Same here. I only read the Batman stories. Some issues only have the Batman stories.
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They need to add the rest of the issues.
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I have always wanted to see the gun-toting pseudo-Golden Age Batman that Rags Morales drew for First Wave team up with the t-shirt and jeans pseudo-Golden Age Superman that Morales drew for the New 52. They could team up to use lethal force on some gangsters and Nazis in a throwback story set in the Great Depression.
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I forgot about Worldâs Finest. I think Iâm going to stick to Batman and Detective for now and maybe update my spreadsheet once I get up to 1956.
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In the 4th story of Batman 8, The Joker is wanted and the President of The United States sends for Batman and Robin. They arrive in DC to a parade. The Joker leaves a clue and heâs headed to my state!
| Title | Issue | 1941 | Killer | Deaths | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detective Comics | 47 | 1/1/1941 | - | - | |
| Detective Comics | 48 | 2/5/1941 | - | 2 | Two guards at Fort Stox gun down two of Renaldoâs henchmen who are in the vault room via underground cave. |
| Detective Comics | 49 | 3/5/1941 | Clayface | 1 | Clayface strangles a clerk at a make up supply company. |
| Batman | 4 | 3/5/1941 | - | - | First story Batman mentions to Robin about not taking a life *Final story has editors note that Batman doesnât carry a gun and never kills. |
| Detective Comics | 50 | 4/2/1941 | - | - | |
| Detective Comics | 51 | 5/7/1941 | - | - | |
| Detective Comics | 52 | 6/4/1941 | - | - | |
| Detective Comics | 53 | 7/2/1941 | - | - | |
| Batman | 5 | 7/2/1941 | Joker | 3 | 1st Batmobile with Batface design.Joker sabotages his own crew locking them in a room with Batman and Robin |
| Detective Comics | 54 | 8/6/1941 | - | - | |
| Batman | 6 | 8/6/1941 | 1.Batman, 2.Clockmaker Robin 3.Robin | 1,3,1,1 | 1st story - Batman chooses not to save the crooked parole board racketeer falling to his death down an elevator shaft. 2nd story - Clockmaker kills two shareholders with replacement clocks that strike 13 times. The third shareholder plotted with the clockmaker and double crosses him. The clockmaker kills him with a sythe. Robin pulls the clockmaker out of a clocktower leaving him to fall to his death.3rd story - Robin acts quickly and stops Graham Masters from shooting Batman in the back. The gun twists around and kills Masters. |
| Detective Comics | 55 | 9/3/1941 | Batman | 3 | Batman punches a large man into boiling water/metal at a factory. Later knocks two âspiesâ off a blimp to their deaths. The blimps commander shoots a pistol that causes the blimp to explode into a fiery mess. |
| Detective Comics | 56 | 10/1/1941 | Batman and Robin | 5 | Batman and Robin push the strongman of a traveling circus into a pillar in an underground mine killing 5 men who were trying to scare the town away for the silver mine under the town. |
| Batman | 7 | 10/1/1941 | - | - | |
| Detective Comics | 57 | 11/5/1941 | - | - | |
| Detectice Comics | 58 | 12/3/1941 | Penguin | 2 | 1st Penguin Penguin kills a mob boss and takes control of his men. Later as Batman and Robin foil a diamond robbery, Penguin shoots acid at his henchman killing him. |
| Batman | 8 | 12/3/1941 | Joker | 2 | The Joker kills two former henchmen with cigars that emit gas that kills instantly. He also paints over the white lines causing a bus filled with jewelers to plunge to their deaths. The number of people on the bus is unknown. |
This took me a few weeks to complete once again. I do enjoy reading these but older comics are just a bit more wordy. It is nice you get a complete story in the pages but so many details are just left out. Batman killed 9 in 1941 and Joker killed 5.
So far it looks like in 3 years Batman has killed 35 criminals while the Joker has killed 20+. I say 20 plus because it wasnât disclosed the amount of people on a bus in Batman #8. I think eventually this project will focus on Jokerâs total kill count. Oy vey!
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It was World War II at the time though. So I guess it makes sense at the time. It was the first 2 years Batman has existed for. Canât expect everything to already happen.
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I am surprised at how few of these kills are with a gun. The only ones I can find is the vampires, and Bats is normally portrayed as fine with killing the undead.
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