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Detective Comics #410 A Vow from the Grave! ; Battle of the Three 'M's

Detective Comics (1937)

Issue Number: 410
Cover Date: April, 1971

Batman captures Kano Wiggins and also helps solve the murder of a circus sideshow performer. "A Vow from the Grave" is written by Denny O'Neil and illustrated by Neal Adams and Dick Giordano. On this rainy night we find Kano Wiggins.... has escaped death ...

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Batman captures Kano Wiggins and also helps solve the murder of a circus sideshow performer.

"A Vow from the Grave" is written by Denny O'Neil and illustrated by Neal Adams and Dick Giordano. On this rainy night we find Kano Wiggins.... has escaped death row from a large eastern prison with the Batman pursuing him. Crossing a rope bridge over a canyon the fleeing escapee decides to cut the bridge leaving the Batman to fall into the canyon. The Batman leaps for a sturdy looking branch on the canyon wall. As he climbs to the top ,Kano is waiting wielding his knife.The Batman quickly takes out Kano then suddenly is slammed in the back of his head .When the Batman gets his bearings back he sees a "nightmarish giant"ready to attack again. The Batman avoiding the giant 's grasp,puts him in a sleeper hold and renders him unconcious.A group of people approach the Batman. they turn out to be stranded side show people. They introduce themselves as Charley Bones ,Maud the fat woman, Skippy the mute seal boy and Goliath the muscle man .The Batman warns them to go find somewhere safe that there is a killer running loose. After hunting for an hour the Batman follows the killers trail to a ghost town. Inside the town a scream comes one of the buildings. The Batman follows the scream and finds the side show people surrounding Charley Bones who is hung by the neck from the rafters.The Batman notices that Flippy has scratched something in the dust on the floor . Hearing a vehicle start up the Batman races to the sound of the engine. Running through the open back doors of the starting truck , the Batman warns Kano to surrender quietly. Kano refuses and the Batman sends him flying through the windshield. The Batman returns to the murder scene with Kano bound dropping him onto the floor,asking Maud where Goliath and Skippy are.The Batman tells Maud that Kano is not the killer of Charley Bones and that Goliath is. Two floors above ,Goliath throws a large piece of lumber at them . The Batman moves them both out of harms way and pursues Goliath.On the third floor of the building he finds Goliath on a balcony holding Flippy three stories above the ground. Goliath warns Batman not to come forward and jump to his death or he will drop Flippy.The Batman vows "I can t let you destroy an innocent bystander while I'm alive call it a vow from the grave" and then jumps seemingly to death. Goliath drops Skippy anyway to have Maud for himself. The Batman catches Skippy as he falls,saving him. As Goliath is rejected later by Maud ,The Batman comes through the front door. There as the Batman passes Kano on the floor, Kano comes to life kicking the air out of the Batman's lungs. Goliath gets the Batman in a hold and tries to break his neck. Quickly Maud bites Goliaths arm releasing the Batman from his grip.The Batman quickly takes out Goliath. The Batman brings his two captives to the authorities turning them in.

Detective Comics (1937)

Publisher: DC Comics

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Detective Comics is a DC Comics monthly American Comic Book published since 1937, focusing on detective stories. One of DC's signature titles; the title featured early talents such as Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Bob Kane, Sheldon Moldoff, Jerry Robinson and Bill Finger. Detective characters, such as Slam Bradley and the Crimson Avenger, were featured monthly in its early days. As of issue # 27, the title became best known for the introduction of the Superhero Detective, The Batman, who eventually became the main feature. The title has also featured the debuts of Dick Grayson, James Gordon and many of Batman's villains and supporting cast, as well as other DC characters.

For Post Flashpoint volume 2, refer to Detective Comics.Origin

Detective Comics was the brainchild of National Allied Publication's owner, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. His first two titles were called New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 and New Comics #1. New Fun, often referred as New Fun Comics #1, was published in February 1935. It became the first comic to contain all-original material, instead of combining newspaper comic strips and the comic-strip style material. New Comics #1, also published in 1935, was retitled twice to become Adventure Comics. Adventure Comics was revived in 2009, by Geof Johns, using Conner Kent's Superboy incarnation as the main story, and the Legion of Superheroes as the back story.

Wheeler-Nicholson, published a third and final title, named Detective Comics. It was scheduled and advertised to be published on December 1936, however, it premiered on March 1937. During that year, he became indebted to Harry Donenfeld, who was a printing-plant and magazine publisher. This forced Wheeler-Nicholson to take Donenfeld on as a partner so that he could publish Detective Comics #1, through a new publishing company, called Detective Comics, Inc. The first owners of Detective Comics, Inc. were Wheeler-Nicholson and Harry Donenfeld's accountant, Larry Liebowitz. Liebowitz and Donenfeld would later force Wheeler-Nicholson out a year later.

Detective Comics #1 featured stories using the hard-boiled detective genre, which was popular around that time. Some of the better known characters in this publication were Slam Bradley, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster before they created the Superman character, Ching Lung, an asian character who was a villain; and Speed Saunders along with other characters. The debut cover was created by Vin Sullivan, who was the publication's first editor.

Issue #27 of Detective Comics is historically famous because this was the first appearance of Batman, then known as "The Bat-Man", as a comic book character. This issue was published in May 1939. Batman (created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger), will later become the star of the publication. His sidekick, Robin (created by Jerry Robinson), was introduced in issue #38, published in 1940. The publication also had several back stories, including "The Strange Experiment of Dr. Erdell", featured in issue #225, which introduced Martian Manhunter as a character.

In the 1970s and the early part of the 1980s, the publication showed an expanded format which featured solo adventures of some members of the Batman Family like "Robin: The Teen Wonder" and "Batgirl". It also featured "Tales of Gotham City", which told stories of the ordinary citizens of the famous fictional city. Due to the declining sales of Detective Comics in this period, DC was heavily considering canceling its namesake franchise in place of the much more popular Batman Family in a wave of cancellations called the DC Implosion. However, over the protestations of the comic creators, this series was saved and the other was merged into this one, which resulted in a format change for the series from issue #481 onwards.

In Bruce Wayne's absence, Batwoman was featured in Detective comics between issues #854-863. Currently, the book stars Dick Grayson as Batman, as well as Commissioner James Gordon.

Collected EditionsClassic Batman and ArchivedBatman: A Celebration of 75 Years (#27, 83, 211, 216, 327, 359, 395, 442, 474, 574, 633, 711, 757 and 821)Issues #27-50 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 1.Issues #51-70 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 2.The Joker: A Celebration of 75 Years (#64, 168, 180, 475, 476, 726, 741, 826)Batman Arkham: Two-Face (#66, 68, 80 & 513)Issues #71-86 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 3.Boy Commandos by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby Volume Two (#74-83 & 85)Issues #87-102 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 4.Issues #103-119 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 5.Issues #120-135 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 6.Issues #136-154 are collected in Batman Archives, Vol. 7.Batman: The TV Stories (#140, 230, 341, 346, 359)Batman: Arkham - The Riddler (#140, 142, 377, 822 & 837)Batman: The Dynamic Duo Archives, Vol. 1 (#327-333)Batman: The Dynamic Duo Archives, Vol. 2 (#334-339)

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Detective Comics #410 A Vow from the Grave! ; Battle of the Three 'M's

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Detective Comics (1937)

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