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DETECTIVE COMICS No. 225 * 1st Martian Manhunter Appearance Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: National Comics Publications, Inc.] Date Published: November, 1955 Description: CGC certified: VG (4.0). Cream to off-white pages. Grader notes: "Cover tanning; creasing to cover; light pieces out to cover; light spine splits to cover; staining to cover; tears to cover." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 341 graded copies (290 Universal, 3 Qualified, 48 Restored). GPAnalysis:. A 4.0 sold for $4080 in 7/23; a 3.5 sold for $2450 in 8/23; a 4.5 sold for $6000 in 2/22. Credits: Cover: Win Mortimer. Scripts: Edmond Hamilton, Jack Miller Joe Samachson (?), Jack Miller (?). Art: Sheldon Moldoff Charles Paris (inks), Ruben Moreira, Joe Certa. Overstreet: "1st app. Martian Manhunter (J'onn J'onzz); origin begins." Bat-cyclopedia: "In November 1955 Batman and Robin thwart an attempted jailbreak by JOHN LARROW.... an unscrupulous GOTHAM CITY businessman, indicted for fraud and jailed pending his trial, who hires a gang of criminals to break him out of prison by tunneling into his cell from a phony building excavation site adjoining the prison. With BATMAN out of town addressing a criminologists' convention in Pacific City and ROBIN committed to playing nursemaid to a succession of inept, substitute Batmen... Larrow's escape scheme seems almost certain to succeed." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 126, 261-262. Martian Manhunter debuts: Comics were in a death-dive in 1955 due to the censorious Comics Code, which was implemented in October 1954. Publishers, hoping superheroes would save them from the Code, introduced (or revived) a crop of costumed adventurers in 1954-1955, including Fighting American, the Human Torch, Captain America, Sub-Mariner, the Avenger, Strong Man, the Flame, Wonder Boy, and Blue Beetle. But readers rejected the new crop of heroes, and the only new superhero who managed to survive in the post-Code wasteland was DC's Martian Manhunter. "As one might expect, it was National who introduced the one enduring super hero of 1955: J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter. He debuted in the backup story 'The Strange Experiment of Dr. Erdel' in Detective Comics #225 (November 1955), replacing Captain Compass. Joseph Samachson wrote and Joe Certa drew the origin story. The Manhunter was an extra-terrestrial being from Mars who was brought to Earth by a teleportation beam. Its inventor, the elderly Dr. Erdel, died of heart failure before he could find a way to return the alien to his home planet. J'onzz decided to make the best of it, fighting crime on Earth while searching for a way to return to Mars." — Bill Schelly, American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1950s. TwoMorrows: 2013, p. 140. 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#: 360874 Headline: DETECTIVE COMICS #225 * 1st MARTIAN MANHUNTER