Batman No. 21
Batman No. 21
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- Description
- Batman issue No. 21 was published by DC Comics in February and March 1944 and sold for 10 cents. The red cover art is credited to Dick Sprang and depicts Batman and Robin riding bucking horses, with the caption “Batman and Robin whoop it up in four whirlwind action stories!”
- This issue contains the stories "The Streamlined Rustlers," "Blitzkrieg Bandits," "His Lordship's Double," and "The Three Eccentrics."
- Batman made his comic debut in 1939 in Detective Comics No. 27 before receiving his own self-titled line of comic books in 1942.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- comic book
- date made
- 1944
- maker
- D. C. Comics, Inc.
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 10 in; 19.05 cm x 25.4 cm
- ID Number
- 2013.0086.017
- catalog number
- 2013.0086.017
- accession number
- 2013.0086
- Credit Line
- Gift of Olivia V. Crisson and Phillip M.S. Crisson in honor of Peter Bozzer
- subject
- Batman
- Comics
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- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- Comic Books
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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