<i>Batman</i> No. 18
date: label: date made
content: 1943
name: label: referenced
content: Hitler, Adolph
label: referenced
content: Mussolini, Benito
label: referenced
content: Tojo, Hideki
label: maker
content: D. C. Comics, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <i>Batman</i> issue No. 18 was published by DC Comics in August and September 1943. It sold for 10 cents. The yellow cover has art credited to Dick Sprang that depicts Batman and Robin running from an exploding fire cracker that knocks down cartoon caricatures of the Axis leaders Hitler, Mussolini, and Tōjō. The cover bears the caption “Insure the 4th of July! Buy War Bonds and Stamps!” Many comics of the period encouraged patriotism and participation in the war effort.
label: Description
content: This issue contains the stories "The Secret of Hunters Inn," "Robin Studies his Lessons," The Good Samaritan Cops," and “The Crime Surgeon."
label: Description
content: Batman made his comic debut in 1939 in <i>Detective Comics</i> No. 27 and received his own self-titled line of comic books in 1942.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: War Bonds
label: depicted
content: Batman
label: Subject
content: Comics
label: Subject
content: World War II
label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Comic Books
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content: a gift from Olivia V. Crisson and Phillip M.S. Crisson- in honor of Peter Bozzer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0086.015
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0086.015
label: accession number
content: 2013.0086
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comic book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 10 in; 19.05 cm x 25.4 cm