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BATMAN Nos. 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 530, 531, 532, 532, 533, 534, 535, 535, 536, 537, 538, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547 * Lot of 28 Comics Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: DC Comics] Date Published: 1995-1997 Description: Batman #s 523-547 (including two copies of #530, #532 and #535), lot of 26 issues. Generally Fine (6.0) or better. Covers, stories and art by Kelley Jones, Doug Moench, John Beatty, and Bill Sienkiewicz. Batman Officially Becomes a Non-Person: "The event, called Zero Hour: Crisis in Time, represented DC's attempt to clean up the previous decade's Crisis on Infinite Earths miniseries.... O'Neil and his writers saw the event as a chance to make some tweaks to Batman's history....The timeline-altering effects of Zero Hour did away with [Joe] Chill completely. In the new DC iniverse, Bruce Wayne did not know who murdered his parents.... The other adjustment O'Neil and his writers introduced was even more ambitious. In the new reality of the DC Universe, Batman's very existence was not public knowledge. Instead, he was considered an urban myth, a legend of Gotham's underworld.... Fans tossed around words like 'preposterous,' unworkable' and 'unrealistic.' But O'Neil was adamant, and the change stuck, becoming DC's official editorial policy for the next ten years." — Glen Weldon, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. Simon & Schuster: 2016, pp. 195-196. Note: At the buyer's discretion, this lot of raw comics can be submitted by PBA to CGC for grading and encapsulation with a "DC Universe Collection" provenance designation on the labels. To request this service, contact PBA's comic book department for terms and conditions. The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION comprises over 40,000 comic books, including a copy of every single DC comic published for retail sale from 1934 to 2014. The collection was amassed by British music producer Ian Levine over the course of several decades, and it's been hailed as the single greatest collecting accomplishment in comic book history. This collection served as the basis for former DC Comics president Paul Levitz's monumental book 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking, published by Taschen in 2017. PBA is proud to present this epic collection in a series of themed sales over the next two years. To join the DC Universe Collection notifications list, contact pba@pbagalleries.com. Enjoying PBA's Batman sale? A very small number of softcover and limited edition hardcover auction catalogues are available for purchase. The catalogues are fully illustrated, thoroughly researched, and make excellent reference works for Batman fans. To order a copy, or to inquire about consignment opportunities, contact Ivan Briggs, PBA's Director of Comics: ivan@pbagalleries.com. Item#: 360893 Headline: BATMAN #s 523-547 * Lot of 28 Comics