture, which is in no small part...
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Because online voters demanded it, the first appearance of Barbara Gordon as the Silver Age Batgirl! This 1967 issue saw the future Oracle's debut as the "dominoed daredoll," joining Batman and Robin against the threat of Killer Moth. Also:...
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With Batman's 300th appearance in Detective Comics #327, editor Julius Schwartz decided to give Batman and Robin a "new look". This paperback is the third collection to reprint the first stories from Detective Comics and Batman with this...
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The 'new look' Batman made his debut in 1964, and featured artwork by Carmine Infantino's powerful design sense in these stories from 21 issues of DETECTIVE COMICS, plus THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #172, 183, 190 and 194, DC COMICS PRESENTS: BATMAN...
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