Detective 310... and here's Bat-Mite! Did DC decide that all stretching characters had to wear purple? Elastic Lad (Jimmy Olsen) and the Elongated Man both had purple originally, too!
Detective 320... yep, if it wasn't aliens or Bat-Mite, chances were there'd be bizarre Batman costumes!
Detective 330, and I hope it wasn't too jarring! We're into the "New Look" era now, and we've hit another comics cover cliche; the hero being banished in disgrace!
Detective 340... a decade before Spider-Man was attacked by a Tinkerer-altered Spider-Mobile, Batman was menaced by an Outsider-controlled Batmobile! Of course, you know who the Outsider really was, don't you?
Nice Joe Kubert cover, but I kind of feel it was wasted here, y'know?
Detective 360, and things are looking up for the readers, as we're presented with a mystery to solve!
Detective 370 is one of those "Why the heck is this happening?" covers... and it looks like Carmine Infantino inked by Neal Adams to me! And hoo-hah! A quick check of the Grand Comics Database tells me I've nailed it right on the head!
Next up is Detective 380, with a mystery woman in shadow! I wonder if that's Poison Ivy? Well, looks like I guessed wrong!
Detective 390, and we're heading into the 1970s! You'll note the heavy emphasis on "Batman AND Robin," like we also saw in Batman around this time!
Detective 400 heralds a new era for the Caped Crusader, as Neal Adams steps in to draw way too few stories and covers! This issue, as you can see, introduces The Man-Bat!
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These are the most amazingly comprehensive successive transformations to a single character ever seen in one "By the 10s" post, don't you think? Not one but two complete revisions to Batman's look and style on display.
I agree, RAB... that's one of the reasons I started the "By the 10's," so that we could all see how books evolve over time... this is certainly the most radical changes of any post I've done - or probably ever will do!
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