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Title: BATMAN No. 41
Publisher:DC [Indicia: National Comics Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: June-July 1947
Description: CGC certified: Good+ (2.5). Green label: Qualified. Off-white to white pages. Grader notes: "Detached cover; married cover; tape cover; tape residue interior; tape spine; multiple tear cover; spine splits to cover; writing on cover." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.
 
CGC Census: 223 graded copies (199 Universal, 11 Qualified, 13 Restored).
 
GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A qualified 0.5 (wrong back cover) sold for $205 in 9/23.
 
For comparison purposes, here are recent Universal sales: A 2.5 sold for $290 in 9/23; a 1.8 sold for $270 in 3/22.
 
Credits: Cover: Jim Mooney. Scripts: Edmond Hamilton (?) and Gardner Fox (?). Art: Jim Mooney. Overstreet: "1st sci-fi cover/story in Batman; Penguin app."Bat-cyclopedia: "In June-July 1947 Batman and Robin battle the PENGUIN; apprehend the "MOOSE" MILLER gang; and journey to Mars for an encounter with the Martian villain SAX GOLA." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, p. 119.
 
Details: The Penguin appears to have gotten into a new line of business, having teamed up with one Mr. Buzzard to open up the Penguin and Buzzard Bird Store. Under the pretext of generating publicity, the Penguin gifts exotic birds to a number of rich Gotham City notables. Little do the recipients know, however, that each birdcage is booby-trapped, and the Penguin aims to use these traps in a string of robberies. By setting off a blinding birdcage flare bomb on Wallace Norton's yacht, for instance, the Penguin attempts to rob all the passengers aboard. He is stopped by Batman and Robin, however, after they make the connection between the birds and his recent crimes.The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION comprises over 40,000 comic books, including a copy of every single DC comic published for retail sale from 1934 to 2014. The collection was amassed by British music producer Ian Levine over the course of several decades, and it's been hailed as the single greatest collecting accomplishment in comic book history. This collection served as the basis for former DC Comics president Paul Levitz's monumental book 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking, published by Taschen in 2017. PBA is proud to present this epic collection in a series of themed sales over the next two years. To join the DC Universe Collection notifications list, contact pba@pbagalleries.com.
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