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Detective Comics, May 1939: The Amazing and Unique Adventures of the Batman, cover
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Batman is one of the longest-running comic series in the world, in continuous publication since 1939. When it made its debut, it was unique in featuring a hero who was an ordinary man without…

Contributor:

Milton "Bill" Finger, Bob Kane

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Date:

1939

Subjects:

Comics, Animation, Humor, Crime

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Print & Book Culture
Cover page of comic featuring man with bat wings outstretched swinging through the air over buildings with a villain under his arm as two detectives watch, and heading "Detective Comics" across the top.
The Hanging of Jud Süss
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Joseph ben Issachar Süsskind Oppenheimer was a financier and court Jew who served as adviser to Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg. Economic reforms enacted by Karl Alexander (and informed by…

Contributor:

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot, Lucas Conrad Pfandzelt

Places:

Stuttgart, Kingdom of Prussia (Stuttgart, Germany)

Date:

1738

Subjects:

Art, Print, Crime, Death, Antisemitism

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Print in two panels, with miniature portraits of two men at top of page, and German text below each panel: the top panel of procession of many people through city square, and the bottom panel of large crowd of people outdoors around a gallows on a tower.