Hardcover collection commemorating the 80th anniversary of Batman and the publication of Detective Comics #1000. This collection features notable stories starring Batman and other characters published in Detective Comics (Volume 1) and Detective Comics (Volume 2) from 1938 to 2014.
Issues
- Detective Comics #20: "Block Buster" (First appearance of the Crimson Avenger)
- Detective Comics #27: "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" (First appearance of Batman); "The Murder on Vacation" (Slam Bradley story)
- Detective Comics #38: "Robin, the Boy Wonder!" (First appearance of Robin)
- Detective Comics #60: "The Case of the Missing Evidence!" (First appearance of Air Wave)
- Detective Comics #64: "The Commandos Are Coming" (First appearance of the Boy Commandos)
- Detective Comics #66: "The Crimes of Two-Face!" (First appearance of Two-Face)
- Detective Comics #140: "The Riddler!" (First appearance of the Riddler)
- Detective Comics #151: "The Origin of Pow-Wow Smith!" (First appearance of Pow-Wow Smith)
- Detective Comics #153: "The Land of Lost Years!" (First appearance of Roy Raymond)
- Detective Comics #225: "The Strange Experiment of Dr. Erdel" (First appearance of the Martian Manhunter)
- Detective Comics #233: "The Bat-Woman" (First appearance of Batwoman)
- Detective Comics #267: "Batman Meets Bat-Mite" (First appearance of Bat-Mite)
- Detective Comics #298: "The Challenge of Clay-Face" (First appearance of the second Clayface (Matt Hagen))
- Detective Comics #327: "Mystery of the Menacing Mask!" (Beginning of Batman's "New Look" era)
- Detective Comics #359: "The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl" (First appearance of Batgirl)
- Detective Comics #400: "Challenge of the Man-Bat" (First appearance of Man-Bat)
- Detective Comics #437: "The Himalayan Incident" (Revival of Manhunter (Paul Kirk))
- Detective Comics #443: "Gotterdammerung" (Batman/Manhunter team-up)
- Detective Comics #457: "There Is No Hope in Crime Alley" (First appearance of Leslie Thompkins)
- Detective Comics #474: "The Deadshot Ricochet!" (Revival of Deadshot)
- Detective Comics #482: "Bat-Mite's New York Adventure!" (Bat-Mite solo story)
- Detective Comics #500: "To Kill a Legend" (Parallel-Earth Batman story)
- Detective Comics #567: "The Night of Thanks, But No Thanks!" (Batman story written by Harlan Ellison)
- Detective Comics #742: "The Honored Dead" (Batman story featuring Commissioner Gordon mourning his late wife)
- Detective Comics (Volume 2) #27: "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate" (New 52-era retelling of the first Batman story); "Twenty-Seven" (Future-Batman story)
Notes
- Contains an introduction by Dan DiDio; a black & white drawing of Batman by Jim Lee; a note by Paul Levitz; a foreword by American senator Patrick Leahy; essays by Anthony Tollin, Glen David Gold, San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman, Dennis O'Neil, Cory Doctorow and Neil Gaiman.
- The intellectual property specialist Dale Cendali provides art drawn by Lew Sayre Schwartz and describes how she came upon it.
- The collection also contains highlights of covers of Detective Comics issues from various eras and biographies of people who have worked on the comics.
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