Detective Comics #66 The Crimes of Two-Face

Detective Comics (1937)

Issue Number: 66
Cover Date: August, 1942

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Cover by Jerry Robinson and George Roussos."The Adventure of the Shooting Spooks!" written by Murray Boltinoff, penciled and inked by Lee Harris. Reprinted in Superman #245.D.A. Harvey Kent (later to be changed to Harvey Dent) starts his case The State vs. "Boss" . The Batman taking the stand stating that shot Bookie Benton and got away. begins shouting that the Batman's lying . The D.A. then shows his proof' a 2 headed silver dollar with 's finger prints found at the crime scene. angered throws acid at the D.A. Despite the Batman's effort to deflect it, the acid disfigures half of the D.A.'s face.Dealing with rejection from people including his fiance, Harvey quickly loses patience waiting for his plastic surgeon. He takes the double headed silver dollar scars one side . He decides to flip the coin to decide his fate.If it lands on the clean side he will wait for the plastic surgeon if the scarred side comes up he will turn to a life of crime. The scarred side lands up.After committing a couple crimes, the coin then decides that they should rob twenty grand from the bond messenger from the Acme Bus Co. The Batman and Robin stop the crime and battle Two-face on a double-decker bus . A bullet meant for Robin ricochets and hits the bus driver. The bus out of control throws the Batman from it.The Robin manages to remove the driver from his seat and stop the bus .Batman and Robin soon discover Two-face's next plan to rob the Bijou Theater from a clue found on one of Two-faces thugs and confront him there.The Batman then chases him from the theater to his hideout. The Two-face gets the drop on the Batman holding him at gunpoint. He flips the coin to decide whether to kill the Batman but it lands on its edge on a crack between the floorboards. Two-face remains unable to kill the Batman staring at the coin in the floorboard at issues end. Continued in Detective Comics #68.

Air wave witnesses the murder of his boss, it is committed by men disguised as spooks, they escape, and Air wave end up being the prime suspect of the murder.

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Detective Comics (1937)

Publisher: DC Comics

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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)

Detective Comics #66 The Crimes of Two-Face

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Detective Comics (1937)

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