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Title: DETECTIVE COMICS No. 60
Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.]
Date Published: February, 1942
Description: CGC certified: Good+ (2.5). Purple label: Restored (C-2). Off-white pages. Grader notes: "Tape cover; tape interior cover; 6 staple(s) added after manufacturing; creasing to cover; pieces added right center front cover C-2; small amount of color touch on right center front cover; tears to cover." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.
 
CGC Census: 46 graded copies (42 Universal, 4 Restored).
 
GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A restored 4.0 (SA) sold for $432 in 11/19. 
 
For comparison purposes, here are recent Universal sales: A 3.0 sold for $456 in 8/20; a 4.0 sold for $1900 in 2/23.
 
Credits: Cover: Fred Ray and Jerry Robinson (Jerry Robinson inks). Scripts: Jack Schiff, Ed Moore, Jack Lehti, Mort Weisinger? Art: Bob Kane (Jerry Robinson and George Roussos inks), Ed Moore, Pierce Rice, Jack Lehti (Charles Paris inks), Cliff Young, Lee Harris, Howard Sherman. Overstreet: "Joker app. (2nd in Detective)."Bat-cyclopedia: "In February 1942 Batman and Robin match wits with the JOKER.... [aka] the Ace of Knaves, the Arch Buffoon of Banditry, the Bandit Buffoon, the Brazen Buffoon, the Brazen Buffoon of Crime, the Burglar Buffoon, the Clown of Crime, the Clown-Prince of Crime, the Comic of Crime, the Crafty Clown of Crime, the Crime Clown, the Crime Jester, the Cunning Crime King, the Fearsome Fakir, the Fiendish Funster, the Funny Man of Felony, the Grim Jester, the Grinning Gargoyle of Greed, the Harlequin of Crime, the Harlequin of Hate, the Hilarious Harlequin, the Hoodlum Harlequin, the Jaunty Jester, the Jeering Jackanapes, the Jeering Jester of Crime, the Jester of Crime, the Jocund Jack of all Crimes, the King of Jesters, the Leonardo of the Larcenous Laugh, the Mad Buffoon, the Mad Maestro of Mirth, the Madman of Mirth, the Mad Master of Mirth, the Mad Merrymaker, the Malevolent Mime, the Malicious Mountebank, the Man of a Thousand False Fronts, the Master of Mockery, the Mephistopheles of Mirth, the Mirthful Menace, the Mirthful Mountebank, the Mocking Mountebank, and the Prince of Pranksters." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 116, 371.
 
Name Defame: Why the plethora of increasingly absurd nicknames? Who knows, maybe DC's editors thought little kids would get a kick out the Joker's myriad monikers. Modern DC's gatekeepers clearly didn't have young readers in mind when they saddled the Joker's erstwhile paramour Harley Quinn with a salacious sobriquet in Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay #12 (2018), in which the Clown-Princess of Crime dubs herself "Yours truly, Insane Clown P*ssy!"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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