Issue Description

 

Fan favorite artist Dustin Nguyen (SUPERMAN/BATMAN) joins Paul Dini on DETECTIVE COMICS as new regular penciler! Still haunted by the specter of Ra's Al Ghul, Batman returns to Gotham to face a new threat in the form of The Globe, a map-obsessed mastermind who charts his crimes with deadly accuracy.

Spoilers

Batman finds himself facing off another theme-obsessed villain. This time it maps. When a jewel-covered globe was stolen from the British Museum, Batman seeks to retrieve it. He is surprised to find the Globe's place without any security. He is then grabbed from behind by the very large and strong Globe.

The fight is short-lived as Batman easily knocks him out. Batman then finds that he is not alone. Watching is Ra's al Ghul and a handful of his Assassins. Batman is surprised to see him again so soon. He simply thanks Batman for reclaiming his globe. Batman says it belongs to the British Museum but Ra's shows him a receipt for the commission signed by Peter Carl Faberge from 1901. Batman tosses it at him and an assassin quickly catches it.

Ra's is disappointed that Batman tosses it over as if it were meaningless. He then reveals a secret way to open it revealing the locations of all the Lazarus Pits known on Earth. Batman tells him he knew if he treated it so lightly, Ra's would soon gloat about its true value and snaps a picture to study later at his leisure.

Ra's al Ghul now shows his anger with him over everything that has recently happened between them. He blames him for causing Talia and Damian to be estranged and the "death" of the White Ghost. He also tells him that he decided to set up a new base of operations there in Gotham. The Assassins attack. Batman gets away.

When Batman eventually makes his way back to the Batcave, he has a discussion with Alfred. He feels that the way Ra's acted that night might indicate that perhaps there still exists a trace of the White Ghost in the body. All bits of him should have been erased when Ra's took over but it seems that the White Ghost's need to impress his father is subconsciously still a factor.

Batman easily finds out where Ra's al Ghul is staying using a similar method that Ra's used to uncover Batman's identity. He looked at which billionaire purchases resulted in large acquisitions in Gotham. When Batman reveals himself to Ra's, it is seen that he has taken out Abu and all of Ra's al Ghul's guards. Batman says he doesn't want to be interrupted. Batman's not happy that Ra's has the nerve to move into his city and had his agents attack his home. He tells him it's over forever and kicks him out the window.

Later a "guard" arrives at Arkham Asylum delivering a "Terry Gene Kase." He tells Arkham that he has multiple personality disorder. His files say he's claimed to be Superman, Jesus, and even the "billionaire leader of a cabal of international assassins." He is being kept heavily sedated. It is Batman's hopes that he will rot there for decades.

Detective Comics (1937)

Publisher

DC Comics

Volume Description

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)

see also The Batman Chronicles.

Modern BatmanTales of the Batman: Len Wein (#408, #444-448, #466, #478-479, #500 and #514)Strange Apparitions (#469-476, 478-479)Year Two: Fear the Reaper (#575-578)Legends of the Dark Knight: Norm Breyfogle Volume 1 (#579, 582-594 and 601-607)Blind Justice (#598-600)Knightfall, Vol. 1 (#659-666)Knightfall, Vol. 2 (#667-675)Knightfall, Vol. 3 (#676-677)Batman: Road To No Man's Land (#722-726)Evolution (#743-750)Batman: Bruce Wayne - Murderer? (#766-770)Batman: Bruce Wayne - Fugitive (#771-775)Batman: War Games Book One (New Edition) (#790-797)City of Crime (#800-808, #811-814)Detective (#821-826)Tales of the Batman: J.H. Williams III (#821)Death and the City (#827-834)Private Casebook (#840-845)Heart of Hush (#846-850)Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? (#853)Batman Unwrapped by Andy Kubert (#853)Impostors (#867-870)The Black Mirror (#871-881)BatwomanElegy (#854-860)Showcase PresentsBatmanBatgirlRobin, The Boy WonderMartian ManhunterElongated ManOtherManhunter: The Special Edition (#437-443)The Question: Pipeline (#854-865)

Please first Sign In before leaving a review.

Status: Not in Collection