DETECTIVE COMICS No. 70 Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: December, 1942 Description: CGC certified: Good+ (2.5). Brittle pages. Grader notes: "Piece out left bottom of back cover; spine split bottom of all wrap; spine split bottom of spine; tape front cover; large tear bottom of front cover." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 79 graded copies (67 Universal, 1 Qualified, 3 Signature Series, 8 Restored). GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade in 19 years. A 3.0 sold for $1500 in 10/23; a 1.8 sold for $700 in 5/22. Credits: Cover: Jerry Robinson. Scripts: Don Cameron, Joe Samachson, Murray Boltinoff, Joe Simon/Jack Kirby? Art: Bob Kane (Jerry Robinson inks, George Roussos backgrounds), Howard Sherman, Jack Lehti (Charles Paris inks), Chuck Winter, Lee Harris (Charles Paris inks), Jack Kirby/Joe Simon. Bat-cyclopedia: "In December 1942 Batman and Robin meet the amazing CARLO.... a vaudeville mind-reader who turns to crime when he discovers that the delicate brain surgery he underwent following an automobile accident actually endowed him with the miraculous ability to read minds. At one point, Carlo reads BATMAN'S mind and learns his secret identity, but he is shot and killed by Pete Jorgen, one of his intended robbery victims, before he can reveal the secret to anyone else." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 117, 156. Dead Men Tell No Tales Dept.: The "Nothing But Batman" blog claims that folks who detect the Dark Knight's secret identity can be divided into four distinct categories: 1. People who retained the knowledge. 2. People who learned that Bruce Wayne was Batman, but were later convinced otherwise. 3. People who learned that Bruce Wayne was Batman but suffered amnesia and forgot it. 4. People who learned that Bruce Wayne was Batman but died. Carlo falls into the fatal fourth category, along with Queenie (Joker's female accomplice who doped out Batman's secret and then died with a slug in her back); Dana Drye (a private eye who snuffs himself, taking Batman's secret to the grave); and the most famous of Batman's secret identity casualties, Joe Chill, the hoodlum who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne. After Batman tracks down Chill and unmasks for him ("...I am the son of the man you murdered! I AM BRUCE WAYNE!"), Chill is assassinated by his underworld pals for motivating Batman's war against crime. Item#: 360044 Headline: DETECTIVE COMICS #70 * Batman's Secret ID
DETECTIVE COMICS No. 70 Provenance: DC Universe Collection Publisher: DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.] Date Published: December, 1942 Description: CGC certified: Good+ (2.5). Brittle pages. Grader notes: "Piece out left bottom of back cover; spine split bottom of all wrap; spine split bottom of spine; tape front cover; large tear bottom of front cover." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION. CGC Census: 79 graded copies (67 Universal, 1 Qualified, 3 Signature Series, 8 Restored). GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade in 19 years. A 3.0 sold for $1500 in 10/23; a 1.8 sold for $700 in 5/22. Credits: Cover: Jerry Robinson. Scripts: Don Cameron, Joe Samachson, Murray Boltinoff, Joe Simon/Jack Kirby? Art: Bob Kane (Jerry Robinson inks, George Roussos backgrounds), Howard Sherman, Jack Lehti (Charles Paris inks), Chuck Winter, Lee Harris (Charles Paris inks), Jack Kirby/Joe Simon. Bat-cyclopedia: "In December 1942 Batman and Robin meet the amazing CARLO.... a vaudeville mind-reader who turns to crime when he discovers that the delicate brain surgery he underwent following an automobile accident actually endowed him with the miraculous ability to read minds. At one point, Carlo reads BATMAN'S mind and learns his secret identity, but he is shot and killed by Pete Jorgen, one of his intended robbery victims, before he can reveal the secret to anyone else." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 117, 156. Dead Men Tell No Tales Dept.: The "Nothing But Batman" blog claims that folks who detect the Dark Knight's secret identity can be divided into four distinct categories: 1. People who retained the knowledge. 2. People who learned that Bruce Wayne was Batman, but were later convinced otherwise. 3. People who learned that Bruce Wayne was Batman but suffered amnesia and forgot it. 4. People who learned that Bruce Wayne was Batman but died. Carlo falls into the fatal fourth category, along with Queenie (Joker's female accomplice who doped out Batman's secret and then died with a slug in her back); Dana Drye (a private eye who snuffs himself, taking Batman's secret to the grave); and the most famous of Batman's secret identity casualties, Joe Chill, the hoodlum who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne. After Batman tracks down Chill and unmasks for him ("...I am the son of the man you murdered! I AM BRUCE WAYNE!"), Chill is assassinated by his underworld pals for motivating Batman's war against crime. Item#: 360044 Headline: DETECTIVE COMICS #70 * Batman's Secret ID
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