BATMAN #112

Cover shows overall yellowing/foxing to the background, with a noticeable brown stain along the lower left edge and spine area. There is a diagonal crease running through the lower right portion of the cover, and the top edge shows minor wear with slight corner softness. Spine appears to have some stress but no major splits visible; the book is in a protective sleeve which makes fine detail assessment difficult. Interior and back cover were not assessed.

Batman #112, cover-dated December 1957, presents "The Rainbow Batman," a story in which Batman dons a series of differently colored costumes across a single adventure — an oddity conceived to explain away a run of color variations on earlier covers and to give Robin, temporarily unable to identify his partner, a plot device. The story is credited to Bill Finger, with art by Sheldon Moldoff working in the Bob Kane shop under the Kane byline, and the cover has become one of the most reproduced single images from the pre-New Look Batman era, regularly reprinted in retrospectives and referenced in later comics and popular culture.

Demand for the issue is driven almost entirely by the cover's fame rather than any first appearance or origin content. The certified population is substantial for a book of this vintage — 117 Universal copies on census — with steady turnover across the mid and low grades, reflected in consistent FMV data from 3.0 through 8.0. High-grade material is scarce by comparison, with only a handful of copies above 8.5 and no completed sale recorded at the top of the census, indicating that collectors chasing pristine copies of this specific cover compete for very few surviving examples.

The book trades as a mid-tier Silver Age Batman collectible: readily available and affordably priced in low and mid grades for readers and cover-image collectors, but disproportionately expensive relative to its story content once a buyer moves into near-mint territory, where scarcity rather than narrative importance sets the price. It suits Batman cover-run completists, Silver Age type-collectors building a representative high-grade set, and buyers drawn specifically to one of the era's most visually memorable single images.