Holy Bat Kilt!

[Rob Wright]

A friend on another forum posted these for me.

They are from Detective Comics #198 August 1953.






Rob

[Prester John]

As a former comic book artist, all I can say is

THAT was tooooo good!

Where did you find that? I'm impressed!

[Rob Wright]

A friend in England found them somewhere and posted them for me.

Now I want to track down a copy of that issue for my collection.

Rob

[Iolaus]

A friend in England found them somewhere and posted them for me.

Now I want to track down a copy of that issue for my collection.

Rob

Good luck. The average price I've found seemed to arond $100, although I did find it as low as $60.

http://www.comicspriceguide.com/p-single.asp?cid=93331

DETECTIVE COMICS #198

GEM MINT $1,008.00
MINT $913.50
MINT - $837.90
NEAR MINT + $743.40
NEAR MINT $630.00
NEAR MINT - $548.10
V.FINE/N.MINT $472.50
VERY FINE + $390.60
VERY FINE $315.00
VERY FINE - $277.20
FINE/V.FINE $233.10
FINE + $195.30
FINE $157.50
FINE - $132.30
V.GOOD/FINE $113.40
VERY GOOD + $94.50
VERY GOOD $75.60
VERY GOOD - $69.30
GOOD/V.GOOD $63.00
GOOD + $56.70
GOOD $50.40
GOOD - $37.80
FAIR/GOOD $25.20
FAIR $12.60
POOR $6.30

[Rob Wright]

Those aren't bad prices. I have some that cost in $200 range.

Rob

[Jewddha]

As a lifelong fan of the Dark Knight... :grin:

[GreenDragon]

excellent find!

[Skweres]

to cool not to want for your own!

[MACKAY]

I am a Dark Knight fan from wayyyyyy back. Lets just say I am old enough to have been an impressionable young lad when I watched the original series and the movies back in the 60's.

It was awesome to see that cover as I had no idea that it existed. I am definitely going to try to get a copy. I have a framed copy of the original Detective Comics #1, "The Batman" hanging in my office. It was an anniversary present from my wife many years ago.

[Galloglaich]

Firstly, that is really cool! As a comic collector from way back, I would really like to have a copy of this issue.

I never knew about Mr. Wayne's Scottish ancestry. I don't normally think of "Wayne" as necessarily being Scottish, but as a researcher of Scottish names, it isn't ordinarily out of hand to think of it as having been Anglicized from something else (esp. as he is an American). The first name that comes to mind is the phonetically similar "Whan", which has been associated w/ the MacDonald and MacQueen families. Given that I don't take published sept lists as biblical truth, I don't find it out of the question to put a branch of this family in the sphere of MacLeod influence. Of course, this is speculation off the top of my head regarding a fictional character, so take it for what its worth.