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Herge, the author of Tintin was born on 22 May 1907 in Etterbeck, Belgium. He developed a passion for art during his school years between 1914 and 1918 in occupied Brussels and he used to fill his schoolbooks with random sketches of the German invaders. He enrolled in the Boy Scouts while studying at college and contributed various illustrations to Scouting magazines.
By 1925 he was fortunate enough to be offered a position at the Catholic newspaper Le XXe Siecle. Here, under the guidance of editor Norbert Wallez, his first cartoon series – Totor – was published, followed by a variety of pieces for a children’s supplement.
Batman was first mentioned in Detective Comic,#26 in 1939 and acquired his sidekick, Robin, in 1940, which is also the year in which the first Batman comic was published. The title was drawn by Bob Kane and written by Bill Fingers.
Items relating to the original character are highly prized. His debut comic appearance is still [...]