Set Description:
Synopsis: This is a set of 174 Detective Comics from the late Golden Age and Silver Age with a minimum grade of 8.0. All of the books fall between Issues #201 and #400 with 49 of the books in the set being single highest graded examples.
Background: Detective Comics is an anthology comic featuring detective characters, both superhero and civilian. The longest-lasting character in Detective Comics was Batman, as from the time of his debut (#27, May 1939), the Caped Crusader was almost always the star of the cover and lead story.
Detective Comics has remained in publication longer than any other DC Comics title, and indeed, the very name DC was taken from its initials. In March 2019, Detective became only the third American comic book in history-after Action and the Four Color series of the 1930s-60s by Dell Comics-to publish a 1,000th issue.
Our Collection: Our focus in collecting Detectives is really the Silver Age books, which unfortunately straddle two other sets #201-300 and #301-400. We just registered the books here to have one place where we can quickly reference all our Detectives, we have zero intent-or money LOL-to ever finish this set.
Currently, we have 160 books in this set with a goal of collecting 200, although it’s not a goal we will probably ever achieve. We may eventually shorten our target to Issues #240-400, which is really where our interest lies, and sell our earlier books. But for now, the search goes on.
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