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<p>the Wayne family butler, was introduced in issue #16 (April-May 1943). In 2021, a near mint issue of Batman #1 was sold for over $2.2 million at <a href="page.php?w=Heritage_Auctions">Heritage Auctions</a>, setting a record for the most expensive Batman comic sold.  Editor <a href="page.php?w=Whitney_Ellsworth">Whitney Ellsworth</a> assigned a Batman story to artist <a href="page.php?w=Dick_Sprang">Dick Sprang</a> in 1941. Anticipating that Bob Kane would be drafted to serve in <a href="page.php?w=World_War_II">World War II</a>, DC inventoried</p><p>
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