![]() ![]() The character was created in response to Detective Comics, Inc.’s desire to feature more superhero characters after the huge commercial success of the first comic book superhero, Superman, who appeared a year earlier in Action Comics #1. In 1939, Batman made his debut in Detective Comics #27. Without Detective Comics, there would be no DC Comics. (which eventually evolved into the present-day DC Comics) was born. Comics pioneer and businessman Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was broke, and needed money to publish his new detective anthology comic book he entered into a business partnership with pulp magazine publisher and distributor Harry Donenfeld and Donenfeld’s accountant, Jack Liebowitz, and the corporation Detective Comics, Inc. “Vin Sullivan conceived Detective Comics not as a brochure for newspaper syndicates but as a comic book equivalent to pulps, with self-contained stories in a single genre.” – Gerard Jones, Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Bookįirst published in 1937, Detective Comics was the foundation of one of today’s largest and most influential comics companies. ![]()
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