Detective Comics #1
Detective Comics » Detective Comics #1 - The Murders of Cap'n Scum released by DC Comics on March 1937.
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An inauspicious start 0
I wouldn't ordinarily suggest judging a book by its cover, but it's clear just from the cover image that the first issue of Detective Comics falls squarely into the Yellow Peril genre. Two of the stories, "The Claws of the Red Dragon" and "Slam Bradley", feature the stereotypical Chinese villains being defeated by heroic Americans. For a change of pace, "Speed Saunders and the River Patrol" has Chinese immigrants as the victims of a crime, rather than the perpetrators.The first issue of Detectiv...
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An golden issue with flaws because of time 0
As someone who just started reading comics from golden age I can not give a high score of it but also I can not deny the good parts of it and understand some of it flaws I see in it. Definitely this is an important issue that started a legendary series that introduce later on one of the most iconic characters in comics (Batman). But sadly the tropes and stereotypical characters did not age well after 80+ years....
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