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DETECTIVE COMICS No. 32 Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: October, 1939 Description: CGC certified: Poor (0.5). Purple label: Restored (C-4). Off-white pages. Grader notes: "Wrong back cover; TOP & BOTTOM EDGE OF COVER TRIMMED; color touch on right top & left center & right center front cover; heavy tape cover; pieces added cover C-4." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 65 graded copies (50 Universal, 1 Qualified, 1 Signature Series, 13 Restored). GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. The lowest-graded restored sale is a 2.5 (SA, trimmed) that sold for $1850 in 5/13. For comparison purposes, here are recent Universal sales: A 0.5 sold for $487 in 12/13; a 1.5 sold for $1930 in 4/15. Credits: Cover: Paul Gustavson. Scripts: Gardner Fox, Shelly Moldoff, Jerry Siegel, Homer Fleming, Ken Ernst, Sven Elven?, Tom Hickey. Art: Bob Kane Shelly Moldoff, Mart Bailey, Homer Fleming, Ken Ernst, Fred Guardineer, Sven Elven, Tom Hickey, Joe Shuster Overstreet: "Batman uses gun for 1st time to slay The Monk and Dala. This was the 1st time a costumed hero used a gun in comic books. 1st Batman head logo on cover." Sixth appearance of Batman. Bat-cyclopedia: "In October 1939 Batman's battle with the MONK continues.... The Monk... hypnotizes Batman and leads him into his towering castle, intending to put him to death.... and hurls the hypnotized Batman into a wolf pit. As Batman falls among the sharp-fanged wolves, however, his 'senses return to their full power,' and he soon engineers a daring escape from the pit. "Later, during the daytime, as the Monk and Dala lie resting in their coffins, Batman melts down a solver statuette and molds two bullets from the molten silver. Loading the bullets into an automatic pistol, he approaches the villain's coffins and fires point-blank into their bodies." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 115, 280. Batman's Kill Count: After refraining from killing anyone in Detective Comics #31 (Batman's first no-kill adventure), the Caped Crusader makes up for lost time by blasting two bloodsuckers to hell with his smoking gat in this ish. "At the conclusion of the second chapter of 'Batman Versus the Vampire' in Detective Comics #32, Batman opts for a permanent solution for dispatching his supernatural foes. Armed with silver bullets, he visits the Monk's castle and kills the villain and his followers, vowing 'Never again will you hard any mortal being!' The use of lethal force was commonplace in the pulp magazines of the era, and the morality of comic book heroes often followed suit." — Andrew Farago and Gina McIntyre, Batman: The Definitive History of the Dark Knight in Comics, Film, and Beyond. Insight Editions: 2022, p. 18. Scat, Bat Gat: "This business with guns was troublesome, and after one more reoccurrence DC's editorial staff decided to disarm Batman as far as deadly weapons were concerned.... The use of supernatural events would also be discouraged in the future, perhaps on the grounds that nobody should be scarier than Batman." — Les Daniels, Batman: The Complete History. Chronicle: 1999, p. 31. 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 lim