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Batman Comic Book Values For #1-100
This Batman comics price guide will help you to value all the early issues of Batman comics, the series which began in 1940.
Click here to see values for Batman comic #101-200.
Remember that there is also the original Detective Comics series, as well as other comic books featuring Batman. If you have found some Detective Comics, then we have a separate guide to Detective Comics values here.
Batman #1
First appearance of Joker and Catwoman (The Cat)
Record sale: $2,220,000
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One of the top 5 books in the comic book hobby, with two HUGE first appearances in one issue.
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Batman #2
The Cat becomes Catwoman
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Sure, Batman #2 isn't worth what Batman #1 is, but it's still quite valuable to collectors, primarily for the development of the Catwoman character.
In #2, Selina Kyle is still not in costume, but still beautiful and beguiling, and still exerting an influence over our man Bruce. In the lead story, "The Joker Meets the Cat-Woman," Batman and Robin are foiled in their attempt to change The Joker into a model citizen through an operation by a "famous brain specialist."
So, things don't work out, and the Joker gets kidnapped by some other thugs (who want his help in stealing some gems) before he can be lobotomized, and Cat-Woman gets involved, helping to save Robin after the Boy Wonder goes and gets himself captured by The Joker.
We begin to see that she can't be all bad at this point, and that along with the sex appeal, there is someone worth Bruce's attention.
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Batman #3
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Batman #4
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Batman #5
1st Batmobile
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Batman #6
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Batman #7
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One of many goofy covers in the Batman series.
Batman #8
Infinity cover
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Batman #9
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Batman #10
Record sale: $19,000
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Batman #11
Classic Joker cover
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The Penguin features in a short backing story called "Four Birds of a Feather." Also, a Joker story.
What could be as groovy as the Batcave? Nothing, that's what.
Secret elevator to stately Wayne Manor, Bat-Plane hangar, Batmobile garage and repair shop. It didn't have girls, but it had everything else that makes life worth living.
Batman #12
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The Dynamic Duo battle the Joker and a villain called "The Thumb."
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Batman and Robin battle Nazi spies, the Penguin, and a villain named "Pills Mattson."
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A Catwoman story, a Joker story, and a story in which the Dynamic Duo meet Santa Claus.
Now THAT'S why it's called the Golden Age of Comics...
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Bruce Wayne's butler and frequent cover, Alfred Beagle, first appeared in Batman #16, in April of 1943.
The bumbling son of a retired military agent who had worked for the Wayne family, Alfred applied for the job of butler and all-around "gentleman's gentleman" for Bruce and Dick at Wayne Manor.
Of course, fearing for their secret identities, the two were initially reluctant, although unwilling to hurt Alfred's feelings by rejecting him utterly.
In the end, he became vital to the long-term future of Batman and Robin as one of the supporting Batman characters every fan enjoys.
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A Penguin story, and a wartime cover featuring the Dynamic Duo riding the back of an American Eagle, urging comic readers to buy war bonds.
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Batman and Robin battle Tweedledum and Tweedledee inside another "buy war bonds" cover which features our heroes comically kicking the arses of Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini.
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A Joker story, a Nazi story, and a villain named "Legs Lascomb."
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Batman and Robin "Whoop It Up," according to the cover, in "Four Whirlwind Action Stories," one of which features the Penguin.
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The first issue where Alfred became a regular in the backup stories.
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A Joker story and a very weird Dick Sprang cover.
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Another history lesson from DC comics...
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In this story, we see the very first instance of two of Batman's major opponents teaming up, and the first time the Penguin and Joker interact.
Batman #26
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Is the Bat Sled the most ridiculous Bat device ever?
Batman #27
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Batman and Robin help Santa out with his sack on the cover of this holiday issue.
Batman #28
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Another Joker story.
Batman #29
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Bat Penny Farthing bicycle... Even weirder.
Batman #30
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More wartime B&R, with a Joker story.
Batman #31
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Batman #32
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Published in December 1945.
Batman Comics #33
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Another Christmas issue, with a Penguin story.
Batman #34
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Another great cover featuring the Bat bike.
Batman Comics #35
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Catwoman appears.
Batman #36
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"Sir Batman at King Arthur's Court." Another historical themed cover.
Batman #37
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The Joker creates gadgets in imitation of Batman's. Great Jerry Robinson cover.
The mostly black cover makes this rare in high grade.
Batman #38
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Another Penguin appearance. Two-Face makes a comeback.
Batman #39
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Miaow! It's the Catwoman, again.
Batman #40
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The Joker returns.
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The Penguin vs Batman. Again.
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Catwoman returns with a new costume and appears for the first time on the cover of Batman.
Va va va VOOM is all we can say.
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And more Penguin action. Did you know he was Batman's "drollest opponent"?
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Absolutely demented Joker cover.
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Another Catwoman story. Never a bad thing! Christmas cover.
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What's most interesting about Batman #47 is the further development of Batman's origin story.
Joe Chill is murdered by some thugs, angry that he "created" Batman by killing his parents, luckily before he can tell them Batman's secret identity (which Batman has, for some reason, decided to tell him).
In the course of the story, we see the murders of Thomas and Martha Wayne in greater detail than ever before. It's compelling stuff.
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Classic cover story, "The 1,000 Secrets of the Batcave". Great Win Mortimer cover.
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The Joker is on the cover, but Batman #49 features the debut and only Golden Age appearance of Jervis Tetch, aka the Mad Hatter. He commits hat-based crimes, you see?
Arguably more important is the first appearance of Vicki Vale, the one-time Bruce Wayne love interest, played with extra va-va-va-voom by the not-yet-crazy Kim Basinger in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film.
Bob Kane supposedly modeled Vicki's anatomy after a young Marilyn Monroe.
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Two-Face appearance, when he was still Harvey Kent.
They changed it later to avoid confusion with another of DC's stable with the surname Kent...
1st Jokermobile
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Tough to find this issue in high grade due to the all-red cover.
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Joker, Joker, JOKER!
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"Ride, Bat-Hombre, Ride!"
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You're kicking yourself now if you cut out the pin-up calendar...
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Deadshot, who would go on to much greater fame later (in the Suicide Squad and the Secret Six), makes his debut here pretending to be a new hero.
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The cover says it all: Batman and Robin spending far too much time in a red room with schematics for the new Batplane drawn on chalkboards, working on a model of their new ride.
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By now, we're into the technicolor Batman, the early days of the science-fiction-ish, silly Batman era. Whatever the case, we get Selina Kyle's origin story in Batman #62, and it's a doozy.
We also see Catwoman retire from crime, and promise to help out the Gotham PD when she can.
Selina Kyle turns out to have had amnesia. She's not really a crook! She was a stewardess who'd fallen from a crashing airplane, and the whole cat thing was because her father used to own a pet store when she was young.
See our Catwoman comics price guide for more on Ms. Kyle.
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First appearance of Cameron Creer, aka Killer Moth, out to help and protect all criminals and get rid of their number 1 nemesis: the Caped Crusader.
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The second Killer Moth appearance after his debut in the previous issue.
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Catwoman returns, with a classic full-face cover image.
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Truly upsetting Joker-as-American-Indian-totem-pole cover, housing an infamous story.
"The Joker's Comedy of Errors" has achieved unintentional fame as the story about the Joker's series of 'boner crimes'.
Look it up. Google that stuff. It's for real. The Joker wants to force Batman into a boner of his own. It's really marvelous to be able to write that.
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The mystery rope? Don't leave us hanging...
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Another "Harvey Kent" Two-Face appearance. Classic cover image.
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Catwoman has a new consort: The King of Cats, in his first appearance.
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A Penguin story, and "The Robot Cop of Gotham City." Robot covers are always collectible.
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Another superhero in jail story.
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"The Jungle Batman." Bruce and Dick are in loincloths on the cover.
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Iconic Joker cover.
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Hollywood meets Gotham City!
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Gorilla Boss! Gorilla Boss! Gorilla Boss!
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The Danger Club.
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The Crime Predictor. Cool!
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Canadian Mounties theme. Good, eh.
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Batman and Vicki Vale talk about tying the knot. Spoiler alert: they don't.
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Includes a two-page PSA comic warning readers of "The Deadly Dingo."
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Two-Face returns.
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The Flying Batman. I thought he could always fly...
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Another story showing Bruce Wayne's weakness for the ladies.
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One of the many supporting Batman characters who showed up many times over the years...
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There'll be no more boner crimes now the Comics Code is in force! You hear?
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Debut of Ace, the Bat-Hound. Holy Bow-Wow Batman! Among the sillier of the supporting cast of Batman characters introduced by DC Comics.
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Arguably, the last appearance of the "Earth-Two", or Golden Age Batman. Others place the line of demarcation elsewhere.
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According to some, the first appearance of the "Earth-One" or Silver Age Batman.
Odd, since the Silver Age hadn't yet begun.
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Ace, the Bat-Hound, on the cover!
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The 100th issue is always an important landmark in any series, and highly collectible in its own right as a consequence.
Features six of the most famous covers from the previous 99, including the cover to #1, which is perhaps the closest that most of us will ever come to owning one.
This is a VERY tough book in any grade above VG.
Everyone loves Batman. Don't they?
They should, if they don't. "But wait," you say, "maybe they just don't know the good Batman, the stuff that really makes Batman Batman." And what would that be? Oh yeah, well, then the dark stuff. You know, the early stuff.
Truth to tell, by the time that the Caped Crusader got a series named for him, he wasn't so dark any more, and wouldn't be until the 1970s.
Three Decades of Frivolous
So, from 1940, when the Batman comic first appeared, until 1970, you say? 30 years of silly? Three decades of frivolous? Well, yes.
Even so, Batman was just one of the titles that Bruce Wayne strolled through each month. Of course, Batman was not the first title to star that character.
Batman was first introduced in Detective Comics #27, published in May 1939, the Bat-Man was an instant hit, and would occupy the pages of Detective for the next 70+ years.
The title we know as Batman Comic book began as a quarterly spin-off of Detective Comics in the Spring of 1940, eventually becoming a bi-monthly with #5, in September of 1941, but not a monthly until #80, in December of 1953.
The idea that Detective is the "real" Batman comic while the title that bears his name is just another revenue stream for DC is difficult for some to grasp, especially those who don't know the history.
Whatever your relationship with Batman, there are a number of important Golden and Silver Age key issues, although fewer than Detective Comics key issues.
Somehow, the most important events in Batman's timeline always seem to happen in the pages of the comic that gave him his first appearance.
More About Batman Comic #1
Whatever sort of introduction a comic like Batman #1 requires, it is most certainly valuable. True, it is not in the same league as Detective #27, but then again, neither is Detective #28.
With five stories written by Bill Finger (who was not credited at the time, and whose authorship was something of a bone of contention for many years) and penciled by creator Bob Kane, Batman #1 is a Bat-Bonanza, beginning with the first of many retellings of the character's origin.
The Joker features in two stories in this issue, "The Joker," and "The Joker Returns," although neither reveals anything about his origins. That would have to wait until Detective #168.
Either way, the Joker is revealed as a homicidal menace, willing to kill without hesitation if need be, or to stab himself without a care. He is already leaving his victims dead with a Joker-style grin (at least some of the time) and is in almost every way the fully-formed Joker we know and love.
As for Selina Kyle, in her appearance here, she is known only as "The Cat," and does not appear in costume. Rather, she is a cat burglar and ingenue, the first femme fatale of Batman's superhero career.
She is beautiful and intelligent, and tries to seduce Bruce, asking him to become The King of Crime and be her partner, full of promise and suggestion.
He refuses, but when she jumps over the side of the yacht which Batman is using to bring her to justice, he allows her to escape, opting not to pursue her. Hmmm...
There is also a Hugo Strange story in this issue, which on the whole is full of killing and guns, both on the parts of the villains and Batman.
Batman #1, notably, would be the last time that Batman would be seen to kill a villain willingly, or to use a gun, given the new, more youth-friendly direction both the new and established Batman titles were taking.
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