Talk:Detective Comics

message: Does anyone know when Detective began to focus exclusively on Batman? You'd think this would be an important part to the article, or at least an interesting one. I've been doing Google searches and I've come up with nothing more than a personal blog entry that mentioned the comic beginning its Batman exclusivity in the late 80s, which seems dubious to me, and unsupported by my memory of buying pre-80s issues of the comic.DT29 (talk) 01:50, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Like most of the early comic books, Detective started out as an anthology title where (beginning in #27) Batman was just one of several features, just like Action Comics had Superman along with other feature stories.  The comics were thicker (64 pages), and the stories shorter than today.  Gradually over time, the size of the comics were reduced to the current 32 page size (the page width was also gradually reduced to save paper costs, which is why there are separate "Golden", "Silver", and "Modern" age sizes of comic bags and boards) to keep from raising the price from 10 cents (but finally around 1962 it went up to 12 cents, beginning the steady upward march of cover prices that continues to this day).  Somewhere in the '60s, as stories became longer, comics started often having just one story (sometimes continued to the next issue to make an even longer storyline), crowding out other content, though through the '70s it was still fairly common to have a short backup story in the comics.  By the '80s, book-length stories were pretty much universal with only rare exceptions. *Dan T.* (talk) 03:51, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

text: Well, I don't have a real answer either. Dtobias is right, until the late 70's and early 80's an issue consists of many short stories with different (main) characters... and this changes somewhere during the 5xx issues. The first issue i own that contains 1 Batman story only is #568 (the legends tie-in); this surely does "not" mean it's the first Batman only story but I think there's no mixed issues after that anymore, at least not on a regular schedule. Hope, it may help. --116.118.88.215 (talk) 03:35, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Batman exclusivity 

message: Could we get how much this comic sells, how many monthly copies on average? I heard 100,000 and would like to know. 201.80.230.48 (talk) 02:20, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sales performance 

message: I have seen there is a new article called Batwoman: Detective Comics. I don't believe it is necessary because it's not a different series and has the continued numbering of the title.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.116.4.185 (talk) 01:48, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Proposal 

message: There's a discussion on which comic-related articles should be listed as "Top Importance" on the importance scale, and I feel this article should not be included. If any user disagrees or wishes to contribute, please do so there. Argento Surfer (talk) 14:46, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top Importance? 

message: Here are some citations I found while responding to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Comics#Detective Comics #27. 
: The United States Copyright Office's official record, the Catalog of Copyright Entries 1939 Periodicals New Series Vol 34 Pt 2 page 164 (online version available at the Internet Archive) gives a copyright date of March 30, 1939 for the May issue of Detective Comics. I would certainly give credence to a contemporaneous legal record.
: In addition, the Grand Comics Database entry for Detective Comics #27 uses the date of March 30, 1939 with the notation "The on-sale date is the publication date reported in the U. S. Copyright Office filing." 
: DC's "Official Press Release" Warner Bros. Entertainment and DC Entertainment Celebrate Batman's 75th Anniversary states "First appearing in the comic book Detective Comics #27, which hit newsstands on March 30, 1939..." 
: Articles by Variety, Bleeding Cool, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times also cite March 30, 1939. Mtminchi08 (talk) 01:12, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Detective Comics #27 (May 1939) 

message: How does an article about Detective Comics not have a single illustration of Detective with a Batman cover? That's the series' signature character, and having only a cover featuring an ersatz Fu Manchu does not convey encyclopedically what the series is best known for (though obviously the highly historic first issue needs to be here.)--Tenebrae (talk) 00:35, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Image question

message: "In later years, the start of this series has been marred by its racism and xenophobia."
Should be replaced with "has been accused of racism and xenophobia" since that is a subjective perception.--77.182.5.4 (talk) 22:25, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a verifiable statement. You're free to include the other side of this so-called subjective perception. --Cold Season (talk) 16:20, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  More neutral wording