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"The Batmobile is an icon of American car culture, the steel-and-metal embodiment of an obsessed and driven crime fighter." — Mark Cotta Vaz, Batmobile: The Complete History DETECTIVE COMICS No. 48 Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: February, 1941 Description: CGC certified: Good+ (2.5). Cream to off-white pages. Grader notes: "Tape top of spine; creasing to cover; multiple spine split; staining to cover." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 108 graded copies (91 Universal, 2 Qualified, 1 Signature Series, 14 Restored). GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade in 13 years. A 2.0 sold for $2000 in 8/22 (an unusually strong result, as a 4.0 sold for $995 in 10/21, and a 5.0 sold for $1410 in 4/21. Credits: Cover: Bob Kane (Jerry Robinson and George Roussos inks). Scripts: Bill Finger, Jerry Siegel, Chad Grothkopf, Jack Lehti. Art: Bob Kane (Jerry Robinson inks, George Roussos backgrounds), Ed Moore, Steve Brodie?, Chad Grothkopf, Ed Winiarski (signed Fran Miller), Don Lynch, Jack Lehti, Howard Sherman. Overstreet: "1st time car called Batmobile; Gotham City 1st mention in Detective (1st mentioned in Wow #1; also see Batman #4)." Bat-Bibliography: The DC Universe Collection copy of Detective Comics #48 is illustrated in Taschen's 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (page 152). Bat-cyclopedia: "In February 1941 Batman and Robin lend a helping hand to millionaire HENRY LEWIS.... a prominent millionaire and amateur surveyor who.. stumbles upon a huge limestone cavern — larger than either Mammoth Cave or the Carlsbad Caverns — extending directly beneath the famous Fort Stox gold reserve. Soon afterward, having learned of the existence of the cave but not its exact location, a gang of criminals headed by Reynaldo, an unscrupulous nightclub owner, cleverly trick Lewis's daughter Linda into believing that she has committed a murder, and then blackmail Lewis into revealing the cave's location by threatening to report his daughter's 'crime' to the authorities.... BATMAN and ROBIN learn of Reynaldo's scheme and race to Fort Stox in time to apprehend Reynaldo and his cohorts."— Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 116, 263. The Batmobile Gets Named: Batman's sleek roadster earns its famous moniker in this ish. "'A black thunderbolt on wheels, a swift nemesis to lawbreakers, a mighty machine of justice... that's the BATMOBILE!' ...The term 'batmobile' designates the specially designed and equipped automobile employed by Batman and Robin. In the early days of Batman's career, however, there was no special batmobile. Throughout 1939 Batman drives a series of red sedans which vary slightly in design from text to text.... In February 1941 Batman's roadster, here colored red, appears with a small batlike ornament adorning the hood, and for the first time in the chronicles the term 'batmobile' is used." — Ibid, Fleisher, pp. 54-55. Gotham City: Batman's base of operations, formerly identified as New York City, is finally dubbed "Gotham City" in this ish. "The New York of the Bat-Man's first-year adventures is renamed Gotham City in the early months of 1941, about the same time that Batman's red roadster gains a bat-shaped hood ornament and is first referred to as the 'Batmobile.' The Bat-Signal makes its first appearance a year later." — Glen Weldon, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. Simon & Schuster: 2016, p. 40. "Gotham is Manhattan below 14th Street at 3am, November 28th in a cold year. Metropolis is Manhattan between 14th and 110th Streets on the brightest, sunniest July day of the year." — Denny O'Neil, quoted in Bill Boichel's essay "Batman: Commodity as Myth," The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and His Media. Routledge: 1991, p. 9. Swipe File: The first funnybook to name Gotham City as a superhero's base of operations was Fawcett's