He has been different things in different times. Further proven by the wide variety and range of mediums he has been adapted into over 80 years and counting. To put it simply, he has never gone out of style. The Batman mythos has expanded into virtually every medium in the decades since the character's debut, and there's a good argument to be made for Batman being the most critically and culturally successful superhero in history. Over time, many of his enemies began to be written as dark reflections of certain aspects of Batman's personality, such as The Joker with overall sanity, Two-Face with duality and identity, Scarecrow with the use of fear, etc. Freeze are recognizable even to those with only the most basic knowledge of comics. While his Arch-Enemy, The Joker, is the most recognizable, villains such as Harley Quinn, Two-Face, The Penguin, The Riddler, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Bane, The Scarecrow, and Mr. Many of them are up there with the Dark Knight himself in terms of pop culture relevance and recognition.
In addition to this appealing and ( for its time) unique origin story, Batman has an iconic supporting cast and, more crucially, the single largest and most iconic Rogues Gallery in all of comic book history, as well as one of the most beloved.
Donning a costume with a bat motif to strike fear into criminals and armed with his keen intellect and arsenal of crime-fighting gadgetry, Bruce protects the streets of Gotham as "The Batman" at night while pretending to be a clueless playboy billionaire by day. When he felt he was ready, Bruce returned to his beloved Gotham City, intent on removing the criminal element that had overrun the city in his absence. Swearing vengeance against all criminals and vowing never to take a life, Bruce used his parents' vast fortune to travel the world and hone his fighting abilities and detective skills. One half of The Dynamic Duo.Ĭreated by Bob Kane and Bill Finger (who until 2015 was uncredited note The New '10s led to DC finally negotiating official acknowledgment for Finger who is now considered the major creative force of the character), Batman is also one of the greatest Trope Makers and Trope Codifiers in not just comics, but all visual media one of the oldest superheroes still in print - having debuted in Detective Comics #27 (May 1939) - Batman is one of the three best-known superheroes ever (alongside Superman and Spider-Man), one of the flagships of DC Comics and one of the most popular comic book characters ever created.Īt the age of eight, billionaire heir Bruce Wayne witnessed the murder of his parents at the hands of a mugger. Batman: The Animated Series, " Nothing to Fear", written by Henry T.
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