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DETECTIVE COMICS No. 35 Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: January, 1940 Description: CGC certified: Poor (0.5). Purple Label: Restored. Brittle pages. Grader notes: "Brittleness splitting most wrap; missing interior part/page/wrap back cover; paper taped to spine of front cover; tape interior; tape interior spine; tape spine; ALL 3 EDGES OF PAGE 1 & 32 TRIMMED." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 96 graded copies (52 Universal, 1 Signature Series, 5 Qualified, 38 Restored). Of the 38 Restored copies, 5 are graded 5.0. GPAnalysis: A Restored 0.5 (C-1, Incomplete/Married cover) sold for $5400 in 11/22; a Restored 0.5 (SA) sold for $700 in 12/13. For comparison purposes, here are recent Universal sales: A 0.5 sold for $6200 in 3/18; a 0.5 (Incomplete) sold for $5012 in 2/22. Credits: Cover: Bob Kane. Scripts: Bill Finger, Jerry Siegel, Gardner Fox, Sven Elven?, Tom Hickey. Art: Bob Kane (Shelly Moldoff backgrounds), George Papp, Maurice Kashuba, Don Lynch, Fred Guardineer, Sven Elven, Tom Hickey, Mart Bailey. Overstreet: "Classic Batman hypodermic needle cover that reflects story in #34; classic Batman with smoking .45 automatic splash panel." Ninth appearance of Batman. Bat-cyclopedia: "In January, 1940 Batman faces death at the hands of SHELDON LENOX.... an unscrupulous 'globe-trotter and explorer' who, having returned from India with a ruby statuette of Kila, the Hindu god of destruction, sells the statuette to a collector named Weldon, contriving to place the blame for the theft on angry Hindu worshippers determined to recover the idol for their sacred shrine. Lenox dies when, during a battle with BATMAN, he falls through an open window to his doom." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 115, 263. Batman's Kill Count: In the previous ish, Batman beat the Duc D'Orterre silly while the Duc was driving a speeding car, causing him to plunge off a bridge to his death. In the present ish, Batman boots a Hindu chap onto his pal's sword, impaling him, and then he smacks Sheldon Lenox so hard that Lenox tumbles through an open window (last words: "YAAAAAH!"). Batman's death count so far: probably in the dozens. Despite the famous splash depicting Batman packing a smoking gat, the Caped Crusader deals death to his foes by other means than firepower in this ish. Ghost Story: “Bob [Kane] had gotten to the point where he never drew anything. Never drew anything on the Batman comics, anyway. [Sheldon] Moldoff was ghosting them all and when he didn’t, someone else did. The only thing I think Bob ever drew was when we’d be out somewhere, in a restaurant or someplace, and a pretty girl would come over to him and say, ‘Are you really the man who draws Batman?’ Then he could whip out a little sketch for her, a big sketch if she was wearing something low-cut and would bend over to watch him draw. "One day I’m over at his house to discuss this newspaper strip idea we had and he’s talking about who we might get to draw it. I was going to write it and we were going to get someone else to draw it. I’m not sure what Bob was going to do on it except sign his name. I said to him, 'Bob, isn’t it disappointing to you that you don’t draw any more? You were once such a great artist.’ He wasn’t but you had to talk to Bob that way. "He said, 'Oh, no. Let me show you something.’ He took me into a little room in his house. It was his studio. I didn’t even know he still had a studio. It was all set up with easels and things and there were paintings, paintings of clowns. You know the kind. Like the ones Red Skelton used to do. Just these insipid portraits of clowns, all signed very large, 'Bob Kane.’ He was so proud of them. He said, 'These are the paintings that are going to make me in the world of art. Batman was a big deal in one world and these paintings will soon be in every gallery in the world.’ He thought the Louv