*DC: Detective Comics celebrated its ground-breaking 400th issue with a lead tale drawn by the superlative Neal Adams – treat enough – but it also introduced a new arch-nemesis for the Caped Crusader in the shape of Kirk Langstrom, tormented scientist who became a half-human, half-bat hybrid in his quest for knowledge. Langstrom’s Jekyll & Hyde persona made him a sympathetic antagonist, and brought him back for many subsequent appearances in multiple media, making him, ironically, the best-known creation of veteran scripter Frank Robbins. This pence stamped copy is FN+, tight and flat with excellent, firmly-attached staples and good colour cover; just minor edge wear and corner blunting and a faint trace of a non-colour breaking crease at bottom right edge cover. 
PICTURED: DETECTIVE COMICS #400 FN+ p £160