DETECTIVE COMICS No. 66 * 1st Two-Face Appearance Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: August, 1942 Description: CGC certified: VG+ (4.5). Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: "Piece out right bottom of front cover; readers crease full left of front cover; light spine stress lines to cover; moderate creasing to cover." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 117 graded copies (89 Universal, 2 Qualified, 2 Signature Series, 24 Restored). GPAnalysis: A 4.5 sold for $9100 in 8/20. More recently, a 4.0 sold for $14,250 in 2/23. Credits: Cover: Jerry Robinson (George Roussos backgrounds). Scripts: Bill Finger (from idea by Bob Kane), Joe Simon/Jack Kirby?, Jack Lehti, Murray Boltinoff? Art: Bob Kane (Jerry Robinson inks, George Roussos backgrounds), Jack Kirby (with Joe Simon), Jack Lehti (Charles Paris inks), Louis Cazeneuve, Lee Harris (Charles Paris inks), Howard Sherman. Overstreet: "Origin & 1st app: Two-Face." Bat-cyclopedia: "In August 1942 Batman and Robin battle Two-Face.... a hideous, tormented criminal — half good, half evil; half Jekyll, half Hyde — whose entire life in crime revolves around the numeral two. His name derives from his terrifying face, the right side of which is handsome and whole, while the left side is a gruesome mass of rotted scar. When Two-Face makes a decision, it is by tossing the two-headed silver dollar that has become his personal trademark and most famous symbol, for the coin, shiny and handsome on one side and deliberately scratched and scarred on the other, is both a mocker and a determiner of its owner's twisted criminal career. "Before he launched his bizarre career in crime, Two-Face was Harvey Kent, handsome district attorney. But since the day the left side of his face was left horribly scarred by a vial of acid hurled at him in a GOTHAM CITY courtroom by gangster 'Boss' Moroni, Harvey Kent has lived in the shadow of Two-Face, 'the most bizarre, the most unpredictable crime-master of all time.' From December 1948-January 1949 onward, due to what can only be regarded as a chronicler's error, the texts refer to Harvey Kent as Harvey Dent." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 116, 359. Postmodern Bat-Babble Dept.: Harvey Dent's duality makes him an armchair shrink's dream come true, and sure enough, pop-psychological pontificators have had a field day theorizing about his strange psychopathology. A prime example: "If Dent now believes random chance controls people's actions and fates, then he believes in external causality.... In other words, Dent at heart still believes himself responsible for his actions, accountability he prefers not to think about, so he lets a coin toss excuse his actions.... When he tries to force others to see the randomness of life, he is trying to convince himself." — Travis Langley, Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight. Wiley: 2021, pp. 192-193. Item#: 360040 Headline: DETECTIVE COMICS #66 * Origin & 1st App: TWO-FACE
DETECTIVE COMICS No. 66 * 1st Two-Face Appearance Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: August, 1942 Description: CGC certified: VG+ (4.5). Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: "Piece out right bottom of front cover; readers crease full left of front cover; light spine stress lines to cover; moderate creasing to cover." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 117 graded copies (89 Universal, 2 Qualified, 2 Signature Series, 24 Restored). GPAnalysis: A 4.5 sold for $9100 in 8/20. More recently, a 4.0 sold for $14,250 in 2/23. Credits: Cover: Jerry Robinson (George Roussos backgrounds). Scripts: Bill Finger (from idea by Bob Kane), Joe Simon/Jack Kirby?, Jack Lehti, Murray Boltinoff? Art: Bob Kane (Jerry Robinson inks, George Roussos backgrounds), Jack Kirby (with Joe Simon), Jack Lehti (Charles Paris inks), Louis Cazeneuve, Lee Harris (Charles Paris inks), Howard Sherman. Overstreet: "Origin & 1st app: Two-Face." Bat-cyclopedia: "In August 1942 Batman and Robin battle Two-Face.... a hideous, tormented criminal — half good, half evil; half Jekyll, half Hyde — whose entire life in crime revolves around the numeral two. His name derives from his terrifying face, the right side of which is handsome and whole, while the left side is a gruesome mass of rotted scar. When Two-Face makes a decision, it is by tossing the two-headed silver dollar that has become his personal trademark and most famous symbol, for the coin, shiny and handsome on one side and deliberately scratched and scarred on the other, is both a mocker and a determiner of its owner's twisted criminal career. "Before he launched his bizarre career in crime, Two-Face was Harvey Kent, handsome district attorney. But since the day the left side of his face was left horribly scarred by a vial of acid hurled at him in a GOTHAM CITY courtroom by gangster 'Boss' Moroni, Harvey Kent has lived in the shadow of Two-Face, 'the most bizarre, the most unpredictable crime-master of all time.' From December 1948-January 1949 onward, due to what can only be regarded as a chronicler's error, the texts refer to Harvey Kent as Harvey Dent." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 116, 359. Postmodern Bat-Babble Dept.: Harvey Dent's duality makes him an armchair shrink's dream come true, and sure enough, pop-psychological pontificators have had a field day theorizing about his strange psychopathology. A prime example: "If Dent now believes random chance controls people's actions and fates, then he believes in external causality.... In other words, Dent at heart still believes himself responsible for his actions, accountability he prefers not to think about, so he lets a coin toss excuse his actions.... When he tries to force others to see the randomness of life, he is trying to convince himself." — Travis Langley, Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight. Wiley: 2021, pp. 192-193. Item#: 360040 Headline: DETECTIVE COMICS #66 * Origin & 1st App: TWO-FACE
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