working (not always directly) for companies that rarely printed creator credits and whose record-keeping was often fragmentary, haphazard, or nonexistent. features the very first appearance of Batman and introduces such classic characters as Commissioner James Gordon, Robin, The Joker, Catwoman, the Penguin and many more! Scanned directly from original copies held in the DC archives, these seminal stories collect the earliest – often startling – incarnations of our modern Super Hero icons.

Sales nearly doubled, despite Kane's preference for a solo Batman, and it sparked a proliferation of ''kid sidekicks.He catches himself on a flagpole and as Joker takes aim at Robin, about to kill him again, Batman steps out of an alley drawing his fire. Aunt Harriet was included as a female companion for Batman and Robin, without having the heroes involved in silly romances as they previously had with Batwoman and Bat-Girl.

Wertham criticized Batman comics for their supposed homosexual overtones and argued that Batman and Robin were portrayed as lovers. The Cat feels much more like 60s camp Batman, while The Joker stories retain aspects of the old school 30s pulp darkness. He then starts quipping again in a way that really makes me think he’s not taking any of this seriously.At the dawn of the Silver Age of comics, DC Comics decided to reintroduce several of their Golden Age superheroes, all of whom had ceased publication several years earlier. Wayne's daughter Helena and Grayson would continue protecting Gotham City as the Huntress and Robin until they were killed during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. In this new continuity, Dick Grayson became Robin at age 15, but was wearing a brand new (never before seen) costume.