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Title: BATMAN Nos. 176, 177, 178, 180, 182, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188 * Lot of 10 Comics
Publisher:DC [Indicia: National Periodical Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: 1965-1966
Description: #176: Good (2.0). Spine creases, 2½" split to bottom spine, handling creases, small chip to back cover. Light tan pages. Overstreet: "Joker cover/story."
#177: Good- (1.8). Spine stress, transverse spine tears, spine roll, bottom staple pulled, staple rust, heavy creasing, 2 discolored spots to front cover, soiling, distributor's mark in ink. Cream to light tan pages.
#178: VG/Fine (5.0). Spine ticks, light edgewear, small corner crease. Off-white pages.
#180: Good (2.0). Light spine stress, staples pulled, TAPE REPAIR to curved tear at top corner of front cover, creasing, dampsoiling. Light tan pages.
#182: VG (4.0). Small chip to bottom spine, moderate edgewear, discolored spot below logo from removed sticker. Off-white pages. Overstreet: "Joker cover/story."
#184: VG (4.0). A few spine ticks, small rub near bottom spine, small corner rub, blurry reseller's rubberstamp to logo. Off-white pages.
#185: G/VG (3.0). Small TAPE REPAIR to bottom spine, top spine rubbed, 2 tears up to 1", moderate edge and corner wear, top staple rusty, small ink scribble to margin of one page. Off-white pages, tan edges.
#186: VG- (3.5). Spress to mid-spine, slight spine roll, ½" tear, some creasing, reseller's rubberstamp. Cream pages. Overstreet: "Joker cover/story."
#187: Good (2.0). Restored. Spine and right edge creased, 1" split at bottom spine, a few small debris specks, 2 small PAPER TAPE repairs, covers attached to pages at inside spine with GLUE. Cream to light tan pages. Overstreet: "Joker cover/story."
#188: VG/Fine (5.0). Spine stress, a few crease marks, bottom corner creased, reseller's rubberstamp. Off-white pages.
 
Cover pencils and inks: Dick Sprang, Sheldon Moldoff, Curt Swan, Charles Paris, George Klein, Carmine Infantino, Murphy Anderson, Gil Kane, Win Mortimer, Stan Kaye, and Jim Mooney. Stories and art: Bill Woolfolk, Bill Finger, Dave Wood, Al Schwartz, John Broome, Robert Kanigher, Edmond Hamilton, David Vern, Gardner Fox, Bob Kane, Lew Sayre Schwartz, Sheldon Moldoff, Charles Paris, Jack Burnley, Fred Ray, Win Mortimer, David Vern, Dick Sprang, Joe Giella, Sid Greene, Stan Kaye, and Jim Mooney.Batman's New Look, Cont'd: "Selected to engineer a rescue attempt was editor Julie Schwartz. 'I took over Batman, which I didn't want to do, but they said I had to because the magazine was doing badly,' Schwartz recalled. 'I wouldn't say they were going to kill it, but it certainly was discussed.' Schwartz, with more than two decades of experience, had recently enjoyed a string of successes by introducing new versions of old heroes like the Flash and Green Lantern, so he seemed like the logical choice to revamp Batman.... He abandoned the policy of putting Batman through freakish transformations, he jettisoned all references to aliens and outer space, and he unceremoniously banished... the 'Batman Family,' including Bathound, Bat-Mite, Bat-Girl, and Batwoman. It was as if they had never existed. although Batwoman was briefly revived fifteen years later, only to be rather gratuitously stabbed to death in Detective Comics #485 (August-September 1979)." — Les Daniels, Batman: The Complete History. Chronicle: 1999, pp. 95-96.
 
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