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Released Nov 18th, 2015
Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC
The stories that catapulted Batman to legendary status are collected here in a single, massive volume. These original stories from DETECTIVE COMICS #27-56 and BATMAN #1-7 include the origin of the Dark Knight, as well as the debuts of Robin, Commissioner Gordon, Professor Hugo Strange, The Joker, Catwoman and more!
Format
Hardcover
Page Count
822 pages
Cover Price
$75.00
UPC
1401260098
Distributor SKU
JUL150308
Creators
Collects/Reprints 37 Issues
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The Legend of the Batman: Who He Is and How He Came To Be - One night, while walking home from the theater, the Wayne family is robbed at gunpoint. When Thomas Wayne tries to intervene, he's shot in the chest. To stop her wailing, the criminal shoots... -
"The Joker Meets the Cat-Woman" -- Learning the Joker is hospitalized with wounds, the members of the Crime Syndicate make plans to rescue him to lead their mob again. But the Joker has planned a double-cross and the appearance of the Cat-Woman complicates...
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"The Strange Case of the Diabolical Puppet Master" -- The Caped Crusaders must stop the likes of the Puppet Master, who has set his sights on stealing the Voss Rifle, the Army's newly developed secret gun. But to do it, Batman must overcome the effects...
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Featuring the short stories "The Case of the Joker's Crime Circus," "Blackbeard's Crew and the Yacht Society," and "Victory for the Dynamic Duo"!
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The Batmobile's classic "bat-head" design debuts here alongside the Joker-centric "Riddle of the Missing Card" and an unbelievable journey into fantasy in "Book of Enchantment"!
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Tales of mobsters and madmen await you in "Murder on Parole," "The Clock Maker," and "The Secret of the Iron Jungle"! Plus, Batman enters the boxing ring in "Suicide Beat"!
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"Wanted: Practical Jokers" -- An advertisement appears on the newspapers about a man under the alias of A. Rekoj, summoning practical jokers for some kind of job. The applicants perform in front of the old man Rekoj and after a long casting...
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The legendary issue that introduced The Batman to the world.It starts with Commissioner Gordon chatting with his friend, Bruce Wayne. A call comes to Gordon from the police department, a man has been murdered and fingerprints on the knife shows that...
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Frenchy Blake's Jewel Gang (originally untitled): A string of jewel robberies baffle the police. Working on information from a stool pigeon, The "Bat-Man" ambushes a pair of thieves on a rooftop as they've just completed a job. After...
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Batman: "The Batman Meets Doctor Death" -- The villainous Doctor Death fears that the Batman will interfere with his planned extortion scheme, so he lays a trap for the Caped Crusader. Crimson Avenger: "The McNeal Kidnappers" -- After receiving ransom...
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1. The Return of Doctor Death (Batman) -- 2. Crime Never Pays -- 3. Oscar the Gumshoe -- 4. Finger of Doom (Buck Marshall) -- 5. The Dictator of the United States (Bart Regan) -- 6. The Old Man and the Kidnappers (Larry Steele) -- 7. Shadowed -- 8. The...
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Batman vs. The Vampire: Part 1 - While prowling the streets of New York City, Batman discovers his fiance Julie Madison attempting to kill a man! He intercedes, saving the man, and takes Julie home telling her to tell Bruce Wayne everything. On hearing...
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A collection of comics and stories, including "Batman Versus the Vampire (Part II)", featuring the Batman -- Reaching Hungary with Julie, the Batman runs into another vampire, who wants to make a deal with him: if she shows him the Monk's hideout, will...
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A collection of comics and stories, including "The Batman Wars Against the Dirigible of Doom", featuring the Batman -- After we learn how the Batman came into being as a crime fighter, Batman becomes alarmed at the sudden appearance of...
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A collection of comics and stories, including "Peril in Paris", featuring the Batman -- After Bruce Wayne runs into a man with no face, he learns of the sinister man responsible for it who wants the man's money and his sister. -- And "The Vacation",...
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A collection of comics and stories, including "The Case of the Ruby Idol", featuring the Batman -- The existence of a large ruby in the shape of a hideous figure leads to the death of one man and threatens the life of another, so the Batman enters the...
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A collection of comics and stories, including "Professor Hugo Strange", featuring the Batman -- After he witnesses the death of a G-Man and obtaining a clue as to the perpetrator, Hugo Strange, the Batman has to battle a deadly fog created...
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A collection of comics and stories, including -- "The Screaming House", featuring the Batman: The Batman gets lost on back roads. When he stops for directions he hears someone screaming in a nearby house. He finds a man being tortured....
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A collection of comics and stories, including -- "Robin the Boy Wonder", feat. Batman and Robin: When Boss Zucco's protection racket leads to the death of circus performers John and Mary Grayson, Batman helps their son,...
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A collection of comics and stories, including -- "The Murders of Clayface", featuring Batman and Robin: Learning that Julie has become a movie actress, Bruce and Dick head over to the studio to meet with her. However, a series of events...
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A collection of comics and stories, including -- "The Horde of the Green Dragon!", featuring the Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder: The kidnapping of two millionaires and the murder (with a hatchet) of a chauffeur leads the Batman into...
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A collection of comics and stories, including -- "The Masked Menace of the Boys' School", featuring Batman and Robin: The kidnapping of a youngster from a fashionable school for boys and the murder of its superintendent, leads the...
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A collection of comics and stories, including -- "The Case of the Prophetic Pictures", featuring Batman and Robin: A business man heavily in debt buys up pictures of an artist at cheap prices, then tries to increase their value by murdering...
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A collection of comics and stories, including -- "The Case of the City of Terror", featuring Batman and Robin: Bruce and Dick head out on a cross-country vacation to get away from crime, but when they arrive in a small town, they discover...
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A collection of comics and stories, including -- "The Land Behind the Light!", featuring Batman and Robin: Batman and Robin follow Dr. Marco into his invention, which hurls them into the 4th Dimension, which is inhabited by a race of...
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A collection of comics and stories, including -- "The Case of the Laughing Death!", featuring Batman and Robin: The Joker returns to polish off his enemies, starting with the D.A., then sets his sights on a $500,000 green jade Buddha....
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A collection of comics and stories, including: -- "Professor Strange's Fear Dust", featuring Batman and Robin: The Batman has to stop Professor Hugo Stange's evil plan to spray his "fear dust" all over America so that...
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Stories: Money Can't Buy Happiness - Bruce Wayne learns that his banker values money above family so he spies on the man's family as Batman and learns that both the man's children have fallen in with criminal elements. ? The Case Of The Ardent...
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Stories: The Secret Cavern - When a surveyor discovers a limestone cavern that runs under the nation's gold reserves, gangsters frame his daughter for murder in order to blackmail him into revealing the cave's entrance. Unfortunately for them,...
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Clayface Walks Again (Batman & Robin : 2nd Clayface story in Detective Comics) -- On a stormy night, Basil Karlo is transferred from prison to the state asylum when the prison ambulance runs off the road. Karlo escapes in the ensuing wreck, free...
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A collection of comics and stories, including -- "The Case of the Three Devils", featuring Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder: Batman and Robin are chasing three criminals dressed as devils, but they can't reach them because the trio...
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A collection of comics and stories, including -- "The Case of the Mystery Carnival", featuring Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder: Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are going on a car ride when they pull up to a Carnival and they decide...
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A collection of comics and stories, including -- "The Secret of the Jade Box", featuring Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder: An old curio collector, Mr. Potter, buys an antique jade box, and that same night he is murdered. His...
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A collection of comics and stories, including "Viola Vane", featuring Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder: Talking to his friend Jim Daly, Bruce Wayne learns that he thinks Gotham City is a hostile environment and Bruce starts telling...
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A collection of comics and stories, including "Hook Morgan and His Harbor Pirates", featuring Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder: A group of pirates steals some merchandise at the pier and after the Coast Guard try to stop their ship, they...
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A collection of comics and stories, including "The Brain Burglar", featuring Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder: The invention of a machine by a noted professor, that forces one to tell the truth, is snatched by an evil doctor...
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A collection of comics and stories, including "The Stone Idol", featuring Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder: Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are traveling across the country until they reach Ghost Gulch City and they decide to stay there...
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