Detective Comics (1937-2011) #27 by Bill Finger


Detective Comics (1937-2011) #27
Title : Detective Comics (1937-2011) #27
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ISBN : -
Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 8
Publication : First published May 17, 1939

The very first appearance of the Bat-Man in the six-page story "The Case of the Criminal Syndicate!" This issue also features the first appearances of Commissioner Gordon and the revelation of the Bat-Man's secret identity as Bruce Wayne.


Detective Comics (1937-2011) #27 Reviews


  • فؤاد

    ^_^
    اولین کمیک بتمن! اولین حضورش در مجموعه "کمیک های کارآگاهی" که بعدها به اختصار دی سی نامیده شد.
    طراحی شده توسط باب کین و بیل فینگر، با اقتباس از یک فیلم صامت وحشت، که مردی با لباس خفاشی نقش منفی داشت و قاتل داستان بود.
    و با الهام از زورو، مرد ثروتمندی که روزها خودش رو جوانی عیاش و بی دست و پا جا میزنه، تا شب ها با شنل و نقاب سیاه، عدالت رو اجرا کنه.
    و همین، و همه چیز. (:

  • Sophia

    The very first original story of the "Bat-Man"! It was a funny, short comic strip that allowed me to understand just how much Batman has grown and developed over the years.
    I liked reading this comic.

  • Gavin

    I read this earlier As freebie online, for Batman 75th Anniversary. I love that it is issue 27...that's my number! Also nice to see Bill Finger get credit instead of Bob Kane.

    For what it created, this book is invaluable.

  • Raghav Bhatia

    The very first appearance of Bat-Man ever. How is it?

    Underwhelming. Cartoonish.

    But it has a charm going for it. I'm glad he caught on, because today he is the GOAT.

  • Mayra Morales

    PUM 💥 PUNCH 👊crack

  • Brandon

    Giving it 5 stars only because it’s the debut of Batman. Other than that, it’s a middling comic. But it’s the first Batman comic so it automatically gets 5 stars.

  • Rayjan Koehler

    Awesome

    A classic Batman story i got to read free from amazon.

    Definitely worth reading this book from before my time, and i will definitely read this classic again and again!

  • Poria

    By Bill Finger and Bill Finger only.

  • Davidus1

    Really enjoyed this! Feels like reading history. Too many negative reviews of the older comics. Those reviews are naive. We owe gratitude to the early authors of these comics because we wouldn't enjoy the great modern comics without this history. Recommend and enjoy!

  • Brennan

    Batman's first appearance. Only like 10 pages if you wanna read online. I vibe with the purple gloves and the little ears.

  • Michelle Bacon

    Classic

    The original Batman comic book series by Bill Finger are short story panels of Batman helping Commissioner Gordon solve the crimes in the city of Gotham. The comics are old but still a joy to read after all these years.

  • Nina

    Wow, the original 1939 Batman was quite a dark, unattractive character, especially compared with the 1938 Superman. He's a rich aloof playboy, and there's no ambiguity that he's a vigilante with no loyalty to democratic justice. The victims he saves or avenges are his fellow wealthy chums; he has no interest in exposing the criminals to public justice; and no regrets when he kills a bad guy ("A fitting end for his kind."). Whereas 1938 Superman's battles are to expose and bring to justice villains whose victims are the public and the traditionally oppressed - the corrupt Senator, the wife-beating husband, the lynch mob, the exploitative landlord. The two original Superheroes really are completely different characters who stand for very different values.

  • Tanveer Malik

    It's obvious that Batman's first appearance isn't as solid as his later appearances. The writing is campy and the detective mystery itself isn't that interesting. Apart from curiosity about comics history, there isn't much reason to read this. I will say I do like the Batsuit in this. It's also nice to see Gordon has been Batman's supporting character since the beginning. It's also nice to see that Batman's role as a detective is still a part of his present day iterations. Case in point Matt Reeves The Batman. However this issue only gets legacy points

  • Roman Colombo

    I started the year with this for two reasons. One--I've never read it. But also, it's Batman's 80th year, so I want to fill my year up with Batman.

    Also, this was kind of brilliant. It's a 7-page story, very simple, and introduces a character with a lot of mystery and, for the time, counterintuitive to what superheroes were (bright and colorful). He is the antithesis to Superman. The first anti-superhero. And comics were never the same again.

  • Alayne

    3.5

    Es muy básica y simple la historia, además de bastante cortita, pero es la primer aparición de Batman, y me gustó.

  • Damián Lima

    Uno tiene que imaginarse la cosa en su contexto: año 1939, al borde de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un día común en Yanquilandia, un pibe se acerca al puesto de historietas, compra su revista favorita, la Detective Comics, que suele incluir historias de sus personajes preferidos, tales como Speed Saunders, Cosmo, Buck Marshall, Larry Steele, entre otros, y se encuentra, en este #27 de Detective Comics, con una novedad: la portada anuncia las aventuras de un nuevo héroe, the Batman, el hombre murciélago. ¿Qué habrá sentido ese niño? ¿Habrá intuido de alguna forma todo lo que significaba ese detective disfrazado de murciélago? ¿Habrá pensado: ¡esto es ridículo!, ¡esta payasada no va a durar ni dos números!, ¡no se puede ni comparar a mi favorito, Speed Saunders!? ¡Vaya uno a saber! Quisiera poder leer esta historieta con esos ojos vírgenes, descartando la infinita producción de cultura popular y masiva que desencadenó Batman, como si las innumerables historietas, las películas, las series, los juegos, los artículos coleccionables, y todo lo demás, nunca hubieran existido, como tampoco existen los de Speed Saunders. ¿Cómo sería esa lectura de esta primera aparición de Batman? ¿Qué produciría la historia de este vigilante encapuchado que se enfrenta a las trompadas a una banda de criminales de la industria química, y del cual se revela hacia el final que no es otro que Bruce Wayne, amigo y confidente del Comisionado Gordon? Sea como fuera, ni sus creadores, ni los impresores de Detective Comics, ni ese pibe que compra la revista en el puestito y la lee secretamente en su cuarto, se imaginarían el fenómeno cultural en el que se iba a transformar ese hombre disfrazado de murciélago, ese primer Bat-Man.

  • David Caldwell

    The first "Bat-Man" story

    Yes, they did use quotation marks around his name every time in this story. I enjoyed seeing how Batman has changed over the years. Bruce Wayne and Commissioner Gordon are sitting around smoking when a call comes in about a murder. The Commissioner asks Bruce if he wants to tag along to the crime scene. Batman is much simpler in his approach to things. Not ropes to swing on, he uses a common handkerchief to clog a pipe, and a wrench to smash his way out of a trap. I am still confused why they would a man sized globe to gas guinea pigs. Finally, Batman just says the bad guy deserved the fate of falling into a vat of acid. Still, it was fun seeing the first appearance of Batman.

  • Jason

    Detective Comics #27
    "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate"

    Ohhh yeah, the beginning of The Bat-Man, and EEESH what is this first design, hooof its rough!




    The story is pretty simple, someone is going around murdering ex business partners and surprise, its one of the other partners! The Bat-Man solves this one pretty quick.




    Overall a meh story, he has lot to live up to with the type of Superman stories we got already at this point in 1939.

  • Joni

    Es muy difícil no contextualizar este cómic fundamental para la historia del noveno arte. En un tiempo donde las publicaciones costaban diez centavos de dolar y traían varias historias de distintos personajes, fijos o rotando, casi siempre de tinte detectivesco o sheriff versus forajidos, sin pudor a la hora de retratar a chinos y rusos como el origen de todo mal.
    Visto hoy la mayoría son historias cutres mal dibujadas.

    Pero Contemplando que se apuntaba a infantes de hace casi un siglo atrás, entonces es lógico el impacto causado y la relevancia que cobró con el tiempo.
    Interesante como mínimo.

  • Ivonne Cruz

    Es sorprendente como un par de páginas contienen la esencia completa de Batman. Ya hay un Batimóvil (aunque un carro bastante normal), las desapariciones repentinas del murciélago, Bruce Wayne (su alter ego y no al revés) siendo aburrido y bastante promedio. No es una historia complicada ni con demasiadas vueltas, pero el espíritu de aventura es innegable y ratifica que antes de la tecnología, el dinero y las habilidades para pelear, el superpoder de Batman siempre ha sido ser un detective.

    Ahhh, me voy a divertir mucho con esta colección. 💜

  • Daniel

    So weird but a product of its time.

    Paraphrase of the beginning: "Someone's been murdered. How exciting! Want to come along?" "Sure, Jim. Maybe it'll help with my boredom."

    I don't know if it was common for a police commissioner to bring along friends to crime scenes but there it was. Fortunately, "Bat-Man" (written that way, including quotation marks) was on the job, solved the murder and laughed when the perpetrator died.

    It's interesting for its historical value but, in my opinion, wasn’t a good story.

  • Terry

    First Batman story, “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate.”

    A little dated by comparison to todays incarnation of Batman, but it all started with this story. What’s not to love. Bad guys, murderous plots, a disinterested Bruce Wayne, Commissioner Gordon at peak Gordon, and Batman punching a dude into a vat of chemicals. It’s all chef’s kiss really. Totally enjoy going back and reading Batman stories from the forties and fifties, we’ve come a long way. It’s nice to read a throwback and see how this world and it’s characters evolved.

  • Javi

    Qué mal han envejecido los cómics, incluso los que tienen 30-40 años, pero estos aún más. Sorprende, y más en comparación a la novela, que algunas de milenios siguen siendo obras maestras a día de hoy. Todas las historias son planas y repetitivas, como hechas por una plantilla. Lo único destacable, el inicio de Batman y ver otras creaciones de los padres de Superman como Spy o Slam Bradley, que no son gran cosa.

  • Kassy

    I've been a massive Batman fan for years, but I've never actually went looking for his original comic appearance. Finally! And it was just I expected: moody, classic, and more violent than what current Batman fans could expect. Batman has no regard for lives of his foes, making his earlier appearances much different than what more modern comic portrayals show. But a classic is a classic and this is where it all started!

  • HatBett23

    These pre-Comics Code Batman stories are MUCH better than the stories from the Silver Age. Batman's first appearance has a murder! I've spent a lot of time reading the issues from the '50s - there's no comparison of how much more enjoyable this story is because the stakes are substantial.

    Also, the rest of the stories in this issue are decent too. There's plenty of the racism you'd expect from something written over 80 years ago.