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Since his creation, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective; a planet-hopping gadabout; a campy Pop-art sensation; a pointy-eared master spy; and a grim and gritty ninja of the urban night. For more than three quarters of a century, he has cycled from a figure of darkness to one of lightness and back again; hes a bat-shaped Rorschach inkblot who takes on the various meanings our changing culture projects onto him. How we perceive Batmans character, whether hes delivering dire threats in a raspy Christian Bale growl or trading blithely homoerotic double-entendres with partner Robin on the comics page, speaks to who we are and how we wish to be seen by the world. Its this endlessly mutable quality that has made him so enduring.
And its Batmans fundamental nerdinesshis gadgets, his obsession, his oath, even his lack of superpowersthat uniquely resonates with his fans who feel a fiercely protective love for the character. Today, fueled by the internet, that breed of passion for elements of popular culture is everywhere. Which is what makes Batman the perfect lens through which to understand geek culture, its current popularity, and social significance.
In The Caped Crusade, with humor and insight, Glen Weldon, book critic for NPR and author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography, lays out Batmans seventy-eight-year cultural history and shows how he has helped make us who we are today and why his legacy remains so strong.
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(1) Detective Comics #27: The very first glimpse we get of the guy and already he looks pissed.
(2) The first time we see Batmans origin. It, um, wont be the last. But modern retellings invariably discard this candlelit oath-making bit of business, likely deeming it hokey. Which: sure it is. But to skip it does a grave disservice; that oath is who Batman is.
(3) For the very first time, the Joker strikes.
(4) Thirty-eight years after that gruesome first kill, the Englehart/Rogers/Austin team would pay fannish homage to itand to a lot of Batmans historyduring their acclaimed run.
(5) Enter: the pixie-booted prepubescent! Brought on board just a year after Batmans first appearance to lighten the mood, Robin doubled sales and touched off a vogue for kid sidekicks. But!
(6) (Detail of previous photo.) For decades, Robins steadfast appearance at Batmans side has invited snide jokes and innuendo. Perhaps this was inevitable, even fated. Some unfortunate kerning in his introductory scroll (...takes under his protecting mantle GUYS WHERES THE SPACE BETWEEN AN AND ALLY AW GEEZ STOP THE DAMN PRESSES) couldnt have helped matters.
(7) Robins chirpy presence made for a sunnier Batman. His rogues gallery felt it too: suddenly mass-murdering became pass and petty larceny was au courant. Take this goon: Joe Coyne, the Penny Plunderer, and his crime symbol. In Gothams underworld, ya gotta have a gimmick.
(8) In the 50s, Batmans supporting cast swelled with masked hangers-on. First came Ace, the Bat-Hound...
(9) Aprs dog, le dluge: Next came Batwoman (seen here stuffing her charm-bracelet handcuffs, lipstick telescope, and tear-gas perfume into her sensible Bat-purse), Bat-Girl, Bat-Mite, and, perhaps most awesomely, Mogo the Bat-Ape.
(10) Batmans look got tweaked in the early 1960s, but he remained a duly deputized do-gooder at home in broad daylight. These are the comics that the creators of the TV series used as grist for their groovy, Pop Art mill. Compare to...
(11) This was Batman, five years later. What happened in between? Adam West is what happened. Denny ONeil and Neal Adams ditched anything that would remind fans of the TV series and transformed Batman from a superheroic cipher into an obsessed, angry loner.
(12) Batman: The Dark Knight Returns : In Frank Millers steroidal saga, decades of Bat-canon got amped up: His Caped Crusader shattered femurs, his Batmobile was a tankand the bat that flew in Bruce Waynes open window, inspiring his Batman identity? This time it came with property damage.
(13) (From the same issue.) This is the first real glimpse Miller gives us of his Batman, looking iconic, if juiced, in the familiar blue and gray. Millers use of splash pages like this one would, like everything else about The Dark Knight Returns , influence how superhero comics were made for many years.
(14) In Batman: Year One, Miller reminded readers that Batman was more than a fat wallet, some pointy ears, and an attitude. Hes about striking fearand to do that, he needed a flair for the dramatic.
(15) Nineteen eighty-eight was a tough year for Batman. The fans appetite for grim-and-gritty superheroes, whetted by The Dark Knight Returns, became ravenous. In sequences of surprisingly grisly on-panel violence, the Bat-family shrank. First, Barbara (Batgirl) Gordon, paralyzed by the Jokers bullet.
(16) Soon after, readers were invited to call in to determine whether young Jason Todd (Robin II) lived through his brutal beating by the Joker. By a margin of just seventy-two votes, the little twerp bought it, further darkening the Dark Knight.
(17) Planetary/Batman: Night on Earth : A group of superpowered investigators meet alternate-universe iterations of Batman. The gangs all here: Original-Recipe Bat-Man, ONeil/Adamss Caped Crusader, Frank Millers Dark Knight, andin a surprising move that proved surprisingly movingthe Adam West Batman.
(18) Im already dead, arent I? In a harrowing and unprecedented sequence, the New 52 Batman finds himself overmatched, and he literally sinks into despair.
ALSO BY GLEN WELDON
Superman: The Unauthorized Biography
Simon & Schuster
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Copyright 2016 by Glen Weldon
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