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Cover: Win Mortimer
Detective Comics #197
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The League Against Batman!", a cunning new foe emerges, determined to sabotage every effort by the public to celebrate Batman and Robin. Written by David Vern and illustrated by Dick Sprang, with inks by Charles Paris, this 1953 classic captures the tension of a city divided, as the Dark Knight faces a campaign of defiance unlike any he’s encountered. The cover, by Win Mortimer, perfectly captures the menace of the moment.
Contains 4 stories
The League Against Batman!
Batman [Bruce Wayne]Robin [Dick Grayson]Commissioner James GordonRolf Baglund (sculptor)Burke (Policeman)Thomson (Policeman)The Wrecker [Dwight Forrow] (villain, introduction, writer)Doug Forrow (villain, Dwight's brother)
Million-to-One Miller!
Roy Raymond
License for a Robot!
Robotman
Pow-Wow Smith Television Star!
Pow-Wow Smith
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Raw (Good) $127
CGC 9.2 · 1 in census $2,455
CGC 9.0 none in existence
CGC 8.5 · 2 in census $1,197
CGC 8.0 · 2 in census $746
CGC 7.5 · 4 in census $556*
CGC 7.0 · 2 in census $423
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CGC 6.5 none in existence
CGC 6.0 · 6 in census $301
CGC 5.5 · 7 in census $268
CGC 5.0 · 1 in census $268*
CGC 4.5 · 6 in census $224
CGC 4.0 · 5 in census $200
CGC 3.5 · 1 in census $179*
CGC 3.0 · 5 in census $162
CGC 2.5 · 4 in census $122
CGC 2.0 · 1 in census $114*
CGC 1.5 none in existence
CGC 1.0 none in existence
CGC 0.5 · 2 in census $59*
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GD $140 GD $165 VG $198.4 CGC 6 $439.95 CGC 8.5 $1810 Detective Comics #197 (1953) Golden Age Batman Ajax Toy Co Cover $175 MEXICAN DETECTIVE COMICS #197 BOB KANE BATMAN 1954 NOVARO MEXICO HIGH GRADE RARE $499.99 Detective Comics 197 DC Comics Golden Age Batman 1953 $545
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Reprinted in Batman #7 (1954), Batman #218 (1970), World's Finest Comics #223 (1974), Super Adventure #74 (1976), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus #9 (2021)
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