Status Updates From The Batman Chronicles, Vol. 1

men will literally leave the joker to die when he’s killed like five people but will make sure he’s resuscitated after being beaten to death by his son for killing his other two sons (i fucking hate some of the newer batman Moral Issues if you can’t tell) (the joker did not die here. batman stabbed him in the chest and the cops called an ambulance and he’s still alive that’s how the book ends)

i was so caught up in the joy of having golden age batman comics that i forgot i lived in a world where this is from 1940 and is full of the era accurate casual racism

flipped through to see which major villains show up (just the joker and hugo strange i think) and like i knew this had The First Ever issue with robin i’ve been thinking alfred was introduced before him but no i just looked it up and he wasn’t created until 1943??? this goes up to batman no. 1 alfred shows up for the first time in batman no. 16

november 1939 issue has his origin story finally…… no alfred yet though i’m assuming he’ll show up before dick does

i really was not expecting the vampires and werewolves but you know what. SO glad it was there because on the last page of this issue there’s a panel of batman melting a silver statue with a candle to make silver bullets. the melting point of pure silver is 972degC. yes this is from october 1939 yes i am still criticizing it it’s so fucking funny.

finished the first one. can’t believe i forgot that golden age batman didn’t have the strict no killing rule so he just casually killed at Least three people. also i am loving this art he is so SHAPED it’s glorious.

just found this and a few collections for marvel heroes that we apparently have……. was someone gonna tell me that my dad bought physical copies of the first published batman AND spider-man comics or was i just supposed to find out myself. this one is from 1939-1940 i cannot believe we have this.