From Batman: "The Case of the City of Terror" by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Jerry Robinson and George Roussos, Detective Comics #43 (September 1940)
Sometimes a guy doesn't want to tell you what he just ate and you gotta take matters into your own fists to get the evidence out. (Any Yanks having Thanksgiving flashbacks right now?)
Now, MORE violence!
From Sandman: "Case of the Kidnapped Heiress" by Gardner Fox and Creig Flessel, Adventure Comics #54 (September 1940)
Yeah, my thirst for blood is satiated. That DID do it.
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Still less disastrous than when he was hired to talk to young schoolgirls about the changes their bodies were about to go through. ("Tell me, do you bleed? You will.")