American Update: Batmania Returns! Batman #40 (1947) – classic Joker cover and lead story
*DC: We commence a new round of Batmania with a Golden Age classic! The Clown Prince of Crime rides again in this lovely item, a superb copy from 1947 featuring bright yellow cover with no scribbling, staining or creasing, tight centrefold and cover staples, only the faintest corner ‘blunting’, barely perceptible, and only very slightly ‘tanned’ pages, off-white and flexible. The content is prime: the lead, ‘The 13 Club’, sees the Joker apparently becoming the butt of the joke when his fortunes abruptly reverse – or do they? In ‘The Case of Batman II’, the Boy Wonder seemingly has to ‘play a Sub’, recruiting and training a fill-in Batman when the original is out of action and the tense thriller ‘The Grand Opera Murders’ is, well, pretty much what it says on the tin. A truly lovely item, with only the faintest dustshadow reining it in to a VG/FN grade. On sale at £475. SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD