With the Detective Comics #31 Facsimile Edition coming in February, let’s celebrate!
Wanna hear something that’s cool? Here’s something that’s cool: DC in February will be releasing the Detective Comics #31 Facsimile Edition — one of six such reprints coming that month. (Click here for the skinny!)
Besides being the first appearances of the Batarang and the Batgyro (the original Batplane), it boasts one of comics’ greatest covers ever, by Bob Kane, no less.
The front has been homaged approximately 1,000,006 times but to save you the trouble of tracking them all down, we’re bringing you 13 favorites, right here.
Spooky!
Neal Adams
Neal Adams pencils, Brent Anderson inks
Neal Adams
Murphy Anderson
Gil Kane pencils, Tom Palmer inks
Matt Wagner
Robert Hack
Brian Stelfreeze
James Silvani
Alex Ross giclee. OK, so it’s not a cover…
Freddie Williams II
Bill Sienkiewicz
Our pal Bill Morrison!
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MORE
— Classic DETECTIVE COMICS #31 to Get FACSIMILE EDITION Release. Click here.
— DC’s Has SIX February FACSIMILE EDITIONS — Plus a HELLBLAZER SUPER POWERS Variant. Click here.
November 15, 2024
A rather interesting original cover of Detective Comics whose dark and foreboding character is, perhaps appropriately, cover-dated with the start of World War Two: September [2], 1939.
November 15, 2024
It’s very interesting how many “starts” to WWII there are. Depends on which historian you ask. Many consider the start in Europe with the false flag invasion of Poland by Germany on September 1. (The start of the war in the Pacific theater is even more muddled.) Some could argue the day after the Treaty of Versailles was signed.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
November 16, 2024
Excellent point…
Most historians have used September 1, 1939 but I personally think that’s a more Eurocentric view of WWII that tends to ignore the Far East prior to Pearl Harbor.
I recently read Richard Frank’s excellent “Tower of Skulls”…the 1st volume of a planned trilogy of the Pacific War. He argues World War 2 began in July 1937 with the Marco Polo Bridge incident in Beijing.
Others argue it began in September 1931 with Japan’s invasion of Manchuria.
November 16, 2024
Sean, thanks for the recommendation. I’m going to check it out. I’ll admit my interest has always been in the European theatre. I’ve solely neglected my pacific studies.
November 16, 2024
If you slowly scroll down from the Batman Dark Age cover, Batman’s eyes appear to blink at you. It’s funny the things you notice early in the morning.
November 16, 2024
I guess that’s particular to my laptop. I don’t see it on my desk computer. I’m not going crazy. Honest!