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Batman Poster #21 FRAMED Detective Comics #31 (1939) by Bob Kane The

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Management number 4254210 Release Date 2025/08/12 List Price $76.00 Model Number 4254210
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You are purchasing the item pictured, framed.  Item will be bagged to protect from dust, packed in packing peanuts and boxed.  Just open box and hang it on the wall...makes a perfect gift!
When I created the Batman in 1939, Bob Kane once observed, he was a dark, brooding vigilante.   He was also darn near a supernatural figure, as this early Detective Comics cover shows.  To entice newsstand browsers to buy the title of Batman vs. the Vampire, Kane shows his hero looming spectrally over a gothic castle, swathed in mist and seemingly all-seeing.  It was such a powerful image that Neal Adams paid homage to it more than thirty years later on the equally dramatic cover of Batman #227 (December 1970).  The gothic vein in Batman mythology was a rich one, to be mined in future years by the likes of Adams, writers Denny O'Neil and Grant Morrison and artists Gene Colan, Dave McKean and Klaus Janson among others.  The red-hooded figure in the foreground is the Monk, the vampire of the story's


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