As a celebration of the 50th birthday of Batman, this hardcover book collects stories from 50 years of the Dark Knight.
Issues
This hardcover book reprints stories from the following issues:
- Detective Comics #31 (Batman Versus the Vampire (Part I) from September, 1939);
- Detective Comics #32 (Batman Versus the Vampire (Part II) from October, 1939);
- Batman #1 (The Giants of Hugo Strange, reprinted here as Dr. Hugo Strange and the Mutant Monsters from March, 1940);
- Batman #25 (Knights of Knavery from October, 1944);
- Batman #47 (The Origin of the Batman! from June, 1948);
- Batman #61 (The Birth of Batplane II! from October, 1950);
- Star-Spangled Comics #124 (Operation 'Escape' from January, 1952);
- Detective Comics #211 (The Jungle Cat Queen! from September, 1954);
- Detective Comics #235 (The First Batman from September, 1956);
- World's Finest #94 (The Origin of the Superman-Batman Team from June, 1958);
- Batman #156 (Robin Dies at Dawn from June, 1963);
- Detective Comics #345 (The Blockbuster Invasion of Gotham City! from November, 1965);
- Detective Comics #404 (Ghost of the Killer Skies! from October, 1970);
- Batman #234 (Half an Evil from August, 1971);
- Detective Comics #429 (Man-Bat Over Vegas! from November, 1972);
- Batman #250 (The Batman Nobody Knows! from July, 1973);
- Detective Comics #437 (Deathmask from November, 1973);
- Detective Comics #442 (Death Flies the Haunted Sky! from September, 1974);
- Detective Comics #457 (There Is No Hope In Crime Alley! from March, 1976);
- DC Special Series #15 (Death Strikes at Midnight and Three from June, 1978);
- Detective Comics #474 (The Deadshot Ricochet from December, 1977);
- Detective Comics #482 (Bat-Mite's New York Adventure from March, 1979);
- Batman #312 (A Caper a Day Keeps the Batman at Bay! from June, 1979);
- Detective Comics #500 (To Kill a Legend from March, 1981);
- The Brave and the Bold #197 (The Autobiography of Bruce Wayne! from April, 1983).
This hardcover book also collects the story 1001 Umbrellas of The Penguin which was originally presented in the Sunday newspapers from February to October, 1946.
Notes
- This hardcover book has an introduction by Dick Giordano under the title Growing Up with the Greatest.
- This hardcover also has a foreword by Mike Gold.
- The hardcover book ends with end notes by Robert Greenberger and biographies by Mark Waid.