Batman: The War Years 1939-1945: ¡Presentando más de 20 cuentos clásicos de Batman de la bóveda de cómics de DC! (Volume 1) (DC Comics: The War Years, 1)

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From the Publisher Today, Batman is probably the most famous and respected hero in the DC Comics pantheon. Until at least the mid-1960s, however—and perhaps until at least the 1980s—he definitely came in second at DC, behind a certain Man of Steel. And, when you consider how many super-heroes DC published in the 1940s—from the famous Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern down to relative obscurities like Tarantula and TNT (with Dan the Dyna-Mite)—that was no mean accomplishment. Of course, besides being faster than a speeding bullet, Superman had a head start. He burst upon the comic book scene in spring of 1938, Batman nearly a year later, the product of Bob Kane. DC editor Vin Sullivan, the same man who’d overseen the four-color debut of Superman, liked what Kane turned in, and Batman (well, “The Bat-Man”) became the cover feature of the 27th issue of DC’s flagship title, Detective Comics. The idea of a man without special powers assuming a secret identity and a costume and going out to do good went back at least to Zorro, a masked avenger who lived and fought in the long-ago days when the Spanish ruled California. He first appeared in pulp-magazine stories written by one Johnston McCulley twenty years earlier, in 1919. Zorro— which means “The Fox” in Spanish—was an instant hit, so much so that by the very next year silent screen star Douglas Fairbanks portrayed him in a hit movie titled The Mark of Zorro. More movies and movie serials and comic books and TV series would follow over the decades. By early 1940, Batman and Robin were up and running in no less than two hit comic books. Although Bob Kane had earlier had an artist assistant named Sheldon Moldoff, “Shelly” soon left to pursue his own destiny as the artist of other features for DC, especially Hawkman. So Kane hired a teenager he happened to meet—Jerry Robinson—to help him churn out what looked like a nice long run of Batman stories. They didn’t know the half of it. For, as the Second World War loomed ever larger on the horizon, Batman was about to become big business, comic-book style.

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