<i>Batman</i> No. 30
date: label: date made
content: 1945
name: label: maker
content: D. C. Comics, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <i>Batman</i> issue No. 30 was published by DC Comics in August and September 1945 and sold for ten cents. The cover art by Dick Sprang depicts Batman and Robin in the jungle handing an American GI a new gun. Batman says “Here’s a new gun form the folks back home, soldier!” and Robin responds, “YEP! The folks that’re backing the 7th war loan!” During World War II, popular culture often encouraged participation in the war effort, especially through purchasing war bonds. Golden Age comics would often use the Axis leaders as antagonists for patriotic heroes such as Captain America or Spy Smasher.
label: Description
content: This issue contains the stories "Back to the Big House," "While the City Sleeps," "Alias the Baron," and "Ally Babble and the Fourteen Peeves."
label: Description
content: Batman made his comic debut in 1939 in <i>Detective Comics</i> No. 27 before receiving his own self-titled line of books in 1942.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: 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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of 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: 2013.0086.023
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0086.023
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 1/4 in; 19.05 cm x 26.035 cm