* 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics # 27 ; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.

Four comic books to have sold for over $ 1 million USD as of December 2010, including two examples of Action Comics No. 1, the first appearance of Superman, both sold privately through online dealer ComicConnect. com in 2010, and Detective Comics No. 27, the first appearance of Batman, via public auction.

The initials " DC " came from the company's popular series Detective Comics, which featured Batman's debut and subsequently became part of the company's name.

Wheeler-Nicholson's third and final title, Detective Comics, advertised with a cover illustration dated December 1936, eventually premiered three months late with a March 1937 cover date.

In 1937, in debt to printing-plant owner and magazine distributor Harry Donenfeld — who also published pulp magazines and operated as a principal in the magazine distributorship Independent News — Wheeler-Nicholson was compelled to take Donenfeld on as a partner in order to publish Detective Comics # 1.

Detective Comics, Inc. was formed, with Wheeler-Nicholson and Jack S. Liebowitz, Donenfeld's accountant, listed as owners.

Shortly afterward, Detective Comics Inc. purchased the remains of National Allied, also known as Nicholson Publishing, at a bankruptcy auction.

National Allied Publications soon merged with Detective Comics Inc. to form National Comics, which in 1944 absorbed an affiliated concern, Max Gaines's and Liebowitz's All-American Publications.

At that point, " Liebowitz promptly orchestrated the merger of All-American and Detective Comics into National Comics ... Next he took charge of organizing National Comics, self-distributorship Independent News, and their affiliated firms into a single corporate entity, National Periodical Publications ".

A handful of the most popular superhero-titles ( most notably Action Comics and Detective Comics, the medium's two longest-running titles ) continued publication.

The letters " DC " stood for Detective Comics, the name of Batman's flagship title.

* March – The first issue of Detective Comics is published in the United States.

Twenty-seven issues later, Detective Comics introduces Batman.

* Detective Comics # 558

Debuting as a writer in the pages of Detective Comics, Fox " intermittently contributed tales to nearly every book in the DC lineup during the Golden Age.

Fox's earliest stories for DC Comics featured Speed Saunders ( with art by Creig Flessel and, later, Fred Guardineer ) beginning at least with Detective Comics # 4.

Though he continued to script for National / Detective Comics, Inc., Fox became the head writer for All-American.

By All Star Comics # 24, a real-world schism between National Comics and All-American Publications — a nominally independent company run by Charlie Gaines and Jack Liebowitz — had occurred, which resulted in the Detective Comics, Inc heroes being removed from the title.

Eight months later, National Comics bought out Charlie Gaines ' share of All-American and the two companies merged to form Detective Comics, Inc.

Pinkerton Government Services, Inc., founded as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, usually shortened to the Pinkertons, is a private security guard and detective agency established in the U. S. by Allan Pinkerton in 1850 and currently a subsidiary of Securitas AB.

In 1939, National Comics ( then known as Detective Comics, Inc .; it did not use the name National until 1946 ) had filed suit against Fox Feature Syndicate for their Superman-like hero Wonder Man, and filed against Fawcett the following year for their Master Man character.

Men from the Third Detective District, Eighteenth Precinct, had the longest, the most tedious, job.

( Detective Pearson, Eighteenth Precinct, thought for a time he might be on to something.

Secret Grand Jury indictments were returned against the pair last week, Detective Murray Logan reported.

The Phoenix arrest culminates more than a year's investigation by Detective William Taylor and other officers.

* Major characters like Commissioner Loeb, Detective Flass and Carmine ' The Roman ' Falcone who are featured prominently in Batman Begins.

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Detective fiction is a sub-genre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator ( often a detective ), either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder.

The period of the 1920s and 1930s is generally referred to as the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.

Likewise Kogoro Mori of Detective Conan got that kind of unflattering reputation.

Several authors have attempted to set forth a sort of list of “ Detective Commandments ” for prospective authors of the genre.

David Janssen ( March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980 ) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive ( 1963 – 1967 ), the starring role in the 1950s hit detective series Richard Diamond, Private Detective ( 1957 – 60 ), and as Harry Orwell on Harry O.

On May 9, during a formal interview by Detective Bryn Ridge, Echols mentioned that one of the victims had wounds to the genitals, and this was felt to be incriminating knowledge.

On May 6, 1993 ( the day the murder victims were found ), Hutcheson took a polygraph exam by Detective Don Bray at the Marion Police Department to determine if she had stolen money from her West Memphis employer.

The author Leveritt argues that Echols ' information may have come from police leaks, such as Detective Gitchell's comments to Mark Byers, that then circulated amongst the local public.

He was soon promoted to Detective, and assumed his current role.

A massive manhunt led by the Baldwin Felts Detective Agency soon followed the tragedy.

On the crime-drama Law & Order, in the season-two opening episode " Confession ," Detective Mike Logan states that his plans for the evening are to review case notes with his ( soon to be killed ) partner, Max Greevy, and then, he says, " I'm going frugging with Patsy Kelley.

They are soon joined by Batman and Detective Chimp, the latter beginning to hit on her before being combined with a bee by B ' wana Beast's powers to help them escape, also helping regain her totem.

He soon graduated to writer / script editor of several other adventure-mystery series, like the anthological Detective, The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling and Peter Cushing's 1965 Sherlock Holmes vehicle.

The Cahill brothers soon turned to armed robbery, and by the early 1970s Gardai at the Dublin Central Detective Unit ( CDU ) had identified the Cahill brothers as major criminals, when they teamed up with the notorious Dunne gang in Crumlin to rob security vans escorting cash from banks.

She soon crosses paths with Detective Clyde Rawlins, Tricia's father, who has taken upon himself to avenge his daughter's death despite the objections of his superiors and colleagues.

Debuting in the pages of Detective Comics # 64 ( the issue # 65's cover shows Batman presenting the gang but they appeared first in the issue before ) cover-dated June 1942, the team became extremely popular, also appearing in World's Finest Comics (# 8-41, 1942-1949 ) and were then soon spun off into their own title, launching with a ' Winter 1942 ' date.

Originally founded on the impulse given by Enchantress, Ragman and Detective Chimp to get rid of the menace that the Spectre started to represent for all the magic of the Universe it soon grew in number.