Before the Batmobile

This panel from Detective Comics No. 30, August 1939, is the first instance of Batman's automobile being identified as anything other than a standard product of Detroit. We learn that the Batman drives a "specially built high-powered auto". Except for the unusually long hood, it looks very much like a 1937 Ford Coupe (especially in the grill treatment).




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