Eighty years ago, DC Comics asked a question on the cover of this issue: are two villains better than one? The answer, as any Batman reader could tell you, is emphatically yes.
Batman #25 contains the only Golden Age team-up of the Joker and the Penguin — the two most iconic villains in Batman’s rogues’ gallery, together for the first and only time in the Golden Age of comics. Jack Burnley and Jerry Robinson handled the interior art, and Dick Sprang — one of the defining Batman artists of the era — delivered the cover. The result is a book that reads as a historical artifact and a genuinely great piece of Golden Age storytelling.
White pages in a 1944 book are exceptional. This CGC 4.0 is a sturdy, well-preserved Very Good copy — honest grade for a book that is over eighty years old and surviving remarkably well. An essential piece for any serious Golden Age or Batman collection.
Eighty years ago, DC Comics asked a question on the cover of this issue: are two villains better than one? The answer, as any Batman reader could tell you, is emphatically yes.
Batman #25 contains the only Golden Age team-up of the Joker and the Penguin — the two most iconic villains in Batman’s rogues’ gallery, together for the first and only time in the Golden Age of comics. Jack Burnley and Jerry Robinson handled the interior art, and Dick Sprang — one of the defining Batman artists of the era — delivered the cover. The result is a book that reads as a historical artifact and a genuinely great piece of Golden Age storytelling.
White pages in a 1944 book are exceptional. This CGC 4.0 is a sturdy, well-preserved Very Good copy — honest grade for a book that is over eighty years old and surviving remarkably well. An essential piece for any serious Golden Age or Batman collection.
