Batman No. 10: Museum Object and Cultural History
Batman No. 10: date made: 1942. maker: D. C. Comics, Inc.. Object Name: comic book.
The object in the museum catalogue
Batman issue No. 10 was published by DC Comics in April and May 1942 and sold for 10 cents. The cover art, credited to Jerry Robinson, depicts Batman holding a paintbrush and Robin holding a pen standing atop an artist’s board featuring an unfinished comics page.
The stories in this issue include: "The Isle that Time Forgot," "Report Card Blues," "The Princess of Plunder," and “The Sheriff of Ghost Town."
Batman made his comic debut in Detective Comics No. 27 in 1939 before receiving his own self-titled line of books in 1942.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1942
- maker: D. C. Comics, Inc.
- Object Name: comic book
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 8 in x 10 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 26.67 cm
- depicted: Batman
- Subject: Comics
- ID Number: 2013.0086.011
- catalog number: 2013.0086.011
- accession number: 2013.0086
- Credit Line: Gift of Olivia V. Crisson and Phillip M.S. Crisson in honor of Peter Bozzer
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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