![]() ![]() The son claims he didn’t do it, and to lend credence to this claim, a call comes from Crane, one of Lambert’s three partners, explaining that both of them had threats made against their lives. Chemical syndicate head Lambert is dead, and the most likely suspect is his son. We open, of course, with “The Case of the Criminal Syndicate.” Police Commissioner Gordon is chilling with his young socialite friend Bruce Wayne, talking about rumors of a mysterious “Bat-Man.” Gordon is informed of a murder among the wealthy citizens of the city, and Bruce tags along as he hasn’t got anything better to do. ![]() ![]() I believe this was the first of this collector’s bait format, thus the “introductory price.” This “Archives” edition is a hardbound full-cover reprint of the Batman stories from Detective Comics #37-50. But both, of course, dedicated to justice in their own ways. As the Shadow was to Doc Savage, so Batman was to Superman, a skilled man operating in the shadows, rather than a superhuman operating in the light of day. The kernel of the idea was proposed by artist Bob Kane, and fleshed out by writer Bill Finger, with a first appearance in Detective Comics #37. Batman was the second full-fledged superhero published by National Periodicals, soon to be better known as DC. ![]()
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