* 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.

Detective Comics Inc. soon launched a fourth title, Action Comics, and the premiere of which introduced Superman ( a character with which Wheeler-Nicholson had no direct involvement ; editor Vin Sullivan chose to run the feature after Sheldon Mayer rescued it from the slush pile ).

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.

* The present-time scene where Batman / Bruce is cornered by Detective Bullock's SWAT Team adheres to a similar setting from the graphic novel as mentioned above ( the abandoned tenement fire from issue # 3 ).

# " Encyclopedia Brown, The Boy Detective in One Minute Mysteries " ( This episode adapted 6 of the Encyclopedia Brown stories from the books, including Encyclopedia's very first case-" The Case of Natty Nat ", " The Case of the Scattered Cards ", " The Case of the Civil War Sword ", " The Case of the Foot Warmer ", " The Case of the Bitter Drink " and " The Case of the Great Merko ".

# ( 1 ) Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective ( 1963, ISBN 0-525-67200-1, 1982 reissue ISBN 0-553-15724-8 )

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" in Detective Comics # 359 ( January 1967 ).

* Detective Comics # 576-578 ( Batman: Year Two ) ( 1987 )

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He appeared in Detective Comics # 29 ( July 1939 ) and # 30 ( August 1939 ), however these were his only Golden Age appearances.

The first incarnation of the character, Dick Grayson, debuted in Detective Comics # 38 ( April 1940 ).

About a year after Batman's debut, Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger introduced Robin the Boy Wonder in Detective Comics # 38 ( 1940 ).

The Shadow is also referenced in DC's Detective Comics # 446 ( 1975 ), page 4, panel 2: Batman, out of costume and in disguise as an older night janitor, makes a crime fighting acknowledgement, in a thought balloon, to the Shadow.

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.

† The Lamp of God is a long short story or a short novella, originally published in Detective Story magazine in 1935, first collected in The New Adventures of Ellery Queen ( see below ) and published separately ( alone ) as # 23 in the Dell Ten-Cent Editions ( 64 pages ) in 1951.

Also that month, Adams drew his first superhero story, teaming with writer Gardner Fox on the lighthearted backup feature " The Elongated Man " in Detective Comics # 369, the flagship Batman title.

Manga also has its locked-room adherents, such as the series Detective Conan written by Gosho Aoyama, which appears in English as Case Closed ; notable locked-room issues are # 3, # 6, # 7.

* Norman Bartold as The Detective # 1

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

Allan Pinkerton ( 25 August 1819 – 1 July 1884 ) was a Scottish American detective and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.

Catwoman then appears in a series of backup stories in Detective Comics # 759-762 ( August – November 2001 ).

David Soul ( born August 28, 1943 ) is an American-British actor and singer, best known for his role as Detective Kenneth " Hutch " Hutchinson in the television programme Starsky and Hutch ( 1975 – 1979 ).

Carmine Dominick Giovinazzo ( born August 24, 1973 ) is an Italian-American actor and singer, best known for his role as Detective Danny Messer in CSI: NY.

" Educational program of Japan Spaceguard Association using asteroid search ", Spaceguard Detective Agency, Proceedings of Asteroids, Comets, Meteors-ACM 2002. International Conference, 29 July-2 August 2002

* ' Kimi ga Inai Natsu ' ( 27 August 1997 ) ( Detective Conan's 4th Ending theme song )

* The Body of Madelon Spain ( August, 1947 ) Mammoth Detective

In August 1974, O ' Callagan walked into a bar in Omagh, County Tyrone and fatally shot Detective Inspector Peter Flanagan of the Royal Ulster Constabulary's Special Branch.

After this, only three more Bat-Mite stories were published in the pre-Crisis DC Universe: two Bat-Mite / Mr. Mxyzptlk team ups in World's Finest Comics # 152 ( August 1965 ) and # 169 ( September 1967 ) ( which were not edited by Schwartz but by Mort Weisinger ), and " Bat-Mite's New York Adventure " from Detective Comics # 482 ( February – March 1979 ), in which the imp visits the DC Comics offices and insists that he be given his own feature in a Batman comic.

In August 2011, Shaun appeared as Detective Superintendent Stuart Barlow in New Tricks, on BBC1.

Spirit Detective was officially announced by Atari in August 2003.

* Nyssa Raatko: First appearing in Detective Comics # 783 ( August 2003 ), she's the daughter of Ra's al Ghul, born in St. Petersburg in 1775, and a Holocaust survivor.

Detective Superintendent Gradwell retired in August 2009 at the end of his contract and returned to the UK.

* Detective Chimp, in Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog # 4 ( July / August )

In August 2010, Spingola released Predators on the Parkway: a Former Homicide Detective Explores the Colonial Parkway Murders, a 29-page magazine article that detailed his findings.

Jack Kenneth Slipper ( 20 April 1924 – 24 August 2005 ) was a Detective Chief Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police in London.

Mercy first appears in the DC Universe in Detective Comics # 735 ( August 1999 ), during the " No Man's Land " storyline in the Batman titles.