The Son of the Joker.
Early-1960s Batman lived in a bright, strange, pre-camp world — one where the Joker might headline a story about legacy and inheritance rather than pure menace. Batman #145, from February 1962, is a Bill Finger script drawn by Sheldon Moldoff and Charles Paris, and it wears the clean primary-color confidence of DC’s Silver Age at full stride.
Moldoff’s cover is the draw: the great yellow BATMAN logo, the cape unfurled against a flat red field, and the Joker mid-caper. It’s a design that depends entirely on register and color to land — which is exactly why it rewards a high grade. This is among the more sought-after Joker covers of the early decade, and clean copies have grown genuinely scarce.
Graded CGC 8.5 with Off-White to White pages and housed in an older CGC holder, this copy holds the cover’s color and structure where lesser examples show spine and corner wear. A confident, display-grade book from the years just before the 1966 television series changed how the whole world saw Batman.
CGC 8.5 · Off-White to White Pages · DC Comics, February 1962.
The Son of the Joker.
Early-1960s Batman lived in a bright, strange, pre-camp world — one where the Joker might headline a story about legacy and inheritance rather than pure menace. Batman #145, from February 1962, is a Bill Finger script drawn by Sheldon Moldoff and Charles Paris, and it wears the clean primary-color confidence of DC’s Silver Age at full stride.
Moldoff’s cover is the draw: the great yellow BATMAN logo, the cape unfurled against a flat red field, and the Joker mid-caper. It’s a design that depends entirely on register and color to land — which is exactly why it rewards a high grade. This is among the more sought-after Joker covers of the early decade, and clean copies have grown genuinely scarce.
Graded CGC 8.5 with Off-White to White pages and housed in an older CGC holder, this copy holds the cover’s color and structure where lesser examples show spine and corner wear. A confident, display-grade book from the years just before the 1966 television series changed how the whole world saw Batman.
CGC 8.5 · Off-White to White Pages · DC Comics, February 1962.
