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Title: BATMAN Nos. 116, 117, 118, 119, 120 * Lot of 5 Comics
Publisher:DC [Indicia: National Comics Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: 1958
Description: #116: Good- (1.8). Spine stress, 2" spine split, spine ends chipped, mild spine roll, some edge and corner chips, creasing, staples pulled, some rust to staples. Light tan pages.
#117: Good (2.0). Restored. Mild spine roll, spine reinforced with TAPE, spine COLOR TOUCHED, moderate creasing and edgewear, ½x1" abraded chip to back cover. Light tan pages.
#118: Good (2.0). Restored. Spine stress, spine roll, COLOR TOUCHES to black cover, creasing, edgewear, short tears, a few rubs, cover detached at bottom staple, top staple pulled. Cream to off-white pages.
#119: Good+ (2.5). Spine stress, 1" spine split, staples pulled, small corner chip, spine nicks, edgewear, creasing, small abrasions to back cover. Cream to light tan pages.
#120: G/VG (3.0). Spine stress, small chips to spine ends, slight staple pull, a few small chips to top left front cover, edgewear, creases, tiny corner chip to back cover. Light tan pages.
 
Cover pencils and inks: Sheldon Moldoff, Curt Swan, Stan Kaye, and Ray Burnley. Stories and art: Bill Finger, Arnold Drake, Jack Schiff, Bob Kane, Ray Burnley, Sheldon Moldoff, Charles Paris, Bob Oksner, and George Roussos.Batman of 1000 Faces: "Bat-whimsy was now in full flourish: the Dynamic Duo met Mogo the Bat-Ape, and Batman himself began to undergo the kind of freakish transformations that typified superhero comics of the time. Either by dint of magic or mysterious 'science-rays,' individual issues saw the Caped Crusader transmogrified into a Bat-Baby, Bat-Robot, Bat-Genie, Bat-Alien, Bat-Merman, Bat-Mummy, Bat-Phantom, Bat-Giant, Bat-Rip Van Winkle, or Bat-Monster." — Glen Weldon, The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture. Simon & Schuster: 2016, pp. 61-62.
 
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