Detective Comics (1937-2011) #35

by Tommy Hickey, Sven Elven (Penciller), Jerry Siegel

A ruby idol causes chaos for Batman!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Batman, Comic Book

58 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 3, 1940

Reviews

[Davidus1]

Circa 1940. A stolen Hindu statue causes chaos as it is linked to several murders. Batman investigates............

[Christopher (Donut)]

Notorious splash page:



About what I expected.
DC has digitized all the back-up stories for some of the early Batman issues of their flagship magazine (just scans, though. The coloring is atrocious.)

I like Golden Age comics, at least in principle. Actually reading them is a bit of a chore.

None of the art is outstanding, but some of it is competent, unlike Bob Kane.

Jerry Siegel's Slam Bradley story was ridiculous.





I bought two more of these during the Batman 80th anniversary sale. Oy!

[Jason]

"The Case of the Ruby Idol"
This starts off as a straight forward story then it proceeds to get silly, you have a guy pretending to be Chinese while hiring mongols and "fake: Hindu half naked men wearing turbans.

[F. P.]

I read the Batman story; the story about D. A. Steve Malone; the short prose story, Mystery With Music; and then the story about Cosmo, The Phantom Of Disguise, although it wasn't a complete story. It just ended, as if DC forgot to scan in the rest of the pages from it lol! I don't know what the hell happened there, but I love the unique lettering used in that comic--the little flourishes on some of the letters, especially the Es.

I liked most of the content in those four stories. The short story was a nice surprise; the way it's written, it could have been written in a voice from today. To me it shows that maybe not that much has changed over the years. People are still just...people.

[TrashKat]

I was a little unimpressed with this issue as well. The mysteries are certainly getting to feel repetitive and the villains are unremarkable. I can see why the police are so adamantly against Batman seeing as he kills the villains in almost every fight!

[Mark Cubillos]

This is where the blue and grey costume takes shape, making Batman much more colorful. I did not care about the other stories and, as pointed out by many, these Golden Age stories have some ugly undertones.

[Sol]

En esta entrega, Batman lucha contra Lenox, un hombre que haría todo por obtener el Kila de rubí.

[Francesco]

Another enjoyable story for Detective Comics, maybe there are some stereotypes about the enemies, but after all, this is a comic from the past century.

[Matt Elliott]

Yellow and brown people are villains but need a bad white man to lead and hire them, who knew