Detective Comics
Detective Comics is an American comic book series published by DC Comics. The first volume, published from 1937 to 2011 (and later continued in 2016), is best known for introducing the superhero Batman in "Detective Comics" #27 (cover dated May 1939).
Batmania
With its first issue cited in Summer 1965 by "the father of comics fandom" Jerry Bails as one of the "major events" in comics fandom, Schelly concurs 30+ years later, writing that: