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Real Fact Comics #5
DC ⋅ 1946
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Real Fact Comics #5
 
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Interior story featuring Bob Kane's fictional account of how Batman was created

Detective Comics #241
DC ⋅ 1957
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Detective Comics #241
 
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Iconic story 'The Rainbow Batman'

Star-Spangled War Stories #90
DC ⋅ 1960
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Star-Spangled War Stories #90
 
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Classic story titled "The War That Time Forgot" depicting modern warfare vs dinosaurs

Green Lantern #8
DC ⋅ 1961
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Green Lantern #8
 
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Story set in 5700 A.D. with Hal Jordan assuming the identity of Pol Manning

Justice League of America #22
DC ⋅ 1963
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Justice League of America #22
 
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"Crisis on Earth" part 2

Justice League of America #46
DC ⋅ 1966
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Justice League of America #46
 
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1st appearance of the Sandman, Wesley Dodds in the Silver Age

1st appearance of the Anti-Matter Man, an entity of extreme power from Qward

Classic Story: Crisis Between Earth-One and Earth-Two

Detective Comics #475
DC ⋅ 1978
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Detective Comics #475
 
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Classic story titled "The Laughing Fish"

Detective Comics #476
DC ⋅ 1978
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Detective Comics #476
 
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Classic story titled "The Sign of the Joker"

Watchmen #1
DC ⋅ 1986
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Watchmen #1
 
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Premiere issue of a twelve-issue series that explores the dark side of superheroes from a realistic, flawed perspective

1st appearance of Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan, Ozymandias, Silk Spectre, The Comedian and Night Owl

Alan Moore based his characters off of DC's newly acquired Charlton heroes: the Question, Captain Atom, Thunderbolt, Nightshade, the Peacemaker and Blue Beetle

[July 2023 - Warner Bros. announced an animated Watchmen feature is in development]

Batman Annual #11
DC ⋅ 1987
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Batman Annual #11
 
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Written by Alan Moore

Legion of Super-Heroes #37
DC ⋅ 1987
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Legion of Super-Heroes #37
 
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"Death of Superboy" part 1

Legion of Super-Heroes #38
DC ⋅ 1987
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Legion of Super-Heroes #38
 
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"Death of Superboy" part 2

Animal Man #5
DC ⋅ 1988
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Animal Man #5
 
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1st appearance of Crafty the Coyote, a creature that walks like a man and is painfully resurrected every time it is killed, inspired by Wile E. Coyote

Nominated for the Best Single Issue Eisner Award and won the 1989 Squiddy Award for Favorite Single Issue of Any Series - the Squiddys were annual fan awards given out from 1987 thru 2004 by the participants in the popular rec.arts.comics Usenet newsgroup, one of the very earliest online fan groups

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