27 Bat-Facts To Read At Any Bat-Time on This Bat-Website
What is it about Batman that has continue to capture our imaginations since his debut in Detective Comics in 1939? Is it his malleability? Working successfully as both a character of high camp or high drama? Is it the fact that his stories successfully scale in scope from the page, to television screens, to giant movie screens? Either way, what once began as primarily a rip-off of other “dark and gritty” pulp detectives would go on to turn into one of the greatest media empires we've ever seen before or since.
When you have a legacy like Batman's, you'll end up with a utility belt full of interesting stories and facts from the hundreds of thousands of creators now who have helped bring the Dark Knight to life. Here are some of our favorite facts from multiple generations of attempts to bring Batman to the screen… sometimes successfully, sometimes less so!
Hush / Riddler Mash-Up
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Where is Martha Wayne?
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A new version of Bane?
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Catwoman's Sexuality
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Arkham Asylum
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Flooded Gotham in The Batman
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Catwoman & Batman
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The Batman's Story Origin
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The Penguin’s Makeup
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The Catwoman Suit Was Maybe Worse Than Batman's
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Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman Casting
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Ben Affleck
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What's with this Dark Riddler?
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Penguin's Famous Cigarette
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The Joker in 'The Batman'
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Catwoman
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Jack Nicholson
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Michael Keaton as Batman
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Harley Quinn
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Buying the Batmobile
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Batman The Killer?
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Gotham PD
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Rorschach Journal
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The Batman Suit is Awful
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The Dark Knight
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The Dark Knight
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Batman & Robin
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