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''Detective Comics'' is an American Comic Book published monthly by DC Comics since 1937, best-known for introducing the iconic Fictional Character Batman . It is, along with '' Action Comics '', the book that launched with the debut of Superman , one of the Medium 's signature series, and the source of its company's name. With 842 monthly issues published as of April 2007, it is the longest continuously published comic book in the United States.''Action Comics'' has amassed more individual issues due to a period in the 1980s during which it was published weekly, and the record-holder for most issues published is Dell Comics '' Four Color '' series, which amassed more than 1,300 issues over a 23-year run. PUBLICATION HISTORY .]] ''Detective Comics'' was the final publication of the entrepreneur Major '' #1 (Feb. 1935), colloquially called ''New Fun Comics'' #1 and the first such early comic book to contain all-original content, rather than a mix of Newspaper Comic Strips and comic-strip-style new material. His second effort, ''New Comics'' #1, would be retitled twice to become '' Adventure Comics '', another seminal series that ran for decades until issue #503 in 1983. The third and final title published under his aegis would be ''Detective Comics'', advertised with a cover illustration dated Dec. 1936, but eventually premiering three months late, with a March 1937 cover date. In 1937, however, Wheeler-Nicholson was in debt to printing-plant owner and magazine distributor Harry Donenfeld , who was as well a Pulp-magazine Publisher and a principal in the magazine distributorship Independent News. Wheeler-Nicholson took Donenfeld on as a partner in order to publish ''Detective Comics'' #1 through the newly formed Detective Comics, Inc., with Wheeler-Nicholson and Jack S. Liebowitz , Donenfeld's Accountant , listed as owners. Wheeler-Nicholson was forced out a year later. Originally an Anthology comic, in the manner of the times, ''Detective Comics'' #1 (March 1937) featured stories in the " Hard-boiled Detective " genre popular, with such stars as Ching Lung (a Fu Manchu -style " Yellow Peril " villain), Slam Bradley (created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster before their character ''Superman'' saw print two years later), and Speed Saunders , among others. Its first editor, Vin Sullivan , also drew the debut issue's cover. Batman ''Detective Comics'' #27 (May 1939) featured the First Appearance of Batman (as "The Bat-Man"). That Superhero would eventually become the star of the title, the cover logo of which is often written as "Detective Comics featuring Batman". Issue #38 (April 1940) introduced Batman's Sidekick Robin (billed as "The Sensational Character Find of 1940" on the cover). Robin's appearance and the subsequent increase in sales of the book soon led to the trend of superheroes and young sidekicks that characterize the era fans and historians call the Golden Age Of Comic Books . In addition to the Batman stories, the comic also had numerous back up strips such as " Martian Manhunter " which was introduced in ''Detective Comics'' #225. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the magazine adopted the expanded format used by the cancelled ''", " The Human Target " and the anthology called "Tales of Gotham City", which featured the stories of the ordinary people of Gotham City . AWARDS The " Manhunter " series that ran as a backup in "Detective Comics" from 1973 to 1974 won the Shazam Award for Best Individual Short Story (Dramatic) in 1974 for "Cathedral Perilous" in issue 441 (with Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson ). Character debuts ''DETECTIVE COMICS'' REPRINT COLLECTIONS
''Detective Comics'' stories also appear in other Batman collections. FOOTNOTES REFERENCES
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