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Matt Hawes
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BATMAN turned 75 today!
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Sam Houston
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Peter Martin
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Probably my favourite superhero. Scarily, the 50th anniversary does not seem that long ago. That was when DC introduced variant covers for the first issue of Legends of the Dark Knight and I still consider variant covers a new-fangled gimmick.
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Joe Zhang
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Happy Birthday, big guy.
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John Byrne
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How was this date calculated?
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Trevor Smith
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According to an article from CNET:
"Batman first made his debut in Detective Comics No. 27 on
March 30, 1939"
As I quote the article, I find myself annoyed by the
redundancy of "first made his debut". Anyway, full
article HERE.
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John Byrne
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Odd -- I thought the cover dates were FOUR months ahead of release. This modifies my calculation on when some comics I read as a kid came out.
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Robbie Parry
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Happy Birthday to Batman.
The dates are often tough to work out. I told a friend a while back that a certain comic was fifty years old, but it turned out I was going by cover date rather than in sale date and a "historian" in the conversation said something like, "But I remember it being on sale earlier than that."
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Shaun Barry
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I'm a little confused on the supposed March 30th street date as well... granted, the issue was from 1939 (so maybe shipping standards changed shortly thereafter), but there are plenty of examples of 1940s DC comic books where there are Christmas-themed covers, but with "March" printed on the cover, indicating the "four months ahead" gap of the times.
Regardless, Happy 75th to one of the great fictional characters of the 20th century (and beyond!).
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Vinny Valenti
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"Odd -- I thought the cover dates were FOUR months ahead of release."
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I had read that FF#1 with a November cover date hit the newsstands in
August 1961. That jibes with my recollection during the 80's - comics would
hit the newsstands 3 months before cover date, and 4 months before cover
date for the direct-market shops. (That's how I took advantage of the Death
of Robin comic selling out quickly in direct-market stores - I waited a month
for the newsstand edition to come out - that's probably why the UPC-laden
versions were generally considered to be less valuable).
If this article is correct, then the formula changed sometime between '39 and
'61.
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John Byrne
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I took a quick look at one that is actually easy to check. Paul Kupperberg's birthday is in June, and he was delighted, as a kid, when THE FLASH issue containing "The Flash of Two Worlds" came out. The newspaper that the Flash checks has the same date as PK's birthday. When Paul asked Julie Schwartz why that date was picked, Julie said it was probably the day the book came out. The issue is cover dated September, so that would put it three months ahead of shipping. Four, if you count June.Now, I have no information on the policy of dating covers ahead changing until Marvel did it officially in the 80s, making the cover date the same as the release date. I'm gonna ask around!
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John Byrne
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Well, I just counted thru the entire run of DETECTIVE COMICS up to the issue that came out the same month as that FLASH*, and the cover date vs ship date is the same all the way back. So unless Julie was mistaken about the ship date on FLASH, DETECTIVE 27 would have hit the stands in February 1939, not March.(Feb being a short month, seems like there is a possibility that if DETECTIVE was a fourth week ship book, it might have come out in early March, but not the end of the month.) ––––––––––– * A task made considerably easier by DETECTIVE having been a monthly, right from the start, so I didn't have to calculate twice-quarterly dates, as I would have on, say, SUPERMAN or BATMAN.
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