Detective Comics #68 The Man Who Led A Double Life!

Detective Comics (1937)

Issue Number: 68
Cover Date: October, 1942

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(Continued from Detective Comics #66) With the silver dollar standing on edge between the floorboards Two-Face cannot decide between turning himself in or shooting the Batman. So he scoops up the coin, knowing that fate would provide him an answer, and still refusing to take action.. Suddenly a police officer comes through the door and shoots Two Face. He springs back to life and knocks the Batman and the police officer for a loop and escapes. Two-Face's silver dollar coin that was placed in his breast pocket blocked the bullet, saving his life.

Soon Two-Face kidnaps millionaire Henry Logan demanding 200,000 dollars. The Batman and Robin along with the Commissioner Gordon find out that Two Face really kidnapped his 's double. Harvey Kent was entrusted with the knowledge of the double. So everyone realizes Two-Face has the double. Batman and Robin disguise themselves as and his wife to deliver the money. When they arrive at an old ram-shackled barn, Two-Face realizes right away that doesn't have a wife as the Batman and Robin explode onto the scene. A fight ensues. Soon Robin is covered in an "avalanche of hay". Two-Face tries to escape by motorcycle only to have the Batman stop him. Two-Face strikes the Batman rendering him unconscious.

But amid all the criminal endeavors, Two-Face longs to reunite with his fiancee, Gilda, and have a normal life. Days later, a seemingly-healed, seemingly-sane Harvey Kent shows up at her doorstep, and the two share candlelight dinner where she pleads for him to turn himself in, and he asks if she'd be willing to wait for him. Before she can answer, the candle heat melts the wax makeup Kent used, revealing his true scars and true self. Disappointed at his deceit, Gilda fears that Kent actually enjoys being wicked, and before he can explain, Batman breaks in and struggles with Two-Face. Feeling betrayed by Gilda, Kent escapes once again and burns down the Masks and Makeup storefront where he bought the wax mask. With his father now penniless, the shopkeeper's son uses makeup to help Batman and Robin bring Two-Face to justice.

The Batman and Robin soon put on a baseball benefit and raise over 50,000 dollars. Two-Face and his boys come to the stadium to steal the fund raisers money only to be defeated by the Batman and Robin.

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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.

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Detective Comics #68 The Man Who Led A Double Life!

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Detective Comics (1937)

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