*DC: It starts here! Welcome to our special Batmania Max event, running through the summer, as we unveil one of the best Batman collections ever to come through our hands. We’re starting with an outstanding brace of Batman – wrapped in plastic! We here at 30th C., as you all know, think slabbing takes away from the main purpose of comics, i.e., to read and enjoy. But railing Canute-like at trends in the marketplace doesn’t change the fact that a lot of folks out their like the CGC-graded items, and there is no doubt that they’re preferred by investors, so we’re happy to present them as we get them. Here we have two true vintage issues of Batman. The first is issue #7, October-November 1941, with a spectacular iconic cover and featuring an early appearance by the Joker. This is offered at £1,000. Accompanying it is issue #86, from September 1954, again featuring a Joker story, plus one of the goofy variant Batman guises, as our Dynamic Duo become “Man-Of-The-Bats and little Raven!”. It also, we are told, features the first appearance of the Bat-Submarine. Was there a second appearance of the Bat-Submarine? We may never know! For such a packed issue, this runs to a comparatively bargainaceous £150. Both these vintage items are graded by CGC’s valuers at unrestored (universal blue label) 4.5 (a VG+ equivalent), so… if you like this slabbed sort of thing, then this is the slabbed sort of thing you like! More from this special Batman event very soon!